Recent Breaches
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August 11, 2020 • An unsecured database with 3.1 million patients' details is exposed by a medical software company and subsequently destroyed by a "meow" attack.
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August 11, 2020 • Luminate Education Group (LEG) is hit by a cyber attack, affecting Leeds City College, Keighley College, Harrogate College, Leeds Sixth Form College and University Centre Leeds.
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August 11, 2020 • Hackers have managed to infiltrate the Canadian Justice Department's system in August, and send Emotet malware to citizens who traded with these addresses.
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August 11, 2020 • In August 2020, the website for sharing graphic videos and images of gore and animal cruelty suffered a data breach. The breach exposed 74k unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses, genders and unsalted SHA-1 password hashes. Private messages were also exposed, many containing requests for material of a depraved nature. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
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August 11, 2020 • In August 2020, the workout tracking app Jefit suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently sold within the hacking community and included over 9 million email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as either vBulletin or argon2 hashes. Several million cracked passwords later appeared in broad circulation.
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August 10, 2020 • Olympia House Rehab is hit by Netwalker ransomware.
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August 10, 2020 • The Center for Fertility and Gynecology is hit by Netwalker ransomware.
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August 10, 2020 • The gang behind the Avaddon ransomware launches a data leak site to extort victims and published the data of a construction company.
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August 10, 2020 • Ashley County Medical Center is investigating a former employee who they claim inappropriately accessed medical records. It appears that the information was viewed out of curiosity and has not been shared with a third-party.
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August 10, 2020 • High-speed trading firm Virtu Financial says it lost $6.9 million in a business email compromise scam in May.
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August 10, 2020 • Piedmont Orthopedics has been hit Pysa (Mespinoza) and have 3.5 GB of their data dumped by the threat actors.
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August 10, 2020 Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly hacked The SPIE Group, an independent European leader in multi-technical services.
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August 10, 2020 • The Buffalo and Erie County Public Library discloses to have been hit by hackers earlier this year.
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August 9, 2020 • The defcon.org forum is attacked with CVE-2019-16759 (targeting vBulletin), three hours after it is disclosed.
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August 9, 2020 • ProctorU confirms a data breach after a threat actor released a stolen database of user records on a hacker forum.
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August 9, 2020 • The FDA-approved Coronavirus ventilator manufacturer Boyce Technologies has been targeted by ransomware launched by the DoppelPaymer gang, who are threatening to leak data from the company.
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August 8, 2020 • The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is hit with a malware attack.
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August 7, 2020 Britain's National Trust is the latest data breach victim to be affected by the Blackbaud hack.
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August 7, 2020 • Tens of Reddit channels have been hacked and defaced to show messages in support of Donald Trump's reelection campaign.
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August 6, 2020 • Canon has suffered a ransomware attack and reportedly has 10 TB of data stolen.