Recent Breaches
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August 30, 2019 • An insurance firm (Euler Hermes Group SA) reveals that criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a CEO's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of 220,000 ($243,000) back in March.
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August 30, 2019 • A phishing scheme succeeds in breaking into the email accounts of five Oregon Judicial Department employees, exposing personal information of more than 6,000 people.
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August 30, 2019 • Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, announces that hackers breached its servers and made off with some user information.
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August 29, 2019 • Hundreds of dental practice offices in the US are infected with Sodinokibi ransomware, after attackers compromise two software providers, The Digital Dental Record and PerCSoft, and use them to distribute the ransomware.
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August 26, 2019 • The Rockville Center, N.Y. School District pays an $88,000 ransom to regain access to files encrypted by Ryuk ransomware. The attack took place on July 25.
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August 25, 2019 • Hostinger discloses a security incident that impacted its platform and users. A hacker gained access to an internal server, where he found an authorization token for an internal API used to retrieve information about up to 14 million clients.
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August 23, 2019 • Mastercard discloses a data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities involving customer data from the company's Priceless Specials loyalty program. Two files with the details of the loyalty program members are leaked on the Internet.
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August 23, 2019 • Lyons Companies announces that two employee email accounts were accessed without authorization between February 4 and March 12, 2019.
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August 22, 2019 • Alberta Health Services warns 7,000 patients their personal health information is compromised in an email hack.
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August 20, 2019 • A scammer is able to successfully fool the City of Saskatoon into transferring them a little over $1 million. Part of the money is recovered though.
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August 17, 2019 Tivoli, the popular amusement park in Denmark, reveals that its website was compromised early August and up to a thousand guests had their personal information stolen.
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August 16, 2019 • A coordinated ransomware attack takes down 23 government ggencies across Texas.
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August 15, 2019 • The San Dieguito Union High School District sends out an email alerting them of a malware attack on August 9.
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August 15, 2019 • The European Central Bank uncovers a data breach in its Bank newsletter. The attackers had access for months to the contact information of hundreds of financial industry subscribers to the Banks' Integrated Reporting Dictionary (BIRD) website.
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August 14, 2019 • Eye Care Associates Inc., is the victim of a ransomware attack. The attack occurred approximately two weeks before.
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August 13, 2019 • Hackers claim to have stolen 700,000 guest records belonging to Choice Hotels, one of the largest hotel chains in the world. The data was left exposed in an unsecured MongoDB.
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August 8, 2019 • TAFE NSW has two dozen employees hit by a phishing attack.
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September 16, 2019 • The Instagram account of Yanet Garcia is hacked.
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September 6, 2019 • Wikipedia is forced offline in several countries after a cyber attack hits the global encyclopedia.
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September 6, 2019 • The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is hit by a DDoS attack.