Recent Breaches
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January 25, 2019 • French engineering consultancy Altran Technologies reveals to have suffered a cyber attack that hit operations in some European countries. The attack seems to have been caused by ransomware (LockerGoga). No customer data has been stolen.
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January 23, 2019 • The City of Sammamish is hit by a ransomware attack.
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January 21, 2019 • Graeter's Ice Cream issues notices to 12,000 customers to customers who made purchases on its website last year, after an "unauthorized code" was added to the website's checkout page.
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January 20, 2019 • Newcastle's Royal Grammar School warns parents of a "sophisticated attack" carried out via fraudulent emails sent from school accounts, offering a 25% discount on fees for paying quickly via Bitcoin.
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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.