Recent Breaches
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August 27, 2019 • New Kent Co. Public Schools are hit by a ransomware attack ahead of new school year.
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August 27, 2019 • Lumber Liquidators reveals that a malware attack took down its network. The attack occurred on August 21.
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August 22, 2019 • Researchers from FireEye reveal that back in February, a hacker broke into a leading India-based healthcare website, stealing 6.8 million records containing patient and doctor information.
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August 19, 2019 • The Macon County Circuit Clerk's website is defaced.
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August 19, 2019 • The UK Russian Embassy is taken down by a DDoS attack and remains unreliable for nearly 20 hours.
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August 16, 2019 Cable One Inc. reveals that the compromise of 14 email accounts earlier this year could have affected the personal information of some current and former employees and their family members.
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August 13, 2019 • According to a parliamentary committee, a foreign state is believed to be behind a cyberattack on the Czech Foreign Ministry.
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August 9, 2019 • Nearly 11,000 Mid-Valley Behavioral Care Networks (BCN) are notified of a potential breach of their data, after a phishing attack on two employee email accounts.
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September 17, 2019 • Magellan Health issues a statement saying two of its subsidiaries - National Imaging Associates and Magellan Healthcare - "discovered a potential data breach related to a phishing attack.
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September 16, 2019 • The Instagram account of singer-songwriter Nicole Scherzinger is hacked.
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September 15, 2019 • A ransomware attack on the Wallenpaupack Area School District, leads to a shut down of all 3,000 or so computers district-wide.
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September 9, 2019 • Researchers at Fortinet uncover a malspam campaign aimed to distribute the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company.
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September 9, 2019 • Premier Family Medical notifies 320,000 patients of a ransomware incident that they disclosed in August. The incident occurred on July 8.
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September 6, 2019 • Toyota Boshoku Corporation announces that one of its European subsidiaries lost more than $37 million due to a business email compromise (BEC) attack.
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September 6, 2019 Metro Mobility notifies 15,000 customers of a data breach when an employee's e-mail account was hacked by an unauthorized person, compromising personal ride information between June 13 and Aug. 14.
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September 4, 2019 • For the second time in four months, the Wolcott school district is the victim of a ransomware attack.
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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.