Recent Breaches
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April 12, 2019 • A hacker group breaches three sites associated with the FBI National Academy Associates and uploads their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers.
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April 10, 2019 • An undisclosed number of patients at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Northwest Ohio have their personal data compromised after "unauthorized access" to employee email accounts in October.
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April 10, 2019 • Matrix.org is the victim of a cyberattack which forces the organization to overhaul its entire production infrastructure and inform users of a widespread credentials leak.
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April 10, 2019 • An orchestrated disinformation campaign hits the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense.
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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.