City of Newark
April 25, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A ransomware attack hits some municipal computers in New Jersey's most populous city, Newark.
Greenway Health
April 24, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Greenway Health is the victim of a ransomware attack.
Atlantic Digestive Specialists
April 21, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Atlantic Digestive Specialists notify patients of a ransomware incident.
Mountain Home Water Department
March 14, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The servers of Mountain Home Water Department fall victim to a ransomware attack.
Pennsylvania Senate Democrats
March 3, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Pennsylvania Senate Democrats are hit by a ransomware attack that locks senators and employees out of their computer network.
Inland Revenue Department
February 25, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Thousands of Inland Revenue files are locked up after New Zealand's tax department becomes the target of a Cryptolocker attack in November.
Bingham County
February 17, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Hackers demand $25K-$30K after ransomware attack takes down Bingham County servers.
Tiverton Town Council
February 3, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
John Vanderwolfe, a town clerk wipes council documents dating back to 2015 after mistakenly opening an email containing a ransomware malware.
City of Troy
February 2, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Troy computer system is the victim of a ransomware attack.
Linking County
January 31, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Linking County servers are targeted by a ransomware infection.
D.C. Police
January 27, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Ransomware infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump's inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts.
Cockrell Hill Police
January 26, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Police in Cockrell Hill, Texas admits in a press release to have lost years worth of evidence after the department's server was infected with ransomware.
Racingpulse
January 21, 2017
•[ ransomware, hack, malware ]
A popular horse racing website (Racingpulse.in) is hacked with ransomware.
St. Louis Public Library
January 20, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
St. Louis Public Library is hit by a ransomware attack. Attackers demand $35,000 worth in Bitcoin.
Little Red Door Cancer Services of East Central Indiana
January 11, 2017
•[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Dark Overlord hacks the computers of an Indiana-based cancer agency and asks for a large payment of 50 Bitcoin ($44,800) not to release the data. Initially the attack seemed to have been caused by ransomware.
Kanawha County Schools
January 11, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Kanawha County Schools tells that their internal documents have been restored after a ransomware attack.
The Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC)
January 10, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) is forced to pay $28,000 in bitcoin after cybercriminals successfully infected its computer networks, email systems and voicemail lines with ransomware.
Unknown Organization
January 10, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Susan M. Hughes Center notifies of a ransomware incident affecting 11,400 patients.
Emory Brain Health Center
January 4, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Emory Healthcare is one of the victims of the MongoDB ransomware attacks and has its database, managed by a third-party and containing 90,000 records, encrypted.
CloudPets
January 1, 2017
•[ leak, ransomware, misconfiguration ]
In January, the maker of teddy bears that record children's voices and sends them to family and friends via the internet CloudPets left their database publicly exposed and it was subsequently downloaded by external parties (the data was also subject to 3 different ransom demands). 583k records were provided to HIBP via a data trader and included email addresses and bcrypt hashes, but the full extent of user data exposed by the system was over 821k records and also included children's names and references to portrait photos and voice recordings.
