AT&T
August 20, 2021
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2024, tens of millions of records allegedly breached from AT&T were posted to a popular hacking forum. Dating back to August 2021, the data was originally posted for sale before later being freely released. At the time, AT&T maintained that there had not been a breach of their systems and that the data originated from elsewhere. 12 days later, AT&T acknowledged that data fields specific to them were in the breach and that it was not yet known whether the breach occurred at their end or that of a vendor. AT&T also proceeded to reset customer account passcodes, an indicator that there was sufficient belief passcodes had been compromised. The incident exposed names, email and physical addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and US social security numbers.
Liquid
August 18, 2021
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
Liquid crypotcurrency exchange is hacked, $90 million in cryptocurrencies is stolen and all exchanges are temporarily shut down.
Texas Lavaca Medical Center
August 17, 2021
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Texas hospital notifies over 48,000 individuals their patient information may have been compromised in a cyberattack.
Have Fun Teaching
August 15, 2021
•[ leak, hack, financial ]
In August 2021, the teaching resources website Have Fun Teaching suffered a data breach that leaked 80k WooCommerce transactions which were later posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 27k unique email addresses along with physical and IP addresses, names, payment methods and the item purchased. Have Fun Teaching is aware of the incident.
T-Mobile
August 14, 2021
•[ hack, technology ]
Hacker claims to have breached T-Mobile's servers stealing personal data of approximately 100 million customers.
Twin Falls County, Idaho
August 12, 2021
•[ hack, malware, government ]
County in Idaho suffers a malware attack taking multiple departments offline for many days.
Oregon Eye Specialists
August 10, 2021
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Optometry practice suffers data breach as a result of unauthorized access to employee email.
Poly Network
August 10, 2021
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
Poly Network suffers a cyber attack, hacker steals $600 million in various cryptocurrencies, making it the largest cryptocurrency hack to date.
Texas ENT Specialists
August 9, 2021
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Texas medical practice is victim of a cyberattack compromising protected health information of over 500,000 patients.
Family of Woodstock
August 3, 2021
•[ hack, healthcare ]
New York social service provider suffers cyberattack compromising protected health informaiton of 8,214 individuals.
Electronic Warfare Associates
August 2, 2021
•[ hack, phishing, manufacturing ]
U.S. defense contractor suffers data breach as a result of a compromised employee email account, employee personal information is stolen and other sensitive company files were vulnerable.
Montrose Regional Health
August 2, 2021
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Colorado medical center suffers unauthorized access to employee email accounts compromising information of over 52,000 individuals.
Western Cape Blood Service (WCBS)
July 30, 2021
•[ hack, healthcare ]
South African non-profit blood bank discloses an unspecified cyberattack.
Educators Mutual Insurance Association
July 29, 2021
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Educators Mutual Insurance Associate discovers unauthorized network access potentially compromising protected health information of its members.
AndroidLista
July 28, 2021
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2021, the Android applications and games review site AndroidLista suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 6.6M user records containing email addresses, names, usernames and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes, all of which were subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum. AndroidLista did not respond when contacted about the breach.
Homewood Health
July 27, 2021
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Canadian mental health service provider is hacked and personal information of patients is posted for sale online.
Global Times petition website
July 24, 2021
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
An online petition calling for investigation into a US biological laboratory is hit with a denial of services cyberattack.
Transnet
July 22, 2021
•[ hack, government ]
Transnet, the state run operator of South African major ports and railways, suffers an unidentified cyberattack shutting down port operations.
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IBEC)
July 20, 2021
•[ hack, government ]
Kenya's electoral body is hacked revealing personal information of over 60,000 registered voters.
Guntrader
July 17, 2021
•[ hack, retail ]
In July 2021, the United Kingdom based website Guntrader suffered a data breach that exposed 112k unique email addresses. Extensive personal information was also exposed including names, phone numbers, geolocation data, IP addresses and various physical address attributes (cities for all users, complete addresses for some). Passwords stored as bcrypt hashes were also exposed.
