2019 Breaches
Philippine Management Company Email Server Breached
Who: Cebuana Lhuillier No. of Accounts Breached: Over 900,000 What was affected: Clients' names, birth dates, email addresses, mobile numbers and in some cases, income information When it happened: August 5, 8, 12, 2018. How it happened: "On January 15, 2019, we...
Fort Worth Data Analytic Firm Loses 10 years of Mortgage Information
Who: Ascension No. of Accounts Breached: 24 million financial and banking documents What was affected: A decade’s worth of data, containing loan and mortgage agreements, repayment schedules and other highly sensitive financial and tax records that reveal an intimate...
Dublin’s Tram Service Computers held Ransom
Who: Luas, Dublin’s Tram service No. of Accounts Breached: 3,226 What was affected: Luas’ website When it happened: January 3, 2019 How it happened: The crook claims to have breached Luas’s systems and has threatened to publish its customers’ data if the organization...
Malware Compromised Titan Manufacturing and Distribution System
Who: Titan Manufacturing and Distributing No. of Accounts Breached: Not disclosed however their external counsel, Butler & Snow, to the Washington State Attorney General reports that 1,838 Washington residents were being notified of the breach. The same law firm...
Black Rock Asset Management Posts Confidential Information Online
Who: BlackRock Inc. # of Accounts Breached: More than 12,000 What was affected: Names and email addresses of financial advisers who buy BlackRock’s ETFs on behalf of customers. When it happened: December 5, 2018 How it happened: BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest...
Wichita State University Employees Targeting in Phishing Scam
Who: Wichita State University No. of Accounts Breached: At least 3 employees What was affected: Bank account numbers, student records, and other personal information. When it happened: January 2019 How it happened: The employees were victims of an e-mail phishing...
Cincinnati Ice Cream Website Hacked
Who: Graeter’s Ice Cream Online Store/Website No. of Accounts Breached: 12,000 What was affected: Credit card information. The information entered during checkout that the unauthorized code could have potentially copied includes first and last name, address, telephone...
30-year old “Computer Genius” arrested in Football Club Hack
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 hacking...
Ransomware strikes Podiatry Office
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...
Malicious Smartphone App Steals Data and Airtime from South African Customers
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...
Data Breach Impacts More Than 23,300 CCPSA Medical Patients
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...
Malicious Actor Encrypts Data and Request Ransom from Bridgeport Public Schools
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...
University Loses Information on over One Million Student and Alumni
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...
Ransomware Attack Forces Texas Town to Ditch Computers Returning to Paper
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...
Japan Wants to Survey Insecure IoT devices Before Olympics by Hacking
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...