Georgia Tech University
April 2, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Georgia Tech announces that a vulnerability in a web application allowed an attacker to gain access to the personal information of up to 1.3 million students, college applications, staff, and faculty members. The breach was discovered on March 21.
CoinBene
March 27, 2019
•[ hack, finance ]
CoinBene is the second cryptocurrency portal believed to be hacked with losses estimated at over $45 million, according to industry observers.
Verity Medical Foundation
March 25, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Verity Medical Foundation discloses a third incident involving access to employees' email accounts.
Questcare Medical Services
April 12, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Questcare Medical Services announces to have discovered a security incident. On February 13, an unauthorized third party obtained access to an employee's email account.
Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service
April 12, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service notifies that, on March 21, 2019, an unauthorized user accessed Blue Cross of Idaho's online provider portal and was able to access provider remittance documents, which contained PHI.
Bashavtotrans
April 9, 2019
•[ hack ]
The largest transport company in the Republic of Bashkortostan Bashauto (Bashavtotrans) is hacked.
Klaussner Furniture
April 5, 2019
•[ hack, retail ]
Klaussner Furniture notifies more than 9,000 employees and their dependents of a data security incident when an unauthorized third party gained access to two computers on its network in February 2019.
FBI National Academy Associates
April 12, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker group breaches three sites associated with the FBI National Academy Associates and uploads their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers.
Rehabilitation Hospital of Northwest Ohio
April 10, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
An undisclosed number of patients at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Northwest Ohio have their personal data compromised after "unauthorized access" to employee email accounts in October.
Weslaco Regional Rehabilitation Hospital
April 8, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Weslaco Regional Rehabilitation Hospital notifies patients their information may have been compromised, after some employees' email accounts were compromised in October 2018.
Metrocare Services
April 5, 2019
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Metrocare Services notifies 5,290 clients of a breach after an unauthorized third party gained access into some employees' email accounts beginning on January 2019.
Elliott Ohin
April 1, 2019
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Hackers used spyware, developed by Israeli technology firm NSO Group, that exploited a vulnerability in the messaging app WhatsApp to inject spyware onto the phones of opposition politicians and prominent religious leaders in Togo. The hack coincided with pro-reform protests in the country. Among the victims is Elliott Ohin who has served in several cabinet roles.
Canada's Natural Health Services (NHS)
March 28, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
A data breach at Canada's Natural Health Services (NHS) exposes personal information of roughly 34,000 medical marijuana users after a record is accessed by an "unauthorized user".
Dakota County
April 12, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
Dakota County notifies 1000 individuals of an incident occurred on February 13, 2019, when an email account belonging to one of its employees was accessed without authorization.
Uniden
April 11, 2019
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Uniden's website for commercial security products is hacked to host a Word document that delivers what appears to be a garden variety of the Emotet trojan, also known as Geodo and Heodo.
Hoya Corporation
April 6, 2019
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Japanese eyeglass lens maker Hoya Corp. reports it was hit by a cyberattack at its key production base in Thailand in late February. Attackers started to mine cryptocurrency and led to a partial shutdown of its factory lines for three days.
Unknown Organization
April 6, 2019
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The election results service in Finland is the target of a DDoS attack.
Clearway Pain Solutions
April 5, 2019
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Clearway Pain Solutions Institute notifies 35,000 patients after discovering on February 20 that their EMR system had been accessed without authorization.
Training School of the First Scout Ranger Regiment
April 4, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
Emerging reports claim that the website of the training school of the First Scout Ranger Regiment, one of the Philippine Army's (PA) elite units, was hacked last year.
Bithumb
March 30, 2019
•[ hack, insider, financial ]
Bithumb is hacked for the second time in less than a year as attackers (probably an insider job) manage to steal $21 million worth (3 million EOS coins and 20 million XRP).
