We only received 84 reports of cyber assaults or data breaches in August, accounting for 60,865,828 compromised records, making it another month with a low number of reported attacks or breaches.
And if it weren’t for the attack on T-Mobile, there would have been even less. Earlier this month, the mobile network reported a cyberattack that it said affected 7.8 million consumers and 40 million records. However, it increased that number to 53 million a week later.
This incident, along with our comprehensive list of cyber assaults and data breaches affecting UK organizations (noted in bold), may be found below.
Cyber attacks
- Travel and medical insurance provider guard.me suffers security incident (unknown)
- Paxton Media Group says cyber attacker infiltrated its databases (unknown)
- North Dakota’s Sanford Health target of attempted cyber attack (unknown)
- Ibex provides notice of malware attack (unknown)
- Vision for Hope notification of data security incident (unknown)
- Chanel Korea issues apology over data theft (unknown)
- OT Group, the holding company of OrangeTee & Tie and OrangeTee Advisory, has suffered a data security breach (unknown)
- Cyber attack hits vaccine records for thousands of Durham Region children (200)
- T-Mobile data breach exposes millions of customers’ personal data (53 million)
- The Research Foundation for the State University of New York discloses data breach (46,734)
- Destination Maternity notifying employees of hacking incident (93,776)
- Attack on HVAC vendor gave threat actor access to Boston Children’s Hospital (unknown)
- Gelre hospital has been attacked by cyber criminals for three weeks (unknown)
- The Indiana Department of Health confirms leak of COVID-19 data (750,000)
- Secret terrorist watchlist with exposed online (1.9 million)
- Indra hacking group blamed for attack on Iranian railway system (unknown)
- Willdan Group, Inc. provides notice of data privacy incident (unknown)
- Singapore real estate firm breached by ALTDOS (unknown)
- US State Department recently hit by a cyber attack (unknown)
- Phishing attack exposes medical information for patients at Revere Health (12,000)
- Kingman, Arizona residents affected by city’s cyber attack (200)
- Man impersonated Apple customer support to steal iCloud photos in plot to find images of nude women (620,000)
- Hackers release data trove from Belarus in bid to overthrow Lukashenko regime (unknown)
- Educational institution ROC Mondriaan in The Hague victim of major cyber attack (unknown)
- Boston Public Library discloses cyber attack, system-wide technical outage (unknown)
- CareATC notifies patients, employees, and dependents after discovering employee email accounts compromised (unknown)
- DuPage Medical Group notifying patients affected by cyber attack (600,000)
Ransomware
- Isle of Wight schools hit by ransomware (unknown)
- Lazio region suspends vaccination reservations after ransomware attack (unknown)
- Coghlin Electrical Co. hit with ransomware attack (unknown)
- Ransomware attack prompts Eskenazi Health to shut down systems and divert patients (unknown)
- Ransomware shuts down online services in Joplin, Missouri (unknown)
- Judson ISD says it paid hackers to protect sensitive information (unknown)
- Taiwanese computer hardware vendor GIGABYTE has suffered a ransomware attack (unknown)
- IT health services firm Greenway Health launches investigation into ransomware incident (unknown)
- Crytek confirms Egregor ransomware attack, customer data theft (unknown)
- Missouri’s Affton School District confirms ransomware attack (unknown)
- Montana’s Gering Public Schools suffers ransomware attack (unknown)
- Ransomware hackers leak data of consultancy giant Accenture (unknown)
- Criminal hackers hit two public wastewater plants in Maine (unknown)
- Ohio’s Memorial Health System experiences ransomware attack (200,000)
- Brazil’s National Treasury hit by ransomware (unknown)
- Rockwood School District provides notice of ransomware incident (77,294)
- Search and Rescue Base at Aoraki/Mount Cook hit by ransomware (unknown)
- Renner Stores goes down after ransomware infection (unknown)
- Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore hit by ransomware attack (unknown)
- Ransomware attack on eye clinic in Singapore (73,500)
- Sault Ste. Marie Police Service victim of ransomware attack (unknown)
- Bangkok Air confirms passenger PII leak after ransomware attack (unknown)
- Swiss town of Rolle suffers ransomware attack (unknown)
- Cyber attack targeted Israel’s Bar Ilan University (unknown)
Data breaches
- Washington Hospital hires investigator after electrical fires down internet, phones, medical records database (unknown)
- University of Kentucky data breach exposes email addresses of students and teachers (355,000)
- Singaporean telco StarHub says customer data has been breached (57,191)
- New York City public school students exposed in data leak (3,100)
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools email gaffe exposes medical info on students (3,000)
- Medical records found in a Letterkenny pub (unknown)
- Man arrested after downloading London property firm’s meeting minutes from Google search (unknown)
- New Zealand residents’ private email addresses exposed after mistake by a Work and Income caseworker (103)
- American marketing firm Reindeer breaches data in misconfiguration error (3 million)
- Brooklyn Tech students uncovered a NYC schools data breach (unknown)
- North Carolina state employees notified of unintended exposure of file on intranet (84,860)
- Data breach at US waste management firm exposes employees’ healthcare details (unknown)
- Terabytes of Dallas Police Department data are missing and may be unrecoverable after being deleted during a data migration process (unknown)
- Ford bug exposed customer and employee records from internal systems (unknown)
- JP Morgan Chase Bank admits leaking sensitive data of its customers (unknown)
- Chico State University exposed the personal information of students who requested COVID-19 vaccination religious exemptions (130)
- Fresno Unified School District notifying people after discovering backup device with names and SSNs was missing (unknown)
- Metro Infectious Disease Consultants notifies those affected by privacy incident (171,740)
- Less than two months after its launch and inaugural hack, GETTR is leaking data (unknown)
- Denton County data breach related to Microsoft Power Apps (unknown)
- Los Angeles-based COVID-19 testing supplier Total Testing Solutions exposes medical data (unknown)
Financial information
Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents
- Former police officer convicted of selling confidential information on the dark web (unknown)
- Long Island Jewish Forest Hills notifies patients affected by former employee’s unauthorized access to sensitive medical data (unknown)
- Ex-West Penn Hospital technician jailed for secretly recording undressed patients (unknown)
- Florida woman convicted of damaging her former employer’s computers after she was fired (17,000)
- South Florida Community Care Plan notifies members after discovering unauthorised disclosure (unknown)
- Data leak at Radboudumc hospital was caused by former employee (unknown)
- Ex-employee, staff booked for data theft from Ghaziabad firm (unknown)
