Recent Breaches
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April 5, 2020 • The Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) sends out a notice to current and former students, and employees of King and Pierce County Schools, after learning of a data breach within their computer network.
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April 3, 2020 • OGUsers, one of the most popular hacking forums on the internet, discloses a security breach, the second such incident in the past year.
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April 3, 2020 • Wolfe & Associates, Property Services discloses that an online database was compromised by cyber-criminals in a data breach that may have occurred as many as six months ago. In January 2021, San Diego residents Gordon Welterlen and Nicole Milan admitted to hacking Wolfe & Associates and stealing the identities of more than 9,000 clients. They used that information for fraudulent purposes.
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April 3, 2020 • Criminals disrupt a Zoom meeting held at the highest levels of the US government, despite warnings against using the software.
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April 2, 2020 • Kent Commercial Services reveals to have been hit with a ransomware attack on April 2. The attackers demanded 800,000 GBP.
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April 2, 2020 • Hackers working in the interests of the Iranian government have sent phishing emails masquerading as Google web services to WHO employees, attempting to gain access to internal information.
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April 2, 2020 • In April 2020, the account hijacking and SIM swapping forum OGUsers suffered their second data breach in less than a year. As with the previous breach, the exposed data included email and IP addresses, usernames, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. A total of 263k email addresses across user accounts and other tables were posted to a rival hacking forum.
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April 2, 2020 • In April 2020, now defunct Brazilian e-commerce platform HomeRefill suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 187k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, dates of birth and salted password hashes.
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April 1, 2020 • The Maze ransomware group posts data from Berkine, a joint venture between Sonatrach, the state-owned oil company of Algeria, and the US firm formerly known as Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.
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April 1, 2020 • 10x Genomics notifies about a Sodinokibi ransomware attack.
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April 1, 2020 • Bl@ckt0r drops data on leak site.
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April 1, 2020 • In April 2020, the custom printed apparel website Teespring suffered a data breach that exposed 8.2 million customer records. The data included email addresses, names, geographic locations and social media IDs.
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March 31, 2020 Marriott confirms a second data breach in three years, this time involving the personal information on 5.2 million guests. The attackers obtained the login details of two employees, and broke in weeks earlier during mid-January. The breach was discovered on February.
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March 31, 2020 • The Nefilim Ransomware operators leak the data of Cosan, a Brazilian conglomerate producer of bioethanol, sugar and energy.
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March 30, 2020 • A spear-phishing hits a customer service employee at GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar. The phisher modifies key customer records, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.
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March 30, 2020 • Online gambling operator BetUS is the latest target of the Maze ransomware gang.
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March 29, 2020 • Christopher Dobbins has been sentenced to federal prison for hacking his former employer and sabotaging their electronic shipping records, causing more than $200,000 in damage and delaying the shipment of personal protective equipment.
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March 28, 2020 A phishing incident at the Teaching Council leads to personal information relating to 9,735 teachers being shared.
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March 27, 2020 • SBTech is hit with a ransomware infection.
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March 27, 2020 • Social Bluebook, a Los Angeles-based company that allows advertisers to pay social media "influencers" for posts that promote their products and services, is hacked.