Cyber attacks March 2021
- Hackers obtain sensitive data on UK aid projects overseas
- University of the Highlands and Islands working to recover from cyber attack
- Pupils’ data destroyed after attack on Redborne Upper School and Community College
- Chinese hackers target Indian vaccine makers SII, Bharat Biotech
- City of Kingman, AZ, hit by cyber attack
- Italian manufacturer Caffitaly impacted by attack on a supplier
- Malaysia Airlines tells its frequent flyer members that their data may have been compromised
- Social network platform Gab hacked after rookie coding error
- Cyber attack affecting Hanover Area School District
- Security breach prompts lockdown of some Manitoba student databases
- PA-based Millersville University confirms external cyber attack
- Elite cyber crime forum “Maza” breached
- Texas-based ProPath notifies patients of employee email breach
- Elara Caring notifies patients after corporate email accounts hacked
- St. Agnes Medical Center patient data compromised in email breach at St. Alphonsus
- American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association hacked
- Website of the attorney representing one of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s accusers hacked
- Czech officials in Prague ‘hit by massive cyber attack’
- Brazil’s CPTrans website and the Educa em Casa platform hacked
- Houston-area school district investigates troubling messages sent during breach
- Hackers breach security cameras from start-up Verkada
- Two charged for copying and deleting data from an unnamed New York company
- PEI-Genesis says employee email account was compromised
- New Jersey employment portal hit by cyber criminals
- Treasure Valley residents receiving letters from Saint Alphonsus saying they are dead
- Unauthorised access occurred in Japanese retailer Urban Research
- Walmart discloses unauthorised access
- Norway’s parliament hit by new hack attack
- Fastway Couriers notifies Irish Data Protection Commission of a hack
- Overseas Service Corporation caught out by phishing scam
- The city administration of Ebeleben hit by cyber criminals
- Florida law firm Sachs Sax Caplan notifies individuals of email hack
- The Canada Revenue Agency locks accounts amid suspected phishing attack
- South African insurance firm PPS hit by cyber attack
- EDAG Engineering Group AG affected by cyber attack
- Michigan’s Troy School District website down after hacking from outside US
- The Coleman Group of Companies caught cyber criminals in the act
- Hackers broke into the system of three Prague polyclinics
- Nikkei’s Hong Kong affiliate hit by unauthorized access
- Eastern Health cyber ‘incident’ cancels some surgeries across Melbourne
- New Zealand’s Lumino dental firm suffers email hack
- Police are investigating a cyber attack on paint manufacturer Remmers
- Washington state’s Douglas County targeted in cyber attack
- Brazil’s Celg Geração e Transmissão suffers cyber attack
- Mendelson Kornblum Orthopedic and Spine Specialists notifies patients of breach
- Eyemart Express notifies patients of breach
- Maricopa County Community College District cancels classes after attack
- Kentucky Wesleyan College notice of data security incident
- Missouri’s Park Hill schools closed Monday due to malware attack
- MangaDex website taken offline following cyber attack
- DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin says employee email was hacked
- Texas’s Sewell Family of Companies discloses breach
- Czech Republic’s railway administration attacked by hackers
- Threat actors leak files with protected health information from U. Miami
- Heart of Texas Community Health Center notifies some patients of email-related breach
- Solairus Aviation notice regarding Avianis data security incident
- Polk County School District reveals third-party breach from 2019
- Haven Behavioral Hospital provides notice of data incident
- Mott Community College, Michigan, reports cyber attack
- Cyber security insurance firm CAN systems offline amid ongoing attack
- Dutch car company RDC.nl hit by cyber criminals
- Artificial snow manufacturer MND suffers malware attack
- Guns.com hacked, spilling gun owner info over the dark web
- Jefit data incident public announcement
- Lexington Medical Center discloses vendor’s patient records data breach
- Online food delivery chain Yemeksepeti hit by cyber attack
- Channel Nine cyber attack disrupts live broadcasts in Australia
- Singaporean retailer Vhive alerts consumers to cyber attack
Ransomware March 2021
- Fifteen schools in Nottinghamshire crippled by cyber attack
- South and City College Birmingham closed for a week after ransomware attack
- South Gloucestershire schools hit by ransomware attack
- MBA Group held to ransom by cyber attackers
- Dutch e-Ticketing platform Ticketcounter has suffered a security incident
- Lot-et-Garonne firefighters victims of a cyber attack
- Israeli car financing company KLS Capital hacked
- Tri County Sheriff Dispatch hit with ransomware attack
- Hackers hit Indians with ransomware supporting farmers
- Crypto firm Tether says it won’t pay $24 million ransom
- The Accellion breach also impacted Qualys; threat actors start dumping files
- Southern Illinois University School of Medicine impacted by Accellion breach
- Payroll giant PrismHR outage likely caused by ransomware attack
- Atlanta Allergy & Asthma hit by Nefilim threat actors
- Navajo Nation hospital targeted by large-scale ransomware hack
- AllyAlign notifies members and providers of ransomware attack
- Woodcreek Provider Services notifies patients of ransomware incident
- Spirit Airlines hit by Nefilim ransomware
- Arizona Complete Health notifies plan members of Accellion breach
- Sandhills Medical Foundation notifies patients of vendor breach
- Texas Medicaid subcontractor dumped after data breach in ransomware attack
- Japanese consulting firm hit with ransomware
- Arillium Community Health Plan in Oregon affected by Acceliion breach
- Nova Scotia health-care workers may have been compromised by Accellion breach
- French hospital Centre Hospitalier Général d’Oloron falls victim to ransomware
- Spain’s public employment system was attacked by ransomware
- Transport NSW documents posted on dark web after Accellion hack
- Flagstar Bank loses customers’ social security numbers after Accellion attack
- Outage at Molson Coors suggests ransomware attack
- City of Covington, Louisiana hit by ransomware
- Preferred Home Care of New York notifies those affected by ransomware attack
- Buffalo Public Schools hit by ransomware
- Total Life Healthcare data breached in ransomware attack
- Newberry County Memorial Hospital experienced ransomware attack
- The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona hit by ransomware
- Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Smart City suffers ransomware attack
- Tech manufacturer Acer hit by ransomware
- Stratus Technologies hit suffers ransomware attack
- Canada’s Sierra Wireless announces ransomware attack
- City of Frankfort, Kentucky, held to ransom
- Military supplier PDI Group hit by ransomware
- Alton, IL, hit by suspected ransomware attack
- Personal Touch Holding Corp. hit by ransomware attack at MSP
- Broward County Public Schools suffers ransomware attack
- Hackers demand ransom from Town of Didsbury in cyber attack
- Hackers hit Harris Foundation in latest ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber attack
- Gene therapy firm YposKesi targeted by ransomware
- Ransomware gang is threatening to release data stolen from shipping firm ECU Worldwide
Data breaches March 2021
- Solicitor caught dumping client files in the street
- Ministry of Defence secrets exposed by people sending files to personal email accounts
- Details of ‘vulnerable kids’ uploaded to Birmingham City Council website in ‘serious’ data breach
- Intelligence company Polecat left 30TB server exposed
- Health and Welfare Department of West Bengal leaks COVID-19 data
- Singapore Airlines customers leaked in SITA security breach
- Right-wing militants furious after data leak exposes their involvement in paramilitary group
- Data leak at Dutch foreign credential assessment service
- A bug in a popular iPhone app exposed thousands of call recordings
- Personal information Premier Diagnostics customers exposed on unsecured server
- Victoria privacy breach of vulnerable youth data
- SEO-Küche left employee and customer data exposed online
- Emails of Walworth Co. COVID vaccination registrants accidentally shared
- West Coast health board in privacy blunder involving medical information
- Line app allowed Chinese firm to access personal user data
- New Zealand IRD sent details of baby to complete stranger and paid her $240
- Apperta Foundation employee censured after disclosing vulnerability
- New Zealand’s Canterbury District Health Board apologizes for software privacy breach
Financial information
- Midlands News Association exposed journalists’ personal data
- Fatface says customers’ card details were hacked, asked them to keep it secret
- Hollywood’s elite private schools hacked
- Delco School District says hackers stole millions of dollars
- Security Industry Specialists notifies those affected by malware attack
- WeLeakInfo leaked customer payment info
- Florida’s Leon County Schools website hacked during spring break
Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents
- IT technician jailed after installing software onto work computers to spy on colleagues
- Petersburg Medical Center reports malicious insider use
- Snooping employee showed interest in pregnant women’s medical records
- UPMC St. Margaret patients’ info shared with unauthorized organisation
- Spectrum Health post sensitive info in background of social media posts
- Atascadero State Hospital discloses insider misuse
