diff --git a/errortype.go b/errortype.go
index 5a23171..73ff059 100644
--- a/errortype.go
+++ b/errortype.go
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package sentry
 
 import "strings"
 
-// ErrType represents errors which can be thrown by the sentry client.
+// ErrType represents an error which may contain hierarchical error information.
 type ErrType string
 
 // IsInstance will tell you whether a given error is an instance
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ func (e ErrType) IsInstance(err error) bool {
 	return strings.Contains(err.Error(), string(e))
 }
 
+// Unwrap will unwrap this error and return the underlying error which caused
+// it to be triggered.
+func (e ErrType) Unwrap() error {
+	return nil
+}
+
 // Error gets the error message for this ErrType
 func (e ErrType) Error() string {
 	return string(e)
diff --git a/exception.go b/exception.go
index 88e453a..cb8a125 100644
--- a/exception.go
+++ b/exception.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func (e *ExceptionInfo) ForError(err error) *ExceptionInfo {
 
 	if m := errorMsgPattern.FindStringSubmatch(err.Error()); m != nil {
 		e.Module = m[1]
-		e.Value = m[2]
+		e.Type = m[2]
 	}
 
 	return e
@@ -58,11 +58,16 @@ func ExceptionForError(err error) Option {
 	for err != nil {
 		exceptions = append([]*ExceptionInfo{NewExceptionInfo().ForError(err)}, exceptions...)
 
-		if causer, ok := err.(interface {
+		switch e := err.(type) {
+		case interface {
 			Cause() error
-		}); ok {
-			err = causer.Cause()
-		} else {
+		}:
+			err = e.Cause()
+		case interface {
+			Unwrap() error
+		}:
+			err = e.Unwrap()
+		default:
 			err = nil
 		}
 	}
@@ -80,7 +85,7 @@ func Exception(info *ExceptionInfo) Option {
 	}
 }
 
-var errorMsgPattern = regexp.MustCompile(`\A(\w+): (.+)\z`)
+var errorMsgPattern = regexp.MustCompile(`\A(?:(\w+): )?([^:]+)`)
 
 type exceptionOption struct {
 	Exceptions []*ExceptionInfo `json:"values"`
diff --git a/exception_test.go b/exception_test.go
index e9c8c42..6b64f04 100644
--- a/exception_test.go
+++ b/exception_test.go
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ func TestException(t *testing.T) {
 					ex := &ExceptionInfo{}
 					err := fmt.Errorf("example error")
 					So(ex.ForError(err), ShouldEqual, ex)
+					So(ex.Type, ShouldEqual, "example error")
+					So(ex.Module, ShouldEqual, "")
 					So(ex.Value, ShouldEqual, "example error")
 					So(ex.StackTrace, ShouldNotBeNil)
 				})
@@ -141,6 +143,8 @@ func TestException(t *testing.T) {
 				Convey("With a normal error", func() {
 					err := fmt.Errorf("example error")
 					So(ex.ForError(err), ShouldEqual, ex)
+					So(ex.Type, ShouldEqual, "example error")
+					So(ex.Module, ShouldEqual, "")
 					So(ex.Value, ShouldEqual, "example error")
 					So(ex.StackTrace, ShouldNotBeNil)
 				})
@@ -148,6 +152,8 @@ func TestException(t *testing.T) {
 				Convey("With a stacktraceable error", func() {
 					err := errors.New("example error")
 					So(ex.ForError(err), ShouldEqual, ex)
+					So(ex.Module, ShouldEqual, "")
+					So(ex.Type, ShouldEqual, "example error")
 					So(ex.Value, ShouldEqual, "example error")
 					So(ex.StackTrace, ShouldNotBeNil)
 				})
@@ -156,7 +162,8 @@ func TestException(t *testing.T) {
 					err := errors.New("test: example error")
 					So(ex.ForError(err), ShouldEqual, ex)
 					So(ex.Module, ShouldEqual, "test")
-					So(ex.Value, ShouldEqual, "example error")
+					So(ex.Type, ShouldEqual, "example error")
+					So(ex.Value, ShouldEqual, "test: example error")
 				})
 			})
 		})
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index b28e1f2..e87a41d 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -11,3 +11,5 @@ require (
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.3.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190220154126-629670e5acc5 // indirect
 )
+
+go 1.13