Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The 8Base ransomware group attacked Croatia’s Port of Rijeka, stealing sensitive data, including contracts and accounting info. A cyber attack hit the Port of Rijeka in Croatia, the 8Base ransomware group claimed responsibility for the security breach. The Port of Rijeka (Luka Rijeka d.d.),

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2025

UK telecommunications firm TalkTalk disclosed a data breach after a threat actor announced the hack on a cybercrime forum. UK telecommunications company TalkTalk confirmed a data breach after a threat actor claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on a cybercrime forum and offered for sale alleged customer data.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Tip 1: Educating and Training the Workforce Regularly Human error remains one of the leading causes of data breaches. According to the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report , 68% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error. Many cyber attacks exploit vulnerabilities in outdated software.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2025

Nova Scotia Power confirmed a data breach involving the theft of sensitive customer data after the April cybersecurity incident. In April, Nova Scotia Power and Emera faced a cyber attack that has impacted their IT systems and networks.Both companies declared that the security incident did not cause any power outages.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Just within 3 weeks of confirmation, Singapore Telecommunication LTD aka SingTel has confirmed another data breach after Optus Cyber Attack. It has issued a press update saying its Australian company Dialog Pty faced a digital attack last week leaking details of only 20 clients.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

Massive data base breaches today generally follow a distinctive pattern: hack into a client -facing application; manipulate an API; follow the data flow to gain access to an overly permissive database or S3 bucket (cloud storage). A classic example of this type of intrusion is the Capital One data breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

CISA adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Three new Ivanti CSA zero-day actively exploited in attacks Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 7, 2022

Samsung, which experienced a highly sophisticated cyber attack on Saturday last week, issued a press statement that no personal data was leaked in the incident. Thus, the statement confirms that hackers got access to some company-related data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2024

million individuals were affected by the data breach it suffered in February 2024. The insurance company Prudential Financial confirmed that the data breach it suffered in February 2024 affected over 2.5 Prudential Financial confirmed that more than 2.5 million individuals.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2024

A cyber attack against Michigan Medicine resulted in the compromise of the personal and health information of approximately 57,000 patients. The academic medical center of the University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine, suffered a data breach that impacted 56953 patients.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Texas Tech University reports a data breach affecting 1.4 million, exposing personal, health, and financial data from its health sciences centers. Texas Tech University disclosed a data breach that impacted over 1.4 million individuals following a cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2021

Oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) discloses a data breach resulting from the compromise of its Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) file sharing service. Energy giant Shell disclosed a data breach resulting from the compromise of an Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) used by the company. billion in 2020.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2024

The world’s largest recreational boat and yacht retailer MarineMax, disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack. The world’s largest recreational boat and yacht retailer MarineMax disclosed a data breach that impacted over 123,000 individuals.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

Firstmac Limited disclosed a data breach after the new Embargo extortion group leaked over 500GB of data allegedly stolen from the company. Firstmac Limited, one of the largest non-bank lenders in Australia, disclosed a data breach. The company is notifying the impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The hack of the FTA server took place in March, but the hacker had access to the data of Morgan Stanley customers in May.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 6, 2023

According to a report published by Japanese news resource Nikkei, it has been revealed that the North Korean government is actively engaging in cyber attacks on the digital infrastructure of its adversaries. These cyber attacks have proven to be a lucrative source of income for the reclusive nation.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2024

The American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corporation disclosed a data breach following the cyber attack that hit the company in June. The American drugstore chain giant Rite Aid suffered a data breach following a cyberattack in June conducted by the RansomHub ransomware group. 148 in the Fortune 500 in 2022.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

A cyber attack hit the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the federal and national law enforcement agency of Canada. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the federal and national law enforcement agency of Canada, confirmed that it was the target of a cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Reddy’s, the Indian contractor for Russia’s “Sputinik V” COVID-19 vaccine was hit with a cyber-attack that forced the company to close its plants. Indian COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories was hit with a cyber attack that forced it to shut down its plants in Brazil, India, Russia, the U.K.,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Community Clinic of Maui experienced a data breach impacting over 120,000 people following a LockBit ransomware attack. In May, the Community Clinic of Maui experienced a major IT outage that impacted thousands of patients following a cyber attack. In June, the Lockbit ransomware gang took credit for the attack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2021

McDonald’s fast-food chain disclosed a data breach, hackers have stolen information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. In April 2017, another cyber attack hit McDonald’s Canada career website and hackers stole records of 95,000 job seekers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

Arkana Security, a new ransomware group, claims to have breached the telecommunications provider WideOpenWest (WOW!). The new ransomware group Arkana Security claims to have hacked US telecom provider WOW!, stealing customer data. Arkana claimed to have breached WOW!s has not yet confirmed the alleged data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 22, 2021

The US Department of Defense Cyber Command has disclosed in a tweet that the US State Department was hit by a cyber attack, just a couple of weeks ago, hinting at a serious data breach. The post Details of US State Department Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

T ech giant Acer was hacked again in a few days, after the compromise of the servers in India, threat actors also breached some of its systems in Taiwan. Last week the company revealed that its after-sales service systems in India were hit by an isolated attack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2021

French multinational dairy products corporation Lactalis discloses cyberattack, but claimed that had no evidence of a data breach. France-based dairy giant Lactalis announced that it was hit by a cyber attack, but claimed that it had found no evidence of a data breach. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers. Larsson quotes Gunnebo CEO Stefan Syrén saying the company never considered paying the ransom the attackers demanded in exchange for not publishing its internal documents.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. In 2020, the City disclosed a significant email breach , that resulted from a successful phishing attack on an employee.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 28, 2021

T Mobile that suffered a massive data breach in August this year has again fallen prey to a similar hack in December 2021 that saw information leak of a small set of the telecom company customers. T-Mobile is yet to acknowledge the data breach on an official note.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

Air India disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 4.5 million of its customers, two months after its Passenger Service System provider SITA was hacked. Air India has disclosed a data breach that impacted 4.5 ” reads the data breach notification sent to the customers. 3, 2021. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

However, there is no evidence that the information reached the hands of hackers as no threat group yet has come forward to take a claim of a cyber attack or the data breach. The post Cyber Attack at the University of Colorado appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, T-Mobile). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

educational nonprofit organization National Student Clearinghouse disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 900 US schools. The security breach resulted from a cyber attack exploiting a vulnerability in the MOVEit managed file transfer (MFT).- reads the message published by the gang.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 7, 2025

Our cybersecurity expert explores the security risks in the automotive industry, from remote hacks to data breaches, and explains the cyber attacks Mazda vehicles may be vulnerable to. The post Mazda Connect Systems Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks appeared first on eSecurity Planet.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Japanese watchmaker Seiko revealed that the attack that suffered earlier this year was carried out by the Black Cat ransomware gang. On August 10, 2023, the Japanese maker of watches Seiko disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

At-home laboratory services provider Apex Laboratory discloses a ransomware attack and consequent data breach. The at-home laboratory services provider Apex Laboratory disclosed a ransomware attack, the hackers also stole some patient in the incident that took place on July 25, 2020. Apex Laboratory, Inc.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The ransomware attack that hit the systems of Nissan Oceania in December 2023 impacted roughly 100,000 individuals. Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced in December 2023 that it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The charity organization Save the Children International revealed that it was hit by a cyber attack. The BianLian extortion group claims to have stolen 6,8 TB of documents, including International HR data, international personal data.

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