Ransomware attack hits security firm @ Verint Systems

In April 2019, the company announced that they experienced a ransomware attack that same month stating that they quickly identified, remediated the attack and fully restored their IT services in less than 24 hours without any impact to customers or pa...

Third party attained “unauthorized access” to select staff email accounts @ Princess Cruises

In March 2020, while the world's attention was being captured by the pandemic, the company disclosed that in May 2019 they had discovered an "unsanctioned third party" had gained unauthorized access to employees' email accounts that contained personal...

Security incident exposed personal information of 5 million users @ Minted

In May 2020, the company disclosed a 'data security incident' where unauthorized actors obtained customer information from their user account database. The disclosure came after the discovery of their database being advertised on a dark web marketplac...

Service update interruption attributed to cyber attack @ Ghost and 2 more...

In May 2020, the company experienced an incident where a virus successfully infected servers within their private network by exploiting a critical vulnerability in Salt (the open-source software used by data centers and cloud servers) which was then u...

Hackers demand a ransom in bitcoin @ Commune of Willebroek

In January 2020, the commune disclosed that it had been impacted by a cyber attack in which the attackers demanded a ransom be paid in bitcoin to unlock their computers. The commune provided three updates to citizens and staff over the course of one ...

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