Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

In December 2023, VF Corp announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack and was forced to take some systems down to contain the threat. The incident interrupted retail store inventory replenishment and delayed order fulfillment. In 2015, the company controlled 55% of the U.S. million customers. ” concludes the Form 8-K.

Data breaches 113

Data breaches Passwords Retail Insurance 113

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

Ransomware. Ransomware. discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown). Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. In other news…. Cyber attacks. Find out more.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Retail 130

IT Governance

JUNE 30, 2022

Ransomware. million) Brazilian retailer Fast Shop confirms cyber attack (unknown) ADM Associates announces security incident (unknown) Guardian Fueling Technologies has been hacked (unknown) Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc. You can find the full list below, broken down into categories. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information.

Data breaches 136

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Blockchain 136

IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2019

US food giant Mondelez is suing insurance company Zurich American for denying a $100 million (£76 million) claim filed after the NotPetya attack. The confectioner, which owns Cadbury and Oreo, says it lost 1,700 servers and 24,000 laptops as the ransomware swept through its systems. Perilous future for cyber insurance.

Insurance 53

Insurance Ransomware Government Paper 53

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Ransomware. Ransomware. You can find the full list below, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information. In other news….

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Education 126

IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

We typically expect ambiguity when it comes to ransomware, because organisations are locked out of their files and can’t calculate what’s been affected. Ransomware. Ransomware. The issue is that in far more cases than we’d expect, the number of breached records wasn’t included in the notification, so we can’t include it here.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Manufacturing e-Delivery 130

IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

At least 191 Australian organisations affected by ZircoDATA ransomware attack The ransomware group BlackBasta listed Australia-based ZircoDATA as a victim in February, allegedly exfiltrating 395 GB of data. Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 75,101 Airsoftc3.com Data breached: 1,201,000 people’s data.

Data breaches 59

Data breaches Education Manufacturing Retail 59

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang adds 2.7 TB of ASA Electronics data to its leak site The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is attempting to extort a ransom from ASA Electronics for 2.7 Welfare Benefits Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 13,079 Insurance ACE/Humana Inc. Date breached: 384,658,212 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Ransomware. Ransomware. d/b/a Watson Electrical announces ransomware attack (unknown). d/b/a Watson Electrical announces ransomware attack (unknown). In total, we identified 112 publicly disclosed security incidents in August, resulting in 97,456,345 compromised records. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. In other news….

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 116

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. TB KSA Architecture Source New Construction and real estate USA Yes 1.5 TB Cole, Cole, Easley & Sciba Source New Legal USA Yes 1.5

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

Ransomware. Ransomware. We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information. In other news….

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Demant, a leading international hearing health care company, expects to incur losses of up to $95 million following a ransomware attack. Last month, Demant suffered a cyber attack that caused important problems to its operations, the company has yet to recover after the attack, a circumstance that suggests it was hit by a ransomware attack.

Sales 75

Sales Ransomware Retail Insurance 75

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Luxottica was hit by a ransomware attack that took place on September 18.

Data breaches 75

Data breaches Insurance Retail Ransomware 75

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers. Data breached: 41,500,000 records.

Data Privacy 75

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 75

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2020

Ransomware will continue to increase. Cyber insurance has in some regions encouraged victims to pay as it is cheaper than remediation in some cases. The complexity of ransomware is such that there have been decoders released by attackers that have bugs that prevent the decryption of the data. Open banking will be targeted.

Security 98

Security IoT Phishing Ransomware 98

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

27 Israeli organisations with e-commerce websites, likely in either the retail or manufacturing sector, but we can’t be sure at this time. Furthermore, thanks to laws like HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), data breaches in the healthcare sector are more likely to be reported.

Data breaches 113

Data breaches Ransomware Access Security 113

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

Prometei has been observed to be active in systems across a variety of industries, including: Finance, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Utilities, Travel, and Construction.” . “The victimology is quite random and opportunistic rather than highly targeted, which makes it even more dangerous and widespread.

Mining 64

Mining Retail Insurance Manufacturing 64

KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The users were able to impersonate an infinite number of entities (such as banks, retail companies and government institutions) for financial gain and substantial losses to victims. Ransomware, Ransom-war and Ran-some-where: What We Can Learn When the Hackers Get Hacked. Ransomware strikes organizations almost every two seconds.

Security awareness 87

Security awareness Phishing Risk Insurance 87

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Small to Medium Business are, today, the target of APTs and ransomware. Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. VAMOSI: Cybersecurity insurance.

Insurance 40

Insurance Privacy Ransomware GDPR 40

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

According to the newly released 2019 edition of Symantec’s annual Internet Security Threat Report , formjacking has overtaken ransomware and cryptojacking as cyber criminals’ attack vector of choice. million of this amount, the rest being covered by insurance. It’s essentially a virtual form of card skimming.

Passwords 76

Passwords Data breaches Retail Government 76

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. Here’s a closer look at the activities of Mr. . Department of the Treasury reads.

Ransomware 233

Ransomware Retail Insurance Government 233

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Panelists were presented with two consumer harm and injury hypotheticals (one in a privacy context, based on retail tracking and marketing, and one in a security context, based on unauthorized access to company consumer data) and asked to assess at which stage of the hypothetical they believed consumer injury was taking place.

Privacy 42

Privacy Retail Risk Insurance 42

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. population 12,046, paid $460,000, respectively, for ransomware decryption keys. Ransomware attacks are trendy again,” Weller told me. “If

Ransomware 153

Ransomware Government Retail Security 153

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

A month later, a ransomware attack shut down the company’s operations in Italy and China. MCNA Insurance MCNA Insurance, also known as MCNA Dental, was caught up in a cyber hacking incident last week, in which 112 covered entities were affected. PharMerica The US pharmacy network PharMerica began notifying 5.8

Data breaches 122

Data breaches Insurance Personal data Ransomware 122

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

TB exfiltrated Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (Xfinity) Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Telecoms USA Yes 35,879,455 Tecnoquadri Srl Source (New) Manufacturing Italy Yes 33,000,000 Asia Insurance Co.

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Insurance Manufacturing Retail 107

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The company’s description of the incident suggested ransomware. This was confirmed about a fortnight later, in early November, when the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group took responsibility for the attack , claiming to have encrypted Henry Schein’s files and exfiltrated 35 TB of data. Data breached: over 300 million records.

Data Privacy 106

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 106

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,588,849 Keenan & Associates Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 1,509,616 AGC Group Source (New) Manufacturing Japan Yes 1.5 TB Four Hands Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1.5 TB UK forex customers Source (New) Finance UK Yes 1,001,214 A.N.S.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

suffers second ransomware attack in months Having been struck by a ransomware attack in October by the BlackSuit group , which led to operations and appointments being postponed, Akumin Inc. has suffered a second attack, this time by the BianLian ransomware group. Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,469 Three GreatStar Industrial Co.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

Passwords 233

Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Encryption 233

IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

Other databases contained health insurance data, such as patents’ names, dates of birth, addresses and medical data. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5 The biggest database in the blob contained 3.1 million patients and 1.6 million unique Social Security numbers. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1.1

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Security Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Source (New) Retail Italy Yes 436,932 Toner-dumping.de Source (New) Retail Germany Yes 334,000 Yakima Valley Radiology, PC Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 235,249 Consorzio Innovation Source (New) Professional services Italy Yes 225 GB Northeast Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 177,276 Strike.me

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

Cloud, FL Source (Update) Public USA Yes 719,597 Regulator Marine Inc Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 630 GB Risas Dental and Braces Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 618,189 HUB International Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 514,477 Lee University Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Education USA Yes 387.49

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. Ransomware. Ransomware. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

Known records breached Naz.API (likely belonging to multiple organisations) Source (New) Unknown Unknown Yes 70,840,771 VF Corporation Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Retail USA Yes 35,500,000 Pastelería Mozart Source (New) Hospitality Chile Yes 10,870,524 Foxsemicon Integrated Technology, Inc. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schneider Electric hit by Cactus ransomware The Sustainability Business division of the energy company Schneider Electric suffered a ransomware attack on 17 January, disrupting the company’s Resource Advisor platform. Data breached: 13,300,000 records.

Data Privacy 88

Data Privacy Privacy Insurance Security 88

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The breached data may include names, Social Security numbers and health insurance information. For some victims, the stolen data also included Social Security numbers and health insurance information. GB Tiete Automobile Source (New) Retail Brazil Yes 68.5 Data breached: 4,662,668 individuals’ data.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Data breaches 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

More than 135,000 residents have been affected by the incident, which is believed to have been caused by ransomware. What is ransomware? Ransomware is a specific type of malware that encrypts computer files, essentially locking the owner out of their systems.

Ransomware 95

Ransomware Phishing Retail Insurance 95