This month’s list is a little earlier than usual, so I expect that I’ll be updating it more than usual over the remainder of the month. Keep revisiting it to see new additions.
It’s been an interesting month. While there haven’t been any large-scale data breaches (that we’re aware of) so far this month, there have been several data dumps posted online from previous breaches.
One of these dumps included the 51 million iMesh passwords that were stolen from a breach back in September 2013. Now, if the world’s population practised good password security and used unique passwords for every online account they have, this wouldn’t be much of an issue, especially since iMesh no longer exists. However, password reuse is as common as the air, and those who had an iMesh account in 2013 may want to consider changing their login credentials on sites where they’ve used the same password.
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At the time of publication, I have the number of known leaked records this month (that’s including those that have just come to light) at 289,526,590.
Data breach
154 million voter records exposed, revealing gun ownership, Facebook profiles, and more
77K accounts of Financial Giant, State Farm, leaked due to DAC Group Hack
Muslim Match dating website hack exposes more than half a million intimate messages
45 million records from over 1100 Verticalscope.com domains and communities hacked and leaked
51 Million iMesh Passwords Dumped Online
Personal info on 7.93 million people feared leaked
GoToMyPC suffers “sophisticated password attack”
397 medical records snooped at Hamilton General Hospital
ENT and Allergy Center of Arkansas notifying patients of Bizmatics security incident
Walmart vendor error exposed limited patient information
Vermont Fish and Wildlife reports license data breach
Courthouse data breach exposes personal information
Island Health says staff snooped on 198 patient files
Let’s encrypt accidentally spills 7,600 user emails
Hacker breaches University of Greenwich, exposes 21,000 people’s data
Patient privacy breached at Credit Valley Hospital after health records ‘improperly accessed’
LeakedSource uploads data set with 32,888,300 Twitter credentials
uTorrent forums hacked, passwords compromised
Cyber-attack has Cowboys Casino scrambling
Cyber attack
Janesville computer systems hit by virus, likely ‘ransomware’
Virus hits city server; resident data not likely breached
Cryptocurrency-Backed Venture Capital Fund Hacked; Ether Plunges
Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump
North Korea hacked 140,000 South Korean computers in a huge campaign
Dell Official Website Subdomains Hacked By Kurdish Hackers
Karnataka Police website hacked
Scrum.org hacked, may have lost crypto keys and some user data
Overwatch servers down in possible Lizard Squad DDOS attack
Muslim Brotherhood’s Website Suffers DDoS Attacks and Data Leak
Financial information
Acer Admits 34,000 Credit Cards Stolen In Hack
Sh0ping.su Hacked, Thousands of Credit Cards and Accounts Leaked
Credit Card Breach at CiCi’s Pizza
Fighting back against cyber crime
Police arrest S. Korean teenager suspected of hacking thousands of websites
T-Mobile Employee Arrested for Trying to Sell Customer Data
Russian Police Arrests 50 Hackers in Its Largest Cybercrime Bust
A key takeaway from this month’s list is that cyber crime does not wait. As the EU referendum looms, organisations are holding back on all forms of spending and waiting to see if the UK will be leaving the European Union. This is far from smart
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Trends and traits of data breaches
To help you understand the trends and traits of data breaches, what they are, how and why they occur, and what you can do to avoid suffering a similar fate, take a look at our book of the month: Managing Information Security Breaches – Studies from real life by Michael Krausz.
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