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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. The company’s description of the incident suggested ransomware. Some payment card data was also exposed.

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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. 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.

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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.

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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. 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 Date breached: 384,658,212 records.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

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Ransomware. Ransomware. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold.

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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: 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