Maryland Department of Labor
July 5, 2019
•[ leak, government ]
The Maryland Department of Labor (Maryland DoL) publishes a press release explaining that sensitive information of roughly 78,000 customers including names and social security numbers was accessed by an unauthorized party.
City of Griffin
July 3, 2019
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
Over $800,000 are stolen from the City of Griffin, Georgia, by scammers in a BEC (Business Email Compromise) attack by redirecting two transactions to their own bank accounts.
Chilean Ministry of Agriculture
July 1, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Chilean Ministry of Agriculture is hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware.
Georgia Court System
July 1, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Georgia Court System is hit by a ransomware attack. The attackers demand around $2 million in Bitcoin to restore access.
Village of Key Biscayne
June 27, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Village of Key Biscayne is hit by a ransomware attack.
U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department
June 27, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department is still struggling against a ransomware attack occurred back in April.
U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department
June 27, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department is still struggling against a ransomware attack that occurred back in April.
City of Sun Prairie
June 26, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
A press release reveals that for nearly two months this year, an unauthorized party had illegitimate access to the email accounts of certain employees working for the city of Sun Prairie.
City of Sun Prairie
June 25, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
A press release reveals that for nearly two months this year, an unauthorized party had illegitimate access to the email accounts of certain employees working for the city of Sun Prairie.
Village of Key Biscayne
June 23, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Village of Key Biscayne is hit by a ransomware attack.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
June 20, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A report from NASA reveals an April 2018 security breach, wherein a Raspberry Pi that was not authorized to be linked to the JPL network was targeted by hackers.
Riviera Beach
June 20, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Riviera Beach agrees to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system in a ransomware attack.
Iran computer systems controlling rocket and missile launchers
June 20, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
The US launch a cyber-attack on Iranian weapons systems. The cyber-attack disables computer systems controlling rocket and missile launchers.
Iran
June 17, 2019
•[ espionage, government ]
Iran says it had exposed a large cyber espionage network allegedly run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
City of Burlington
June 13, 2019
•[ social, phishing, government ]
The city of Burlington says it has fallen victim to a $503,000 phishing scheme occurred on May 16.
City of Edcouch
June 12, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The city of Edcouch is hit by a ransomware attack.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
June 11, 2019
•[ leak, government ]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that a data breach exposed photos of the faces and license plates for more than 100,000 travelers. The breach is allegedly related to the one suffered by Perceptics earlier this year.
Philadelphia's online court system
June 11, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
After a May 21, 2019, cyber-attack downed Philadelphia's online court system for e-filing and docketing services, issues remain throughout the county.
Lake City
June 10, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Lake City is hit by a ransomware attack that knocks out its email and online payment systems.
Wiener Büchereien
June 10, 2019
•[ hack, leak, government ]
In June 2019, the library of Vienna (Wiener Bchereien) suffered a data breach. The compromised data included 224k unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. The breached data was subsequently posted to Twitter by the alleged perpetrator of the breach.
