This time last year, cyber criminals responsible for the Ashley Madison data breach uploaded 9.7GB of data that would later cause relationship issues, divorces and even suicides.
Thankfully, no such breach has occurred this August – however, there’s been no slowdown in the number of breaches and cyber attacks.
Last August, I listed 28 breaches and cyber attacks – this August is 49 and I still have more to add.
Data breach
SCAN Health Plan notifying members of unauthorized access to their information
Dominican Hospital notifies patients whose PHI was sent to wrong health plan
Epic’s forums hacked again, with thousands of logins stolen
Personal information of Pulse victims, survivors breached, Orlando Health says
Beauty site lets anyone read customers’ personal information
Patient data stolen from Quaid-i-Azam Hospital
Omegle, the Popular ‘Chat with Strangers’ Service Leaks Your Dirty Chats and Personal Info
Data for 6 Million Minecraft Gamers Stolen from Leet.cc Servers
Data security breach at local neurosurgical center
SocialBlade hacked – LeakedSource
Hampshire County Council fined £100,000 after confidential social services papers found
Virgin Mobile voicemail madness: privacy breach as customers’ gain access to strangers’ messages
Hacker Publishes List Of Cell Phone Numbers, Private E-Mails For Most House Democrats
655K Bon Secours patients’ info exposed, free ID protection offered
Personal data of 3,700 Ede residents leaked through municipal site
Laptop stolen from EXOS contained protected health information
Professional Dermatology Care, P.C notifies 13,237 patients after ransomware attack
Data Breach At Oracle’s MICROS Point-of-Sale Division
Glassdoor ‘Carelessly’ Exposed 600K Users’ Emails, Suit Says
New Haven Probes Possible Data Breach
Carle health system warns of data breach due to vendor error
Apple, Intel, Google Employee Accounts Exposed in Data Breach of Developer Forum
Massive Cyber Attack at Banner Health Affects 3.7M Individuals
Iranian ISP ‘Daba’ Hacked by Israeli Hacker; Login Data Leaked
Uncommon Care, PA notifies almost 14,000 patients of Bizmatics breach
American Family Care notifies 7,200 patients of breach involving PHI
FTSE 100 company Sage announces data breach, shares drop 3.9%
Cyber attack
Turkish Hackers Launch Second Cyber-Attack on Killeen’s Website
Defense university computers hacked, ‘information secure’
Olympics: Hackers attack Russian whistleblower’s doping account
Australian census website collapses due to ‘malicious foreign hackers’
Hack attempt on Garda computers forced shutdown of systems
Marin electronic medical record system hacked, ransom paid
Ransomware attack on Delhi-based diagnostic centre
Pokemon GO DDoS Attacks Postponed as PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach
Pokémon Go CEO Twitter account hacked – password was “nopass”
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales didn’t die this weekend, despite what his hacked Twitter account said
City of Sarasota hit with ransomware
Financial information
Miner Norton Gold Fields blames human error for leak of employees’ personal and financial details
Personal information for hundreds of people found along CLE roadside
1,800 possibly affected by Anderson County government computer breach
Bitfinex Suspends Operations after Security Breach
Banks on the defense following Vietnam Airlines data breach
POS malware hits Eddie Bauer clothing stores
HEI Hotels & Resorts suffers POS terminal breach
Other
California dentist notifies patients of backup drive stolen from car
Managing Information Security Breaches
Each month, I’m contacted by organisations that are finally understanding that threats to their and their customers’ data are real – and are seeking advice on what they can do to avoid finding themselves on my monthly list.
I often reference Michael Krausz’s publication Managing Information Security Breaches – Studies from real life, Second edition as an ideal start to understanding information security breaches, and how they can be avoided and treated.
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interesting post Lewis. thanks for sharing.