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June 2019
SPAMfighter News 2019/6/28
Security breach at Eurofins stalls outsourcing of case work by UK police
An investigation is going on into one cyber assault carried out against a key scientific firm that the United Kingdom police use for conducting
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/28
NSHA suffers data breach of around 3,000 people
The NSHA is going to notify around 3,000 people regarding a possible privacy breach involving the personal health information, announced the
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/27
Hopkins County School affected by a data breach
Hopkins County School has suffered from a data breach, when an unidentified user has compromised the password-protected Infinite Campus account of a
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/27
Former IT Director of The Corp was convicted for computer fraud
Justice Suh for hacking email system of The Corp's was pleaded guilty on one count of computer fraud. The federal government has charged Suh in the
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/26
Florida city victim of ransomware attack decides paying the hackers
In Florida, a particular city has been hit hard with crypto ransomware assaults which have made it to adjust by force. The City Council of Riviera
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/26
Auburn Food Bank become victim of a ransomware attack
Auburn Food Bank of King County, Washington, become victim of a ransomware strain called GlobeImposter 2.0, which has encrypted all the computers on
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/26
‘Triple Threat’ ransomware attack affected Lake City’s email systems
The Police Department of Lake City is investigating about the ransomware attack on its city network systems, which has resulted in shutdown of a
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/25
Weare Police Department became victim of a cyberattack
Weare Police Department of New Hampshire has disclosed that they became victim of a cyberattack in March 2017. This incident came to light when a
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/25
Sock company fined for delayed notification about data breach
Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, announced that Sock-maker Bombas LLC -- whose advertisements call their products as "the most
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/25
Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County still facing problems due to the cyber attack
Ongoing problems still persist with computer network of Pennsylvania's Luzerne County after the cyberattack impacted Luzerne County's correctional
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/24
Email accounts of several hundred Ethiopian INSA agents hacked
A group of hackers managed to easily hack email accounts of several hundred Ethiopian INSA (Information Network Security Agency) agents. This
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/24
City of Edcouch suffered from a data breach
City of Edcouch in Hidalgo County of Texas, United States, has suffered from a data breach when access to Edcouch city's network was gained by a
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/24
Around 75% of mobile applications do not possess secured data storage
Positive Technologies has just published its yearly security report on mobile applications indicating that cyber-criminals most often don't require
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/24
UK banks warned of cyber attacks corrupting their crucial data
An official from BoE (Bank of England) has expressed that banks will have a tough time safeguarding themselves from cyber attacks believed to be
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/24
More than 422,000 patients of BioReference possibly impacted by the AMCA Breach
The total victims in the AMCA (American Medical Collections Agency) data breach now has crossed 20 Million, as another healthcare organizations
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/24
Communities Connected for Kids suffered from Data Breach for 7 Months
Communities Connected for Kids (CCK) based in Port St. Lucie of Florida discovered that an unauthorized individual has gained access to the
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/22
UK banks warned of cyber attacks corrupting their crucial data
An official from BoE (Bank of England) has expressed that banks will have a tough time safeguarding themselves from cyber attacks believed to be
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/22
More than 422,000 patients of BioReference possibly impacted by the AMCA Breach
The total victims in the AMCA (American Medical Collections Agency) data breach now has crossed 20 Million, as another healthcare organizations
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/22
Communities Connected for Kids suffered from Data Breach for 7 Months
Communities Connected for Kids (CCK) based in Port St. Lucie of Florida discovered that an unauthorized individual has gained access to the
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/21
Phishing scams now spread abusing Google Calendar
Global cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab in its latest press release has said that scammers in their most recent method of offense are abusing
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/21
Customers of Lewes Public Works warned about possible data breach of customer information system
In a letter that was sent to its customers on May 29, 2019, the Lewes Board of Public Works (BPW) revealed that Department of Homeland Security has
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/20
Patients of Health Quest notified about July 2018 Phishing Breach
Health Quest, the health system based in Connecticut, fall prey to a phishing attack resulting in exposure of the PHI (Protected Health Information)
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/20
Around 7.7 Million LabCorp Patients impacted by the AMCA Breach
LabCorp, one more national network of the blood testing centers, has announced on June 4 of the current year (i.e. 2019) that around 7.7 million
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/20
ACU latest university as victim of online phishing
Australian Catholic University recently confirmed a data hack which targeted its servers following certain phishing attack. The university stated it
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/19
Security breach of Broome County possibly compromises personal information
According to Broome County, an unauthorized individual might have access to personal information of the county employees along with individuals
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/19
MPCRPDC zonal office Cashier’s ID and password hacked
The ID as well as the password of cashier posted in the MPCRPDC (Madhya Pradesh Central Region Power Distribution Company) zonal office at Sultania
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/18
Some Databases of Flipboard Hacked and Account Information of the Users got exposed
Flipboard, the famous news aggregator platform, has revealed that their databases having account information of some users was hacked. Data that was
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/18
Phishing attack on People Inc. affected around 1,000 persons
People Inc. came to know about the data security incident involving PHI (Protected Health Information) of some current as well as former clients.
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/18
Aircraft parts manufacturer of Belgium faces ransomware, production halted worldwide
ASCO Industries, which structures aviation and airplane parts, recently shutdown its plants following becoming victim of a ransomware assault.
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/17
WhatsApp warns of legally acting upon spammers
WhatsApp is set to legally act upon companies and individuals spamming messages thereby violating the terms and conditions related to its service,
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/17
A massive 3.4bn-or-more fraudulent e-mail dispatched globally per day
The "Spring 2019 Email Fraud Landscape" of Valimail says that phishing isn't just a technical assault but also a method that uses social
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/17
A cyber-attack on U.S. CBP compromises travelers’ photographs
On June 10, officials from United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated that a malware induced cyber-attack compromised travelers'
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/15
Schoolboy from Adelaide hacked Apple
The schoolboy from Adelaide, Australia, who hacked into the secure computer system of Apple when his age was just 13 yrs. has been advised to use
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/15
Patients notified about Data Breaches at Columbus Community Hospital
Columbus Community Hospital of Columbus city, Wisconsin, started notifying patients on May 24, 2019, that phishing attack on their vendor might have
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/15
Canva hacked and personal information got compromised
Canva - the Australian tech unicorn - was hacked, with data of around 139 million users got stolen. Canva is one of the most noticeable technology
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/14
Hackers targeted leading Australian university, accessed student and staff data from 19-yrs past
The top research university in Australia known as Australian National University recently suffered a large-scale cyber assault by which an advanced
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/14
Third-party mailbox used by the Computacenter got hacked
The third-party mailbox that was used by the employees and contractors of Computacenter to deposit the data for the security clearance applications
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/14
Hackers breach US’s most extensively used vehicle LPR Company - Perceptics
Perceptics, one of US's most extensively used vehicle LPR (License Plate Reader) company, is reportedly investigating about a data breach when
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/11
Laredo City’s Office become victim of a ransomware attack
On Wednesday, May 22 2019, the Laredo City fall prey to a ransomware attack, where the ransomware virus encrypted the document management system
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/11
Gift Card Website of Greene King compromised by the hackers
Greene King, Major pub chain of UK, had their gift card website (i.e. https://www.gkgiftcards.co.uk) compromised by the hackers. The company
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/10
Shubert Organization notified customers about data breach
The Shubert Organization, which has one of largest operations in the theatre both on as well as beyond Broadway, suffered from a data breach. The
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/10
Medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics’ third-party billing company hacked
Quest Diagnostics a big name in medical testing recently declared that its billing company working as a 3rd-party was victim of a data hack which
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/10
Bloodworks Northwest notifies the patients about PHI Exposure
On Mar. 13, 2019, Bloodworks Northwest discovered a list having the patients' names, medical diagnoses, and dates of birth were missing from one
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/7
International testing lab Eurofins Scientific encounters ransomware attack
Eurofins Scientific, a global laboratories group with its main office in Brussels, declared that its IT department, which monitors lab security,
SPAMfighter News 2019/6/7
Cyber-attack on the library database of Sunderland City Council
The library database users of Sunderland City Council are warned by Council chiefs to remain vigilant, after a few customers' details have been
SPAMfighter News 2019/6/6
CRM Data Breach of Redtail might have exposed some client information
A data breach might have exposed the personal client information of some financial advisors which are stored on the Client Relationship Management
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/6
Chinese hackers infected over 50,000 servers globally with malware
Security researchers from Guardicore a security specialist company based in Tel Aviv have reportedly detected one malicious campaign which
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/5
Westpac’s PayID attacked, private details of 100K Australian bank customers leaked
Nearly 100,000 bank account-holders in Australia have experienced exposure of their private details during one cyber-attack against Westpac's PayID
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/5
Hackers breached the Q&A Site of Stack Overflow thus exposing Some User Data
Stack Overflow is one of largest site of question and answer for the programmers. It has confirmed that some user data has been accessed as a result
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/4
TA505 cyber gang hits yet again with fresh malicious program
The Managed Targeted Detection and Mitigation service of Cyberint identifies threats plaguing organizational and digital platforms by combining
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/4
Sudbury MPP tightens his social media security after the phishing scam on the Facebook
Somebody pretending as the Sudbury MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament) - Jamie West, messages his friends. An MPP is an elected Legislative
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/4
Another Phishing Attack-Related Breach reported by CTCA
CTCA (Cancer Treatment Centers of America) has discovered that an employee email account of their Southeastern Regional Medical Center was
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/3
Websites of Cartoon Network hacked to show the illicit content like the videos of the Arabic memes
Websites of Cartoon Network in a minimum of 16 countries/regions were hacked during weekend to play the videos of the Arabic memes as well as of a
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/3
Over 2.3bn data files of consumers and businesses leaked online
More than 2.3bn files containing critical information like medical data, credit card particulars, payroll information as well as patents for
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/1
Verity Health System’s St. Vincent Medical Center reported Phishing Attack
Verity Health System's St. Vincent Medical Center is based in California. The Medical Center has discovered that one web email account got
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/1
Phony uploads observed onto AMO stores of well-known program extensions
A gHacks.net report dated May 29 highlights an increasing number of phony uploads carried out onto AMO store associated with well known software
...SPAMfighter News 2019/6/1
Computer virus prompts to shut down the court websites and programs
Websites as well as computer programs that are linked to the court system of Philadelphia were shut down since the afternoon of May 21, 2019,
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