Recent Breaches
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October 24, 2019 • The City of Johannesburg shuts down its website and billing systems after a group hacked into the authority's system and demanded a ransom of four Bitcoins worth about $30,000.
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October 22, 2019 • Kalispell Regional Healthcare notifies nearly 130,000 patients whose personal information may have been compromised after a phishing attack occurred in May 2019.
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October 22, 2019 • Lottomatica is hit by a DDoS attack. The attack lasts for more than two weeks.
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October 22, 2019 • The Chilean Carabineros are hacked and the attackers leak 10,000 sensitive files.
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October 22, 2019 • Pine County says that around 4,400 people may have their data breached after a county employee had their email account accessed by unauthorized personnel.
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October 21, 2019 Avast discloses a security breach that impacted its internal network. The attack's purpose was to insert malware into the CCleaner software, similar to the 2017 incident. The breach occurred because the attacker compromised an employee's VPN credentials.
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October 21, 2019 • Czech government officials reveal that they dismantled a Russian cyber-espionage network operating in the country. The attack occurred in March.
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October 20, 2019 • The San Bernardino City Unified School District is knocked offline by a ransomware attack.
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October 20, 2019 • OpenVPN keys and configuration files from VikingVPN are also leaked online.
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October 20, 2019 • NordVPN is compromised as the'private keys for their web site certificate'are publicly leaked on the Internet The company confirms the breach was discovered on March 2018.
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October 20, 2019 • TorGuard also confirms to have suffered a breach in September 2017.
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October 17, 2019 • The Universiti Malaya E-Pay Cashless Payment and Records portal is hacked but no data is compromised apparently.
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October 17, 2019 • U.S. financial services provider Billtrust experiences an outage affecting all of its services after some of the company's computing systems are impacted by a malware attack allegedly caused by the BitPaymer ransomware.
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October 16, 2019 • Web.com, the parent company of world's first domain registrar Network Solutions discloses a security breach occurred in August 2019. A third-party infiltrated some of the company's systems. Even Register.com is affected.
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October 16, 2019 Researchers from Cyberbit uncover a large infection of cryptominers at an unnamed "international airport in Europe".
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October 16, 2019 • In October 2019, security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko identified an unprotected Elasticsearch server holding 1.2 billion records of personal data. The exposed data included an index indicating it was sourced from data enrichment company People Data Labs (PDL) and contained 622 million unique email addresses. The server was not owned by PDL and it's believed a customer failed to properly secure the database. Exposed information included email addresses, phone numbers, social media profiles and job history data.
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October 15, 2019 • Ingredion Incorporated reveals that it recently detected suspicious activity on some data center servers due to malware.
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October 15, 2019 • "BriansClub" one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, is itself hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records.
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October 15, 2019 • Jasper County suffers a ransomware attack on their countywide systems, including email and emergency response systems.
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October 15, 2019 • TrialWorks is reportedly hit by a ransomware attack, shutting down its platform for at least four days and locking some lawyers out of their case files.