Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A ransomware attack on Great Plains Regional Medical Center compromised personal data of 133,000 individuals, exposing sensitive information. On September 8, 2024, Great Plains Regional Medical Center (Oklahoma) suffered a ransomware attack. “On September 8, 2024, we suffered a ransomware attack on our computer system.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The July 2024 ransomware attack that hit the City of Columbus, Ohio, exposed the personal and financial data of 500,000 individuals. On July 29, 2024, the City published an update on the City’s website and confirmed that the City of Columbus suffered a ransomware attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

The Cloak ransomware group claims responsibility for a cyberattack on the Virginia Attorney Generals Office that occurred in February. The ransomware group Cloak has claimed responsibility for a February cyberattack on the Virginia Attorney General Office.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

The American venture capital firm Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) disclosed a ransomware attack, crooks also stole data of some private investors. The venture capital firm this week disclosed a ransomware attack, threat actors have also stolen the personal information of some of its private investors. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

The digital imaging products manufacturer OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 ransomware attack. In 2023, the imaging sensors manufacturer was the victim of a Cactus ransomware attack. ” reads the data Breach Notification. The Cactus ransomware relies on multiple legitimate tools (e.g.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Insurance giant CNA notifies customers of a data breach after the Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack suffered in March. US insurance giant CNA is notifying customers of a data breach after the ransomware attack that it suffered in March. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As if the scourge of ransomware wasn’t bad enough already: Several prominent purveyors of ransomware have signaled they plan to start publishing data stolen from victims who refuse to pay up. The message displayed at the top of the Maze Ransomware public shaming site. Follow the news!”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2024

Kootenai Health suffered a data breach impacting over 464,000 patients following a 3AM ransomware attack. Kootenai Health disclosed a data breach impacting over 464,088 patients following the leak of their personal information by the ThreeAM (3AM) ransomware gang.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin disclosed a data breach that impacted over 500,000 individuals. The organization disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack, the incident impacted 533,809 individuals. “The attacker attempted to encrypt GHC-SCW’s system but was unsuccessful.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2019

PerCSoft , a Wisconsin-based company that manages a remote data backup service relied upon by hundreds of dental offices across the country, is struggling to restore access to client systems after falling victim to a ransomware attack. The ransomware attack hit PerCSoft on the morning of Monday, Aug. West Allis, Wis.-based

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

According to a Monday Twitter update posted by Uber, Lapsus$ ransomware spreading gang is suspected to be behind the cyber attack on its repositories, email and cloud systems and internal slack communication servers. And the data breach could have taken place after the credential steal.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Companies hit by ransomware often face a dual threat: Even if they avoid paying the ransom and can restore things from scratch, about half the time the attackers also threaten to release sensitive stolen data unless the victim pays for a promise to have the data deleted. The data was lost at the point when it was exfiltrated.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2024

238,000 Comcast customers were impacted by the FBCS data breach following the February ransomware attack, Comcast reports. Telecommunications giant Comcast is notifying approximately 238,000 customers impacted by the Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) data breach. reads the notice of data breach.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

With data breaches on the rise, encryption has never been more important for protecting companies against hackers and cyberattacks. The post Data encryption as a crucial step to manage data access and security appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2019

Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. “The attack impacted data belonging to certain iNSYNQ clients, rendering such data inaccessible,” the company said.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

The Qilin ransomware group claims responsibility for attacking the newspaper Lee Enterprises, stealing 350GB of data. The Qilin ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on Lee Enterprises, which impacted dozens of local newspapers. Lee Enterprises , Inc. is a publicly traded American media company.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

Financial services company LoanDepot disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 LoanDepot disclosed this week a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 LoanDepot disclosed this week a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 million individuals. million individuals. million individuals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 23, 2022

A ransomware attack has led to the leak of personal information of students and staff at the Chicago Public Schools(CPS) and information is out that the incident which took place in December last year was revealed to the public on April 25th this year.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. Ransomware Still Reigns Supreme Ransomware attacks continue to plague organizations globally, and 2024 will be no different.

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Hacker Combat

JULY 16, 2021

World-renowned fashion retailer; Guess confirmed over the course of the past week that some of its clients had their confidential data compromised in a brutal ransomware attack that the fashion giant first noted in February of this year. The company goes on to say that it first noted the attack on the 19 th of February.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Energy management and industrial automation firm Schneider Electric suffered a data breach after a Cactus ransomware attack. BleepingComputer contacted Schneider Electric which confirmed the data breach. The Cactus ransomware relies on multiple legitimate tools (e.g.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Ransomware groups now steal, encrypt, and threaten to leak company data on the dark web, forcing victims to pay or risk exposing sensitive information.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. Reached by phone today, Jansson said he quit the company in August, right around the time Gunnebo disclosed the thwarted ransomware attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2023

Cybersecurity Insiders learnt from its sources that the attack took place last year, when hackers induced a file encrypting malware into the company’s network in March 2022. A week later, forensic experts hired from a 3rd party firm confirmed the incident as a ransomware attack and started an inquiry.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Play Ransomware gang is suspected to be behind the incident. NOTE- Play Ransomware aka PlayCrypt is a kind of file encrypting malware that was first identified in June 2022. The post Arnold Clark data breach leads to identity theft appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

Another American hospital falls victim to a ransomware attack; the RansomHouse gang announced the hack of Loretto Hospital in Chicago.” ” The RansomHouse gang announced the hack of Loretto Hospital in Chicago, the groups claims to have stolen 1.5TB of sensitive data. They shame non-payers by leaking data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Expanding the Investigation: Deep Dive into Latest TrickMo Samples HijackLoader evolution: abusing genuine signing certificates FASTCash for Linux Water Makara Uses Obfuscated JavaScript in Spear Phishing Campaign, Targets Brazil With Astaroth Malware Technical Analysis of DarkVision RAT Encrypted Symphony: Infiltrating the Cicada3301 Ransomware-as-a-Service (..)

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2022

So, if you download a malicious file on your local device, there’s a route from there to your business’ cloud—where it can access, infect, and encrypt company data. This kind of ransomware attack is also known as “Ransomcloud”. Given this, it’s not surprising that there have been many cloud storage data breaches in recent years.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2024

As high-profile data breaches and leaks continue making headlines, a new report from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) examines the triple-whammy of factors enabling this tidal wave of personal data theft. These escalations have made ransomware an even more potent data breach threat.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Family Medical Center (FMC) of Michigan, a healthcare center supported by government funding, was targeted by a ransomware attack in July this year. Preliminary inquires revealed that the hackers could have accessed patient info and some medical research work along with the financial credit data.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 22, 2023

ESO Solutions, a key software provider for healthcare and emergency services, was the victim of a ransomware attack. This cyberattack led to unauthorized data access and encryption of various company systems. Extent of data exposure During […] The post Major Data Breach at ESO Solutions Affects 2.7

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2024

Dell, one of the world's largest technology companies, has just disclosed a major data breach that may have compromised the personal information of tens of millions of current and former customers. The breach went undetected for several months before finally being discovered in early 2023.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has stepped in to ensure patients are made aware if their sensitive data was compromised during February's massive cyberattack on health IT firm Change Healthcare. While no specific individuals have been publicly identified as impacted, the scope of the breach raised alarms.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The company acted quickly, pausing billing operations to assess the extent of the damage and protect customer data. Similar incidents have occurred in the past, such as the 2021 ransomware attack on a water treatment facility in Florida, where hackers attempted to poison the water supply by altering chemical levels.

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