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California's Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS)
April 18, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
California's Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) discloses to have been hit by a ransomware attack. The incident impacts the records of approximately 85,000 patients across three facilities in West Hills, Simi Valley and Westlake Village.
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Ian Balina
April 18, 2018
Ian Balina, a well-known sponsored YouTube blogger is hacked, while streaming, loosing roughly $2 million in tokens.
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Sangamo Therapeutics
April 18, 2018
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[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Sangamo Therapeutics announces a data security incident involving compromise of a senior executive's company email account.
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African Embassy in Dublin
April 16, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
Researchers from Lastline reveal that an African ambassador in Dublin was compromised by cyber criminals with hackers gaining access to entire nation's digital data.
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Middle Eastern Individuals
April 16, 2018
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Lookout reveal the details of an espionage campaign using two malware strains called Desert Scorpion and FrozenCell, to spy on targets in Palestine. The attackers are thought to be linked to Hamas.
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TaskRabbit
April 16, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
TaskRabbit, a web-based service owned by IKEA that connects freelance handymen with clients in various local US markets, emails customers admitting it suffered a security breach. The company takes down its app and website while investigating the incident.
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Hong Kong Broadband Network
April 16, 2018
Hong Kong Broadband Network, the city's second largest fixed-line residential broadband provider, discovers that an inactive customer database has been accessed without authorization. The personal data of some 380,000 customers, including details for more than 40,000 credit cards, were compromised in a cyberattack against the telecommunications company's database.
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Irvington School District
April 16, 2018
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[ leak, email, education ]
Partial social security numbers of more than 1,200 employees at Irvington schools are distributed via email to an unknown number of recipients by an unidentified attacker.
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UnityPoint Health
April 15, 2018
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
UnityPoint Health notifies patients of a phishing attack occurred between November 1, 2017 and February 7, 2018
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Texas Health Resources
April 14, 2018
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[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Texas Health Resources reveals that an unauthorized party may have gained access to patient information back in October 2017 by compromising some of the organization's email accounts. The breach was discovered in January 4,000 and might impact 4,000 users.
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Inogen
April 13, 2018
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[ insider, manufacturing ]
Inogen, a California-based medical device manufacturer, reports that 30,000 former and current customers may have had their personal information exposed when a company employee's email account was compromised sometime between Jan. 2, 2018, and Mar. 14, 2018.
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Mise En Place Restaurant Services
April 13, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware ]
Mise En Place Restaurant Services announces that it was subject to a ransomware attack, which may have potentially exposed some information of clients and individuals.
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Diagnostic Radiology & Imaging
April 13, 2018
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Diagnostic Radiology & Imaging notifies 800 patients of phishing incident occurred in November 2017.
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Sucuri
April 12, 2018
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The California based website security provider Sucuri suffers a series of massive DDoS attacks causing service outage in West Europe, South America and parts of Eastern United States.
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Coinsecure
April 12, 2018
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[ financial, finance ]
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India's second exchange, announces that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth, have been transferred from the main wallet to an account that is not under their control.
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Great Western Railway
April 11, 2018
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[ hack ]
Great Western Railway reset more than a million customer accounts after discovering hackers had successfully breached a small percentage of them. According to the operator, about 1,000 of its passengers' details have been exposed.
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Vevo Youtube Account
April 10, 2018
Two hackers manage to deface several popular YouTube music videos, changing titles and thumbnail images. The list of the victims include the most-viewed YouTube video of all time, "Despacito". The two claim to have done it for Palestine.
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Victoria Independent School District
April 10, 2018
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[ hack, education ]
Victoria independent School District notifies employees that some email accounts were inappropriately accessed between July and October 2017. Some of the emails in those accounts contained employees' personal information.
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Sodexo Filmology
April 9, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
Sodexo food services and facilities management company notifies a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform Sodexo Filmology.
