This week's updates
9th of February 2024

Data breach into 'DNA Relatives' feature

Cyber attack impacted state court system website

Hackers breached production servers resulting in password resets

Paid ransom to have the hijacked data destroyed by the cybercriminals

Major technology outage after cyber-attack

Breach accessed thousands of people’s sensitive details, including medical records

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

"One of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history"

'Malicious cybersecurity incident' disrupted the city's information technology systems

Attackers stole “some documentation and a limited amount” of source code

Patients' private information compromised by data security incident

Data leak revealed employees calling customers ‘idiots’

Personal details of customers breached

Data breach affected 89k individuals' personal information

Unauthorised access results in systems knocked offline

Compromise of personal data belonging to 4,230 individuals

Cloud engineer wiped bank's data after being fired for accessing porn in the office

Data breach exposed contracts, passports and ticket information

Unauthorized access to a key component of their network infrastructure

Technical difficulties caused by cyber incident

Cybersecurity incident over the weekend

Cyberattack suffered and computer systems shut down in response

Executive email hacked by Russia

China hacked companies and then attacked their clients

Unauthorised access to portion of network compromised patient data

Security incident exposed sensitive information for some users of the company’s cloud-based Web Application Firewall product

Disruptive cyberattack suffered and 27TB of information stolen

Email, video and VPN services disrupted after cyber attack

"Sophisticated foreign cyber-attack" disrupted access to information systems used by courts statewide

Data breach impacted 1.5 million individuals

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

Employees including minor children’s information compromised

Inadvertent source code exposure

Employee stole and sold patients’ protected health information over six-month period

Security breach involving information accessed illegally by former employee

Threat actor accessed customer support tickets and files containing sensitive data

Unauthorized party accessed files stored on computer network

Ransomware attack on children's hospital $800,000 demanded

Ransomware attack disabled some systems and possibly caused a theft of large amount of organisational information

'Watershed' attack on power plant halts operations

Personal information of potentially millions of customers compromised in malicious cyber-attack

Attackers gained access to government and other systems through a compromised software update

Theft of sensitive files by ransomware group

Hack forces system shutdown and results in business disruption

Hackers accessed website that facilitates maintenance orders for transportation, public works, parks and property management

Attackers tricked employee into sharing credentials 163 companies impacted

US government agency breach exposes 22 million employees' data

Lawmakers demand investigation into security practices following breach of X account

"Catastrophic" data breach suffered and customers alerted to change passwords

University experienced connectivity issues

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

Data breach after SIM swapping attack