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Acer
October 14, 2021
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[ ransomware, leak, malware ]
Acer's after-sales service systems in India suffer ransomware attack, 60 GB of data is leaked online.
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Animeify
October 14, 2021
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[ leak, technology ]
In October 2021, the now defunct Arabic language Anime website Animeify suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 808k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, genders and plain text passwords.
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University of Sunderland
October 13, 2021
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[ hack, education ]
University suffers major cyberattack interrupting campus operations for many days.
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Principality of Sealand
October 12, 2021
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[ hack, malware, government ]
Hackers plant web skimmer malicious code in government online store.
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CoinMarketCap
October 12, 2021
During October 2021, 3.1 million email addresses with accounts on the cryptocurrency market capitalisation website CoinMarketCap were discovered being traded on hacking forums. Whilst the email addresses were found to correlate with CoinMarketCap accounts, it's unclear precisely how they were obtained. CoinMarketCap has provided the following statement on the data: "CoinMarketCap has become aware that batches of data have shown up online purporting to be a list of user accounts. While the data lists we have seen are only email addresses (no passwords), we have found a correlation with our subscriber base. We have not found any evidence of a data leak from our own servers we are actively investigating this issue and will update our subscribers as soon as we have any new information."
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Autonomous University of Barcelona
October 11, 2021
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Autonomous University of Barcelona suffers a significant ransomware attack, operations are interrupted for over a month.
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Olympus
October 10, 2021
Olympus reveals a potential cybersecurity incident affecting its America IT systems.
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Community Medical Centers
October 10, 2021
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
California health system suffers an apparent ransomware attack, health information of over 650,000 patients is potentially compromised.
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Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
October 9, 2021
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles suffers ransomware attack compromising protected health information of over 400,000 patients.
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Charlotte YMCA
October 9, 2021
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Charlotte YMCA discloses suffering a data breach as a result of a ransomware attack.
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Ferrara Candy
October 9, 2021
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[ ransomware, malware, retail ]
U.S. candy company is hit with ransomware attack weeks before Halloween.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
October 9, 2021
Threat actor compromises Aruba Central, an HPE network monitoring platform, data using a stolen access key.
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Compton and Broomhead Dental Center
October 8, 2021
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Inidana dental practice suffers data breach, patient files are leaked online.
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Twitch
October 8, 2021
Hackers deface twitch changing background game images for a number of hours.
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ActMobile
October 8, 2021
In October 2021, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an exposed database he attributed to ActMobile, the operators of Dash VPN and FreeVPN. The exposed data included 1.6 million unique email addresses along with IP addresses and password hashes, all of which were subsequently leaked on a popular hacking forum. Although usage of the service was verified by HIBP subscribers, ActMobile denied the data was sourced from them and the breach has subsequently been flagged as "unverified".
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USS Kidd official Facebook Page
October 7, 2021
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[ hack, government ]
The official facebook page of Navy warship USS Kidd is hacked, the page live streams online video gaming.
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Twitch
October 6, 2021
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
Twitch game streaming platform is hacked, 125 GB of source code and user information is leaked online.
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Prairie Lakes Healthcare System
October 6, 2021
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[ hack, healthcare ]
South Dakota health system is hit with a cyberattack disrupting network operations.
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Dacoll
October 5, 2021
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[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
The Cl0p ransomware gang attacks Dacoll, a technology service provider to the UK polic, confidential data held by law enforcement is leaked online.
