Feb 25, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Football Clubs No. of Accounts Breached: 70 million documents What was affected: Private documents were hacked that included details about a number of players’ contracts and clubs’ plans and conversations. How it happened: Hacker used a string of...
Feb 25, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Bobby Yee, D.P.M. No. of Accounts Breached: 24,000 patients What was affected: Medical files, including patient personal information. The altered information may have included first name, last name, address, telephone number, age, gender, date of birth, Social...
Feb 24, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Upstream No. of Accounts Breached: 27 million transaction attempts What was affected: Alcatel Smartphones. The weather app’s background activity, invisible to users, was reportedly consuming up to 250MB of their mobile data daily. When it happened: January 2019...
Feb 24, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Critical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates No. of Accounts Breached: 23,377 patients’ accounts What was affected: Personally identifiable information, clinical information such as diagnoses and conditions, labs and diagnostic studies, medications, other...
Feb 24, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Bridgeport Public Schools What was affected: District data encrypted and held for a ransom When it happened: January 9, 2019 How it happened: Cyberattack originated from a virus dispatched by a malicious outsider encrypted district data to hold it hostage for a...
Feb 24, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) No. of Accounts Breached: A total of 1,164,540 records What was affected: Records, belonging to students who enrolled for various courses at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) between 2000 and 2018 When it happened: January 29, 2019...
Feb 24, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: City Hall of Del Rio, Texas What was affected: Ransomware attack which led to multiple computers on the network being turned off and disconnected from the Internet to contain and analyze the malware. When it happened: January 10, 2019 How it happened: Ransom note...
Feb 24, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Japanese IoT devices What was affected: 200 million IoT devices When it happened: January 2019 How it happened: The survey will be carried out by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) under the supervision of the...
Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Lloyds Bank Glasgow No. of Accounts Breached: 19 customer accounts What was affected: £75,000 stolen from customer accounts When it happened: July 18, 2016 How it happened: On July 18, 2016, between 7:45 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Lynn had accessed 19 customer accounts...
Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: DailyMotion What was affected: Customer accounts, usernames, and passwords. When it happened: January 19, 2019 How it happened: DailyMotion announced on Friday that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack, Credentials stuffing is a security term that...
