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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

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It is not known how long the database was publicly available, nor whether anyone else accessed it. Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Date breached: 384,658,212 records. ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang adds 2.7

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

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Further victims of last year’s Perry Johnson & Associates data breach identified Last year, the medical transcription company PJ&A (Perry Johnson & Associates) suffered a data breach in which an unauthorised third party was able to access its computer network. TB Cole, Cole, Easley & Sciba Source New Legal USA Yes 1.5

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

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It also appears that the data was accessed: the Readme bot “partially destroyed” the open instance, injecting a ransom note with a bitcoin wallet address to send a payment to in exchange for the files. According to CyberNews , more than 300 million data records were compromised, including 21,000 telephone numbers and 31,000 email addresses.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

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GhostR says it obtained the records from a Singapore-based company with access to the database. Mobile Guardian, which is based in the UK, said that its investigations detected unauthorised access to its systems via an administrative account on its management portal. Account records from the United States were also accessed.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 19 – 25 February 2024

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Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight loanDepot rep orts an extra 324,071 victims In January, the mortgage lender loanDepot announced in an SEC filing that an unauthorised third party had gained access to the sensitive personal information of about 16.6 GB Tiete Automobile Source (New) Retail Brazil Yes 68.5

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

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Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,469 Three GreatStar Industrial Co. Source (New) Manufacturing Japan Yes Unknown Midland Industries Source (New) Retail USA Yes Unknown Rosen’s Diversified, Inc.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

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ru Source (New) Retail Russia Yes 38,694 Richmont Graduate University Source (New) Education USA Yes 37 GB CBIZ KA Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,295 La Red Health Center Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 35,602 Kinetic Leasing, Inc. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes >400 GB Hafez Insurance Co.