The Onion phishing attack @ The Onion

In May 2013, the satirical news publication suffered a cyber attack where employees were targeted with phishing emails by members of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The SEA used the access to post content to the organisation's official social med...

Flights cancelled after cyber attack @ Corvus Airlines d.b.a. Ravn Air Group and 3 more...

In December 2019, the airline company disclosed that they had suffered "a malicious cyber attack on our company’s IT network" and confirmed that they were working with the FBI / other authorities and a cyber security company to restore affected compan...

Payment card security breach at US fast fashion retailer @ Forever 21

In November 2017, the clothing retailer announced that some of its customers may have been affected by a potential data breach. At the time of the announcement the investigation was still ongoing, so it was not known how many people had been impacted ...

UK customer credit card numbers, addresses and passwords held to ransom @ Cash Converters (UK) Limited

Australian pawnbroker revealed that a data breach could have exposed customer's personal information via the company's old UK website, which was replaced in September 2017. The breach is thought to only have affected customers with an account on th...

Personal data breach of over 3000 employee/contractors at US airline company @ Virgin America Inc.

In July 2017, the airline company revealed that a hacker had successfully entered their corporate network gaining access to login information and passwords used by employees to access the network and confirmed that 3,120 employees had their logins com...

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