This week's updates
1st of March 2024

Data breach into 'DNA Relatives' feature

Hackers compiled a list of people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry

Outage "caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process"

Students’ social security numbers compromised

Mistakenly forwarded know your customer (KYC) documents to incorrect email address

Data breach affected more than 2.3 million patients

Petrochemical company with a plant in Saudi Arabia was hit by a new kind of cyberassault

Cybersecurity incident temporarily impacted scheduling systems

Confidential commercial information shared after human error

Poorly protected identifying information

Paid ransom to have the hijacked data destroyed by the cybercriminals

Major technology outage after cyber-attack

Website compromised in cyber attack by Pakistani hackers

Data breach of personal information stored on the county’s network

Ransom demanded by the attackers paid to prevent the leak of the stolen data online

Unencrypted PII in an internet-accessible environment

Unauthorised party gained access to computer network

Users' email addresses and mobile numbers exposed

Unsuccessful cyber attack government systems were not compromised

Unauthorised access to information systems

Network interruption related to cyber security issue

Vulnerabilities in product that could allow the ability to execute remote code or directly impact confidential data or critical systems

Unauthorized party accessed its IT network

Misconfigured database resulted in hundreds of thousands of children and families' data exposed online

Unauthorized party accessed consumers’ sensitive information

Millions of patients affected in double-extortion attack

489,830 patients' information stolen after cyberattack targeted vendor

Hackers stole 40GB of sensitive data

Network outage after cyber attack

Cybersecurity incident over the weekend

Cyberattack suffered and computer systems shut down in response

Users’ unencrypted sensitive data stored in cloud services

183,000 impacted by data breach which compromised Social Security Numbers

Employee and resident data acquired by threat actors

Ransomware attack affected the protected health information of over 14,000 individuals

Customers' personal information posted online after vendor's systems' breach

Targeted by a "bold and highly sophisticated social engineering scam"

Portion of its manufacturing and distribution businesses experienced a cybersecurity incident

Data breach after vendor was target of ransomware attack

Data breach involved employee information and game development details

Unauthorised party accessed confidential information

Cyber attack compromised the personal data of current and former clients

Cyber incident shuts down website, WiFi and email access

Data breach affected 22 million users

Cyber attack impacted systems payment portal

2.5million private plane owners’ data leaked

'Cybersecurity matter' forced them to take communications and MyChart offline

Cybersecurity issue shut down systems at Las Vegas venues

Data breach of personal information including Social Security numbers

Cyber criminal threatens to begin publishing stolen customer data online

Azure outage shows spike in HTTP requests as researchers blame DDoS

Detailed information of over 250 former workers (Afghanistan) seeking evacuation mistakenly copied into an email

Unauthorised party accessed company’s computer network

Open Google Cloud instance exposed details of millions of customers

Staff and students' data “accessed and copied” and shared on dark web

Fertility clinic discloses data breach exposing patient info

Confidential patient information compromised after third party's data security incident

District-wide network issue after a cyber-security incident

IT service desk staff calls resulted in compromised super administrator accounts

Source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked

Threat actor accessed customer support tickets and files containing sensitive data

Cyber attack on IT systems company proactively disconnected systems from Internet

Phishing attack against its Hungarian business resulted in about 15 million euros loss

147,000 current and former patients' personal information exposed

Targeted by state-sponsored actors using Zoho zero-day

Cyber-attack with sophisticated, military-grade encryption focused on locking the port’s servers and holding them hostage to leverage a ransom

370 past and current employees affected by cyber attack on US port authority

Serious cybersecurity incident that has disrupted the agency's information technology systems

Cyber security breach experienced by its partner to access information stored on its server

“Alarming” targeted cyberattack but no impact on operations and no known threat to Canadians' safety

People asked to stop sending mail abroad due to a "cyber incident"

'Watershed' attack on power plant halts operations

Ransomware gang claimed hack and threaten release of data

Accidentally sent out all its payroll data to gmail account

Data breach impacted 200,000 customers

Large amounts vaccination data leaked online

Ransomware attack connected to a group called RansomEXX

Information technology (IT) systems hit by "cybersecurity incident"

Ransomware attack forced its computer network offline

Cyber intrusion targeted the city’s computer servers

Hack forces system shutdown and results in business disruption

Passport issuance suspended following a cyber-attack on immigration service

Students and staff personal data stolen

Cyber security incident temporarily impacted its network

Town recovered quickly after cyber attack

Third-party service provider improperly shared access credentials with unauthorised individuals led to data breach

Cyber attack exposed personal information and case files from 523 clients

Cyber attack impacted municipality's computer systems

Cyber attack on automotive division and IT systems disabled to prevent further damage

Services down following weekend cyberattack

Customers in the U.S. and Canada affected by data breach

US government agency breach exposes 22 million employees' data

Cyber attack experienced but operations not impeded

Services impacted by DDoS attack claimed by Anonymous Sudan hacktivist group

Attack at vendor caused disruptions to service for pharmacies nationwide

Students and staff asked to stay at home due to cyber attack

Cyber security breach involving a subcontractor

Finland shocked by therapy center hacking which leads to clients being blackmailed

Insider, accidentally or otherwise, had inappropriate access to personal data

Unauthorized party accessed certain accounts

Data breach after SIM swapping attack

Cyber criminals stole over one million users' information

Disruption caused by cyber attack

Outage cut off access to smart home devices/security cameras

Internal database exposed on the internet revealed c.384 million records