A string of ransomware attacks on multiple hospitals has likely caused a nail-biting pandemic in hospital IT departments across the globe this month.
On top of ransomware attacks, there have been plenty of data breaches, and even a DDoS on a chess tournament’s website that has been called “controversial” because of its exclusivity. A motive, perhaps?
Data breach
3,000 Tidewater Community College workers victimized in W-2 scam
Attacker compromises information of 250K in Bailey’s data breach
Karmanos Cancer Center patient info at risk from lost flash drive
Stolen laptop exposes PII of over 200K Premier Healthcare patients
Crooks Steal, Sell Verizon Enterprise Customer Data
Thieves Phish Moneytree Employee Tax Data
Seagate Phish Exposes All Employee W-2’s
Hacker breaches USA Cycling, personal information at risk
1-800 FLOWERS warns that hacker may have stolen customers’ personal info
Data breach puts southern expats’ personal details online
Hackers reportedly access OpSec employee data
18 million stolen IDs discovered on server / Criminals in China got illegal access
JASACare notifies 1,154 patients of breach
Ransomware
German hospitals being held ransom by cyber attackers
Hospital Declares ‘Internal State of Emergency’ After Ransomware Infection
Ransomware forces hospital networks to shut down, resort to paper
Canadian hospital’s website hacked to serve up Teslacrypt ransomware
Mac users hit by rare ransomware attack, spread via Transmission BitTorrent app
Scam artists hack restaurant computer, demand $10K
Financial
Cyber criminals steal $25 million from Russian banks via phishing attack
Rosen Hotel chain was hit by credit card-stealing malware for 17 months
City Council issues one thousand apology letters following financial data breach
Discover Financial Services reports two breaches to California AG
Here’s How Hackers Stole $80 Million from Bangladesh Bank
DDoS
Hackers Target Anti-DDoS Firm Staminus
Controversial world chess tournament website struck by denial-of-service attack
Other
Install iOS 9.3 to fix serious iMessages encryption flaw
Photos of Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner leak online after iCloud account hack
LeapFrog child’s toy found susceptible to attacks leveraging Adobe Flash
RSA Conference badge-scanning smartphones exhibit poor security
Fighting back against cyber crime
Ransomware author’s bravado shot down by release of decryption keys
6 charged with manufacturing lottery luck
US indicts 7 Iranians for cyber attacks against Wall Street, NY dam
Facebook’s testing a feature that alerts you if someone’s impersonating you
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