Aerospace manufacturer defrauded of over Euro 50 million via CEO scam @ FACC AG

When news of the cyber attack became public in January 2016, Bloomberg pointed out that if the damages amounted to the funds misappropriated this would be one of the biggest hacking losses by size. Ultimately the loss was an initial outflow of li...

Electronic learning products company breaches children's data @ VTech

In 2015 this event constituted the fourth largest consumer data breach ever... In November 2015, the personal data on millions of parents and children was exposed after a hacker gained access to the server of the electronic toy manufacturing compan...

Software company hacked and 38 million accounts breached @ Adobe Systems Incorporated

In October 2013, the company reported that hackers had stolen nearly 3 million encrypted customer credit card records, plus login data for an unknown number of user accounts. Later the company said the attackers had accessed IDs and encrypted passwor...

'Malicious' data breach impacting customers' bank account details @ British Airways and International Airlines Group

In September 2018, the company disclosed that the personal and financial details of customers making or amending bookings had been compromised affecting about 380,000 transactions after hackers breached the company's website and mobile app during a tw...

Details of 113,000 employees accessed and encrypted in cyber attack @ Interserve and lnterserve Group Limited

In May 2020, the company disclosed a cyber attack which took place from late March 2020 until early May 2020 and affected the confidentiality and availability of up to 113,000 current and former employees' personal data after bad actors "were able to ...

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