Recent Breaches
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January 18, 2019 • Valley Hope Association addiction treatment centers notifying patients their personal information may have been compromised in a phishing attack occurred between Oct. 9-10, 2018.
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January 17, 2019 • The online servers of the newly launched ATLAS game suffer some "technical difficulties" after players hack a STEAM admin account and spam fellow players for hours with "Subscribe to PewDiePie" messages.
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January 14, 2019 • Sunderland City Council reveals to have been hit with phishing and spoofing emails, and at least one Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, back in November.
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January 7, 2019 Coinbase detects a "deep chain reorganization" of the Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain. The equivalent of $1.1M is double spent, but the attacker reportedly returns $100,000 to cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io.
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January 4, 2019 • At least three employees of Wichita State University do not receive their paychecks after they fall victim of an e-mail phishing scheme.
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January 2, 2019 • Data thieves steal the personal information of nearly 5 million people from an unconfirmed number of Chinese online ticket reservation platforms, according to Beijing police, who arrested a suspect in the case.
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January 1, 2019 • Hackers launch an attack on the website of showman Volodymyr Zelenskiy following the announcement of his candidacy for president on New Year's Eve.
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January 1, 2019 • This cyber breach allegedly arose when a RMS employee clicked on a hyperlink in a phishing email that falsely appeared to originate from a RMS business partner. The RMS employee provided her email credentials to the malicious website opened by the hyperlink.
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December 28, 2018 • Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah notifies people after eleven of their employees fell prey to phishing attacks.
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December 28, 2018 • Dental Center of Northwest Ohio reveals that a ransomware attack affecting its local third-party IT vendor (Arakyta) may have endangered personal data belonging to current and former patients and employees.
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December 24, 2018 • "Captain America" actress Hayley Atwell's nude photos are allegedly hacked and those behind it threatened to release the images, according to reports.
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December 20, 2018 • Warby Parker discloses that roughly 198,000 of its customers may have been affected by a credential stuffing attack targeting the eyeglass retail chain. The unauthorized activity started on Sept. 25 and continued through late November.
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January 8, 2019 • Kent County Community Mental Health Authority notifies 2,284 patients after phishing attack
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January 6, 2019 • Conservative Senator Linda Frum's Twitter account is hacked. The attackers share personal information including her drivers license and post racial tweets.
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January 4, 2019 • Chaplaincy Health Care offers free identity protection and credit monitoring to more than 1,000 people after an employee's email login credentials are compromised through an apparent phishing scheme.
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December 28, 2018 • Family Physicians Group notifies more than 8,000 patients about a phishing attack on an employee's email account. Patient data may have been exposed between Aug. 7 and Aug. 21, 2018, when the company discovered the attack.
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December 27, 2018 • A Ryuk ransomware attack is suspected of preventing production of several newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. The attack affected the systems at Tribune Publishing's Southern California printing plant.
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December 21, 2018 Another consequence of the Click2Gov breach: the city of Saint John shuts down its online system used to pay parking tickets after discovering a data breach that could have exposed customer names, addresses and credit card information.
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December 20, 2018 • An attack on the Italian oil firm Saipem targeted servers based in India, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, and the United Arab Emirates. Hackers used a variant of the Shamoon virus.
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January 11, 2019 • The Indian subsidiary of Tecnimont SpA falls prey to a fraud wherein $18.6 million (INR 130 crore) were being stolen by a group of Chinese hackers pretending to be trading an acquisition in China.