Recent Breaches
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April 9, 2019 • Tenx Systems reveals to have been hit by a ransomware attack discovered on April 9.
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April 9, 2019 • Minnesota Department of Human Services announced to have suffered a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of about 11,000 people after an employee's email is compromised on March 26, 2019.
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April 8, 2019 • Weslaco Regional Rehabilitation Hospital notifies patients their information may have been compromised, after some employees' email accounts were compromised in October 2018.
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April 6, 2019 • Users of the blockchain platform Zilliqa are the targets of a phishing attack carried out by a fraudulent entity calling itself Zollo.
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April 5, 2019 • Metrocare Services notifies 5,290 clients of a breach after an unauthorized third party gained access into some employees' email accounts beginning on January 2019.
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April 3, 2019 Almost half a million dollars is diverted out of the city of Tallahassee's employee payroll after a suspected foreign cyber-attack of its human resources management application.
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April 1, 2019 • Hackers used spyware, developed by Israeli technology firm NSO Group, that exploited a vulnerability in the messaging app WhatsApp to inject spyware onto the phones of opposition politicians and prominent religious leaders in Togo. The hack coincided with pro-reform protests in the country. Among the victims is Elliott Ohin who has served in several cabinet roles.
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March 31, 2019 • The City of Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York, is hit by a ransomware attack, with city officials working over the weekend to respond to the incident.
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March 29, 2019 • Womens' Health USA notifies 17,531 patients, after disclosing that its employees were hit by a phishing attack that began in April, 2018 and also occurred in August.
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March 29, 2019 Researchers from MalwareHunterTeam discover a DHL phishing page hosted in the web page of the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS).
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March 28, 2019 • A data breach at Canada's Natural Health Services (NHS) exposes personal information of roughly 34,000 medical marijuana users after a record is accessed by an "unauthorized user".
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April 12, 2019 • Dakota County notifies 1000 individuals of an incident occurred on February 13, 2019, when an email account belonging to one of its employees was accessed without authorization.
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April 11, 2019 • The website of the free multimedia editor VSDC is breached again to distribute a banking trojan and an info stealer (Win32.Bolik.2 and KPOT stealer).
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April 11, 2019 • Uniden's website for commercial security products is hacked to host a Word document that delivers what appears to be a garden variety of the Emotet trojan, also known as Geodo and Heodo.
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April 11, 2019 • The city of Greenville is hit by the RobbinHood ransomware. A new strain that claims to protect the victim's privacy.
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April 6, 2019 • Japanese eyeglass lens maker Hoya Corp. reports it was hit by a cyberattack at its key production base in Thailand in late February. Attackers started to mine cryptocurrency and led to a partial shutdown of its factory lines for three days.
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April 6, 2019 • The election results service in Finland is the target of a DDoS attack.
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April 5, 2019 • Clearway Pain Solutions Institute notifies 35,000 patients after discovering on February 20 that their EMR system had been accessed without authorization.
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April 4, 2019 • Emerging reports claim that the website of the training school of the First Scout Ranger Regiment, one of the Philippine Army's (PA) elite units, was hacked last year.
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April 2, 2019 • Arizona Beverages, one of the largest beverage suppliers in the U.S., is hit by a ransomware attack.