This week's updates
10th of January 2025

Patients turned away after apparent cyberattack

Ransomware gang threatened to leak stolen data

Thousands of individuals' sensitive personal and protected health data compromised

422,424 individuals' personal information stolen in cyber-attack attributed to Rhysida

Cybercriminals infiltrated its computer environment and gained access to 171,074 individuals' personal information

Incident knocked out electronic health records system caused the facility to turn away ambulances on Christmas Day

Devices automatically activated Siri while users were having private conversations which resulted in targeted advertisements

Ransomware attack knocked some of its systems offline and caused disruption to order and shipping processes

Data breach forced temporarily take down internal systems

Systems not compromised after ransomware group claimed data stolen

Data breach impacted 585,000 individuals

Unauthorised access to unclassified documents after theft of vendor's key used for cloud-based technical support

Personal details of about 106 million individuals across the US and Canada were stolen in a hack

Authentication systems subject to cyberattack by external source

Wide-ranging "IT security issue" forced shut off of systems at some facilities

Data breach affected up to 914,138 individuals

Cyber attack on customer-facing infrastructure for state services like food stamps and Medicaid

One-day system blackout after hack by overseas criminal group

Cybersecurity incident over the weekend

Threat actor posted about an alleged data breach

264,000 patients' SSNs and PHI breached

Unauthorised access to IT network as well as several company email accounts

Claim that tens of thousands of records stolen

Hackers targeted official website putting it out of action temporarily

Cyberattack on government registries

Distributed denial-of-service attack caused major system disruption for nearly 12 hours

Hacker infiltrated internal messaging system

Unauthorised access to consumers’ sensitive information

Cybercriminals compromised files containing the sensitive personal information of 240,742 individuals

Data breach impacted 1.2 million patients

Hack exposed data of over 40,000 individuals

Cyber security issues left them without phones and computer network