ALERTS, BREACHES & EXPLOITS
Page updated regularly with relevant security issues, vulnerabilities, and attacks.
EDUCATION & GOVERNMENT SECTORS
NOVEMBER 12: Scare Force: Pakistan military hit by Operation Shaheen malware
NOVEMBER 12: City of Bakersfield announces data breach from hacked Click2Gov system
NOVEMBER 7: Nebraska - Scotts Bluff County warns against phishing email scam
NOVEMBER 5: Global prime contractor Austal hit by data breach
NOVEMBER 2: Ex-CPS worker accused of stealing info on 80,000 people in latest data breach
OCTOBER 31: Phishing attempts on Oregon election officials increase
OCTOBER 26: University of Iowa among top phishing targets, with 49 attempts in the last year
OCTOBER 25: Multiple Phishing Campaigns Target Universities
OCTOBER 24: DC government falls for phishing, pays nearly $700000 to scammers
OCTOBER 20: Scotland's, The Moray Council accused of 'serious' employee data breach
OCTOBER 19: Phishing scam hits Minnesota state agency; 21000 accounts affected
OCTOBER 19: Crawford County Clerk's Office gets hit by ransomware
OCTOBER 19: Ransomware Attack Hits Indiana National Guard
OCTOBER 19: Hackers Target Connecticut City, Force Officials To Pay $2000 Ransom
OCTOBER 19: Ransomware attack targets Muscatine, IA servers
OCTOBER 19: 10k California State University, East Bay students and prospective students, compromised by data breach
OCTOBER 18: LSU warns of phishing scam involving school email addresses
OCTOBER 17: Ransomware attack hits North Carolina water utility following hurricane
OCTOBER 16: Pentagon data breach exposed details of 30,000 civilians and military personnel
OCTOBER 15: Another Click2Gov data breach hits Indio, California
OCTOBER 14: Department of Defense Data Breach Exposes 30000 Employees
OCTOBER 12: 21,000 Minnesotans' information affected in data breach from Department of Human Services
OCTOBER 11: Madison County, ID computers were hacked with ransomware virus
OCTOBER 8: Cleveland Police accidentally publish personal details of more than 1,600 people
OCTOBER 8: St. Petersburg, city's payment app Click2Gov breach affects thousands of customers
OCTOBER 3: Employee’s Illegal Access to UMass Patient Records Results in Data Breach of 15,000 Patients
OCTOBER 3: Phishing attacks impersonate UH administrators to lure would-be victims
OCTOBER 3: Education Company Chegg Acknowledges Data Breach, Puts 40 Million Users on Notice
OCTOBER 1: Phishing emails target WKU faculty and staff
SEPTEMBER 27: Phishing scam targets JCOPE employees, lobbyists
SEPTEMBER 26:Port of San Diego victim of cyberattack
SEPTEMBER 19: State Department Breached - Employee Information Exposed
SEPTEMBER 17: GovPayNow.com Leaks 14M+ Records
SEPTEMBER 1: Penn State Community warned of email scam
AUGUST 29: Phishing scam targets University of Oregon email addresses
AUGUST 29: City Of Albert Lea Victim Of Phishing Scam
AUGUST 29: Phishing scam suspends UM System email delivery
AUGUST 29: Seven Australian universities targeted in global hacking campaign
AUGUST 27: Phishing scam targeting US senators grows
AUGUST 10: Adams County, Wisconsin: Data breach exposed personal information of 250,000
AUGUST 24: Ransomware attack hits Coweta County government systems
JULY 31: TAMIU student arrested for alleged data breach
JULY 28: 364 Idaho inmates hack $225,000 in credits from JPay computer tablets
JULY 28: 2017 Hack of D.C. police security cameras part of bigger ransomware scheme
JULY 24: Wasaga Beach pays ransom following computer system hacking
JULY 16: Algonquin College says more than 111,000 affected by data breach
JULY 14: Pennsylvania reveals cyber intrusion into vital records, including birth and death records
JULY 13: International Mission Board Breached
JULY 13: Purdue Data Breach Affects 26,000 Individuals
JULY 11: Hacker Sold Stolen U.S. Military Drone Documents On Dark Web For Just $200
JULY 9: Polar Fitness App Reveals Sensitive Data on Military and Intelligence Personnel - From 69 Different Countries
JULY 6: More than 6,000 Victims as Community of Wellington suffers data breach
JULY 5: Manitowoc County's January Data Breach Compromised Personal Health & Medical Information
JUNE 30: South Eastern Regional College (Northern Ireland) Breached - Personal and Financial Data compromised
JUNE 29: Trojan Horse Virus infiltrates Alaska Public Assistance Agency
JUNE 27: State Treasury of Connecticut Raided - Nearly 1 Million stolen from College Savings Plan
JUNE 23: City utility company's online payment system compromised - 2,000 customers affected
TECHNOLOGY & TRAVEL
NOVEMBER 10: ELON MUSK IMPOSTER SCORED $180K IN A TWITTER BITCOIN SCAM
NOVEMBER 8: Hackers hide cryptocurrency mining malware in Windows installation files
NOVEMBER 5: WhatsApp: Newest Attack Target for Mobile Phishing
NOVEMBER 2: Radisson Hotel Group breach - Radisson Rewards Members at Risk
OCTOBER 29: Vulnerability In Microsoft Word Online Video Feature Allows for Phishing
OCTOBER 29: 9.4m airline passengers exposed in Cathay Pacific data breach
OCTOBER 19: North Korean Hacking Group Lazarus Takes In $571M
OCTOBER 18: Apple Pay “brandjacked” in new phishing attack
OCTOBER 18: Open source web hosting software compromised with DDoS malware
OCTOBER 18: Fake Adobe Flash update hides cryptocurrency malware
OCTOBER 16: Donald Daters, a Trump-Themed Dating App, Leaks Personal Data of Users
OCTOBER 8: Google+ breach exposes hundreds of thousands of users personal data, is shutdown
OCTOBER 5: Sales Intelligence Start-Up Apollo Exposes Billions of Data Point
OCTOBER 3: Phishing gets more complex as decoy PDF pops up with Microsoft-issued SSL certificate
SEPTEMBER 28: Facebook Security Breach Affects 50 Million
SEPTEMBER 26: Uber Pays $148 Million To Settle 2016 Data Breach Nightmare
SEPTEMBER 7: British Airways Hacked - Customers' Financial Data Compromised In 380,000 Transactions
SEPTEMBER 3: Hard-to-spot online scam promotes free airline tickets
AUGUST 30: Hackers Are Exposing An Apple Mac Weakness In Middle East Espionage
AUGUST 29: Air Canada confirms mobile app data breach - Approximately 20k users affected
AUGUST 25: 2 Million Impacted by T-Mobile Data Breach - Personal Info including account numbers compromised
AUGUST 25: Weak Passwords Lead to Breach of Sprint's Internal Staff Portal
AUGUST 10: UK Holiday camp chain blames data breach affecting 34,000 on phishing scam
AUGUST 6: Malware Hits Plants of Chip Giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
AUGUST 6: GitHub to Warn Users on Compromised Passwords
AUGUST 2: Media monitoring app Mention suffers third-party data breach
AUGUST 1: Reddit Discloses Info on Data Breach Suffered in June
JULY 31: Over 10 Million Impacted by Dixons Carphone Data Breach
JULY 27: COSCO Shipping victim of potential ransomware attack
JULY 15: The Average Cost Of A Data Breach Is Highest In The U.S. [Infographic]
JULY 11: Hacker Puts Airport's Security System Access On Dark Web Sale For Just $10
JULY 10: Bancor, an Israeli cybersecurity start-up, suffers breach. $13.5 Million in cryptocurrency stolen
JULY 10: Adobe Releases Security Patch Updates For 112 Vulnerabilities
JULY 9: Timehop Breached: 21 Million Global Users Affected
JULY 9: Hackers Using Stolen D-Link Certificates for Malware Signing
JULY 9: GoDaddy's Domain Factory Breached - one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany
JULY 5: Yatra.com Breached: 5 millions users' passwords and PINs compromised
JULY 4: Malware Stealing Cryptos By Changing Pasted Addresses
JULY 2: After exposing Ticketmaster's breach, Monzo experiences breach as well
JUNE 29: Facebook App "NameTests" allows anyone to access the personal info of 120 million users
JUNE 29: Typeform Breached - Customer data compromised
JUNE 28: Auckland airport experiences massive delays as security breach grounds hundreds
JUNE 26: Fast Booking, hotel booking app, breached - Hundreds of hotels have guests payment info stolen
JUNE 26: Wordpress flaw gives hackers full control of websites
JUNE 20: Travel App FlightRadar24 Breached: Passwords and usernames of 230k compromised
JUNE 19: South Korean Crypto Exchange Giant Bithumb hacked - $30 Million Stolen
JUNE 10: Coinrail attack results in $42 Billion in stolen Cryptocurrencies
JUNE 6: MyHeritage Breach exposes info of 92 Million users
MAY 22: Verge targeted for second time - 1.4 Million in cryptocurrency stolen
APRIL 4: Verge Cryptocurrency hacked - Lose 25% of value
JANUARY 26: $534 Million stolen in Coincheck hack
MEDICAL & HEALTHCARE
NOVEMBER 12: Southwest Washington Regional Surgery Center notifies 2.3K patients after phishing attack
NOVEMBER 12: Third-party data breach exposes info of Alabama hospital job applicants
NOVEMBER 12: My Health Record hit by 99 data breaches
NOVEMBER 11: HealthCare.gov breach exposed personal details of 75,000, including partial Social Security numbers
NOVEMBER 7: NJ Fines Vendor Behind Virtua Healthcare Data Breach $200K
NOVEMBER 6: Madison nonprofit serving the disabled impacted by data breach
OCTOBER 26: Personal data for 10,000 Missourians exposed, including some Social Security numbers
OCTOBER 25: 3 phishing hacks breach 20000 Catawba Valley patient records
OCTOBER 24: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Breached - Names, DOBs and clinical information compromised
OCTOBER 22: CMS Reports Data Breach in ACA Agent and Broker Portal - 75k records compromised
OCTOBER 19: HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75000 Consumers
OCTOBER 18: Data breach at Northwest Surgical Specialists impacts 2050 patients
OCTOBER 17: 15000+ people at risk after Ransom Memorial Hospital phishing attack
OCTOBER 12: Two phishing attacks on Minnesota DHS breach 21000 patient records
OCTOBER 11: 'Payment Notification' Is Top Healthcare Phishing Attack Subject
OCTOBER 10: Data breach at Northwest Surgical Specialists impacts 2050 patients
OCTOBER 6: Rebound Orthopedics & Neurosurgery hack exposes Social Security numbers of 2,800 patients, employees
OCTOBER 6: Gold Coast Health Plan Breach exposes Personal Data of 37,000 Patients
OCTOBER 3: Gwinnett Medical Center investigates possible data breach
SEPTEMBER 28: Aspire Health Suffers Email Breach from Phishing Attack
SEPTEMBER 20: Independence Blue Cross Suffers Breach
AUGUST 31: Cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified in two major medical devices
AUGUST 31: 9 Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Found in Philips E-Alert Tool
AUGUST 30: Health Management Concepts (HMC) Ransomware attack turned into a healthcare data breach
AUGUST 23: Australian High School Breached - Confidential student health records published online
AUGUST 20: Legacy Health data breach compromises as many as 38K patients
AUGUST 20: 400K individuals affected by Augusta University data breach
AUGUST 9: 301K Patients Involved in St. Mary’s Paper Records Data Breach
JULY 30: UnityPoint warns 1.4 million patients their information might have been breached by email hackers
JULY 28: Confluence Health discloses patient-data breach
JULY 27: Data breach at Blue Springs Family Care endangers patient records, enables ransomware attack
JULY 25: Flowers Hospital to shell-out $150k each to 1200 patients following 2014 data breach
JULY 21: Internal Investigation launched into LabCorp Data Breach - Millions of Patients at Risk
JULY 21: Data breach at Boys Town National Research Hospital - Omaha, Nebraska
JULY 12: Healthcare Data Breach Costs Remain Highest Among Industries
JULY 5: NHS Digital Erroneously Reveals Data of 150,000 Patients
JUNE 29: HealthEngine Breach reveals "feedback" of over 59k patients
JUNE 29: 619 UC San Diego patients affected by Nuance Communications data breach
JUNE 19: MD Anderson Cancer Center Fined $4.3 M For Data Breach
CONSUMER, HOSPITALITY & RETAIL
NOVEMBER 12: Nordstrom data breach exposes employee information
NOVEMBER 7: Bowker Announces Data Breach of Self-Pubbed Authors' Credit Cards
NOVEMBER 4: Under Armour says 4 million Aussie accounts in data breach
NOVEMBER 2: FIFA hit by more damaging leaks after hack of computer systems
OCTOBER 27: Stolen laptop prompts data breach concern for 10k Raley’s pharmacy customers
OCTOBER 25: Data breach may have exposed personal information for thousands of Girl Scouts
OCTOBER 19: Fake Spotify Email Latest Phishing Attack Aimed at Stealing Apple IDs
OCTOBER 19: iCloud Hacker Demanded $175000 Ransom to be Paid in Bitcoin
OCTOBER 16: Phishing Scam Seeking Manuscripts Spreads Worldwide
OCTOBER 9: Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey – DDoS Attacks Blight Launch
OCTOBER 6: Apple confirms a limited Supermicro malware attack
OCTOBER 5: Eventbrite Facing Class Action Lawsuit After Ticketfly Data Breach - 27 Million Customers Affected
OCTOBER 4: Fortnite cheaters are being targeted with malware
SEPTEMBER 8: 6.42 million shoppers hit by online fashion shopping giant's massive data breach
SEPTEMBER 20: Thieves using 'spear phishing' to steal money from homeowners
SEPTEMBER 20: Data breach sees farm names end up in hands of animal rights activists
SEPTEMBER 19: NewEgg Suffers Month Long Cyberattack - Customer Financial Information Compromised
SEPTEMBER 1: DraftKings hit by cyberattack ahead of NFL season kickoff
AUGUST 30: Chinese Hotel Breach May Have Hit 100 Million+ Customers
AUGUST 24: Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen Breached - Payment info of customers in 22 states may be at risk
AUGUST 24: North Korean Hackers Suspected of Creating Mac-Based Malware
AUGUST 21: Wendell's Furniture loses thousands of dollars, records in ransomware attack
JULY 26: ComplyRight data breach hit with lawsuit after $662.000 clients affected
JULY 21: Massive Data Breach exposes sensitive documents from Tesla, Toyota et al, including blueprints and NDAs
JULY 19: Human Resources Firm ComplyRight Breached - Thousands of personal records leaked
JULY 12: Chinese phone company Huawei has been linked to a major data breach in Africa
JULY 12: BP data breach widens to 60,000 people after malware attack on PageUp job portal
JULY 6: Macy's Breached: Third party used valid usernames and passwords to gain access to customer' accounts
JULY 3: Cheaters Beware: Fortnite Cheat Tools Laced with Malware
JULY 2: Costa Coffee Hacked - Data Breach of Australian HR Firm Considered Culprit
JUNE 29: Massive Data Breach at Exactis: Hundreds of millions of Americans impacted
JUNE 28: Ticketmaster UK Breached - Personal info, including payment details, of thousands compromised
JUNE 27: Adidas Discloses Major Breach - Millions of user accounts affected
FINANCE AND BANKING
NOVEMBER 11: Bankers Life Data Breach Exposes 566,127 People
NOVEMBER 7: Half a Million People Potentially Affected by Data Breach at Bankers Life
NOVEMBER 7: HSBC confirms some US bank customers affected by October data breach
NOVEMBER 5: Dubai's biggest bank warns over phishing email scam
OCTOBER 18: Computer hackers steal $300000 from Nunavut Resource Corp.
OCTOBER 15: New Crypto Mining Malware Appears on iPhones
OCTOBER 8: FBI: Phishing scam targeting victims' direct bank deposits
OCTOBER 5: Advance Salary Startup EarlySalary Reports Data Breach On Website
AUGUST 31: McAfee’s Bitfi wallet hacked - Will remove ‘unhackable’ tag from marketing materials
AUGUST 30: Fiserv Data Breach May Have Affected Numerous Banks & Credit Unions
AUGUST 30: Spain's Central Bank Knocked Offline after DDoS Attack
AUGUST 20: Phishing scam claims recall on exploding Barclays credit cards
AUGUST 3: TCM Bank Leaked Applicant Data for 16 Months
JULY 24: Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M
JUNE 15: Central Bank fines Appian Asset Management over cyber breach