Recent Breaches
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August 13, 2020 The Bletchley Park Trust is another victim hit in Blackbaud breach.
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August 13, 2020 Nykaa, an Indian retail seller of beauty, wellness and fashion, loses Rs 62 lakh (around USD 85,000) after the email of an Italian supplier is spoofed.
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August 12, 2020 • Israel claimed Wednesday that it had thwarted a cyberattack by a North Korea-linked hacking group on its classified defense industry. However, security researchers at ClearSky said the hackers penetrated the computer systems and were likely to have stolen a large amount of classified data.
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August 12, 2020 • Atrium Health joins the list of the victims of the Blackbaud ransomware attack.
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August 12, 2020 • A report reveals that NHS staff were hit with a wave of malicious email attacks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with doctors, nurses and other key workers reporting over 40,000 spam and phishing attacks between March and the first half of July.
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August 12, 2020 • One of India's most popular travel booking hubs has suffered a significant data breach that led to the loss of over 43GB of data as a result of a Meow bot attack. Preceding the attack, the affected Elastic search server was left publicly exposed for several days.
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August 12, 2020 • A virtual class in Gwinnett County's Archer High School gets Zoom-bombed by two men.
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August 12, 2020 • A file containing the information of 50,000 members of Kariyer.net is found on the web by LVKK, the Turkish data protection authority.
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August 12, 2020 • The Latin School of Chicago is among the victims of the Blackbaud ransomware attack.
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August 12, 2020 • Personal information of people who left comments about local planning issues on Flintshire council's website is hacked.
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August 12, 2020 • The Pace Center for Girls has been hit by a data breach in the aftermath of the Blackbaud hack.
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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.