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The 23andMe data leak was a data breach at personal genomics company 23andMe reported in October 2023. The cyberattack gathered profile and ethnicity information from millions of users. The affected customers were reported as primarily Ashkenazi Jews but also including hundreds of thousands of ethnically Chinese users. [1]
According to cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the MOVEit vulnerability began being used on May 27, 2023. Responsibility. According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the breaches are being conducted by Cl0p, a Russian-affiliated cyber gang. Impact
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history, the attack was carried out by an advanced persistent threat based ...
The Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau received the data from the United States Department of Justice through a mutual legal assistance treaty. The Bureau provided the data to the HSE on 17 December 2021. The HSE confirmed that said data was taken from its computers. The HSE also contacted the Data Protection Commissioner about the data.
On May 31, 2022, at dawn, the Hive Ransomware Group carried out an attack against the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, forcing the institution to turn off all of its critical systems, including the Unique Digital Health File and the Centralized Collection System. [16] [17] The former stores sensitive medical information of patients using ...
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the ...
British Library cyberattack. In October 2023 Rhysida, a hacker group, attacked the online information systems of the British Library. They demanded a ransom of 20 bitcoin, at the time around £ 596,000, to restore services and return the stolen data. When the British Library did not acquiesce to the attempt, Rhysida publicly released ...
Cyber Week — the five-day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday — brought a windfall of $38 billion. Cyber Monday rings in $12.4 billion in sales as consumers hunt for bargains [Video ...