Recent Breaches
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January 7, 2020 • Enloe Medical Center is hit by a ransomware attack that causes the hospital to reschedule some elective procedures.
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January 6, 2020 • Canyon announces it was struck by a "massive cyber attack" over the Christmas break by a "professionally organized group".
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January 6, 2020 Researchers from Juniper Threat Labs reveal that the website of popular photography and imaging retailer Focus Camera got hacked late in December 2019 by MageCart attackers to inject malicious code that stole customer payment card details.
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January 6, 2020 • Students in the Pittsburg Unified School District of Pennsylvania are left without internet access as the result of a ransomware attack.
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January 6, 2020 The Twitter account of former Australian cricket coach Darren Lehmann is hacked by a Donald Trump supporter.
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January 6, 2020 • Public schools in Hamden are taken down by a malware attack.
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January 6, 2020 • The Texas Department of Agriculture is hit with a cyberattack that defaces its website with an image of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the top Iranian commander who was killed in a U.S. strike the previous week.
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January 6, 2020 • The Wallace State Community College is hit by a cyber attack.
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January 6, 2020 • In January 2020, the Barcelona-based dating app MobiFriends suffered a data breach that exposed 3.5 million unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, genders, dates of birth and MD5 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
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January 4, 2020 • Austria's foreign ministry is targeted by a cyber-attack that is suspected to have been conducted by a foreign country.
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January 4, 2020 • Hackers make through the first level of security for Saskatchewan's eHealth records system, locking the government out of some systems and asking for a ransom.
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January 4, 2020 • The homepage for the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program is briefly altered to show a pro-Iranian message and an image of bloodied Donald Trump being punched in the face.
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January 4, 2020 • For the same reason, a group of Iranian hackers dubbed "Shield Iran" defaces the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank.
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January 4, 2020 • In January 2020, the online clothing retailer Pampling suffered a data breach that exposed 383k unique customer email addresses. The data was later shared on a popular hacking forum and also included names, usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
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January 4, 2020 • In January 2020, the Spanish mobile phone forum HTC Mania suffered a data breach of the vBulletin based site. The incident exposed 1.5M member email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes and password histories. Data from the breach was subsequently redistributed on popular hacking websites.
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January 3, 2020 • The personal and medical information of 49,351 patients is exposed following a security incident involving two employees' email accounts.
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January 3, 2020 • Using a new exploit named Aria-body, APT 30 attempted to compromise networks belonging to governments and state-owned companies in Australia and Southeast Asia. One of the group's targets is the office of Mark McGowan, Western Australia's premier. The hackers compromised a computer at the Indonesian embassy in Canberra and sent a malicious document to a staff member at McGowan's office from that machine.
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January 3, 2020 • The Contra Costa County Library System is hit by ransomware
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January 3, 2020 • Native American Rehabilitation Association announces that it experienced an Emotet attack on November 4-5, 2019.
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January 2, 2020 • Klamath County Veterans Service Office notifies a phishing attack occurred on September 19, 2019