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

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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.

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Ransomware group Dark Angels claims the theft of 1TB of data from chipmaker Nexperia 

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Nexperia is a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The chipmaker confirmed it became aware of the unauthorized access to certain Nexperia IT servers in March 2024. It is a subsidiary of the partially state-owned Chinese company Wingtech Technology. All data is confidential, contains trade secrets. -

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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. million LivaNova Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing UK Yes 2.2 million LivaNova Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing UK Yes 2.2 Source (New) Manufacturing Canada Yes 1.2 Akumin Inc.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

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Source (New) Manufacturing Taiwan Yes 4,715,133 Mustafa Centre Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Retail Singapore Yes >3,5000,000 TRAXERO Source (New) Software USA Yes 2,634,753 Piping Rock Health Products Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 2,103,100 FBCS, Inc. iSharing is used by more than 35 million users.

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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. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1,212 Butte School District Source (New) Education USA Yes 900+ Fenway Community Health Center, Inc.

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As of May 2024, Black Basta ransomware affiliates hacked over 500 organizations worldwide

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In December 2023, Elliptic and Corvus Insurance published a joint research that revealed the group accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022. Most of the victims are in the manufacturing, engineering and construction, and retail sectors. ” reads the CSA. The average ransom payment was $1.2

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McLaren Health Care revealed that a data breach impacted 2.2 million people

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The investigation revealed that threat actors gained unauthorized access to McLaren’s network between July 28, 2023, and August 23, 2023. “On August 31, 2023, McLaren learned the unauthorized actor had the ability to acquire certain information stored on the network during the period of access.