There were a total of 94 reported cyber security incidents in October, resulting in 51,248,331 compromised records.
Most of these documents originated from a hacking attack on the Argentine government’s ID database, which is believed to have exposed the personal information of every citizen of the country.
Nonetheless, there are a plethora of other cases to investigate, such as the recent wave of ransomware assaults targeting the education sector.
Cyber attacks
- Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for ’embarrassing’ breach (unknown)
- DDoS attack hits UK internet phone providers (unknown)
- Sunderland University IT systems down in possible cyber attack (unknown)
- Galway university computer systems taken offline after cyber attack (unknown)
- Epilepsy Foundation of Texas notifies individuals following phishing attack (unknown)
- Anonymous releases data on Texas GOP in latest Epik hack dump (unknown)
- Lodi schools lose internet access due to ‘cyber security’ issue (unknown)
- Next Level Apparel releases notice of security incident (unknown)
- Plumsted Township reveals security incident (unknown)
- Oregon Eye Specialists, PC notifies patients after email breach (unknown)
- Data hack hits alumni of Harvard-Westlake Private School (150)
- TX-based Lion Street Financial says employee email accounts were hacked (27)
- Woman allegedly hacked flight school, cleared planes to fly (unknown)
- Verizon-owned Visible network suffers suspected security incident (unknown)
- Olympus US systems hit by cyber attack over the weekend (unknown)
- Data of Acer India customers hacked (10,000)
- Cyber attack shuts down Ecuador’s largest bank, Banco Pichincha (unknown)
- 3D printing site Thingiverse suffers major user data breach (228,000)
- Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri suffers security incident (349,246)
- Adult students’ SSNs from more than 60 years ago caught up in Ohio breach (unknown)
- Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina’s entire population (45 million)
- Hackers leak police takedown video, medical records in Durham Region breach (unknown)
- Indian Interstate cyber hackers’ gang busted (unknown)
- Email breach at North American Dental Group impacts numerous practice (170,000)
- McAllen Surgical Specialty Center notifies patients and employees after security incident (unknown)
- Tesco website and app back online after attempted cyber attack (unknown)
- Centinela Valley Union High School District systems hit by malware (unknown)
- Pakistani agents hack Sambalpur University website (unknown)
- Fullerton Health vendor’s server hacked; personal details of customers sold online (unknown)
- Current and former CU Boulder students’ personal information hacked (30,000)
- Cyber attack closes Iran’s petrol stations (unknown)
- Breach at Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital affects patients and employees (unknown)
- Coughlin & Cerhart law firm in New York experienced a security breach (unknown)
- Samaritan Daytop Village discloses breach (unknown)
- Department store Neiman Marcus notifies customers of data breach (4.6 million)
- Sea Mar Community Health Centers discloses breach that began last year (unknown)
- The City of Titusville provides notice of data security incident (unknown)
- Hackers leak data from LGBTQ dating app Atraf, bus firm and booking company (unknown)
Ransomware
- Weir Group suffers ‘sophisticated’ ransomware attack (unknown)
- Pottawatomie Co. pays hackers to restore computer systems after cyber attack (unknown)
- Illinois-based OSF Healthcare discloses ransomware incident (53,907)
- Johnson Memorial Health investigates ransomware attack (unknown)
- JDC Healthcare discloses ransomware incident (unknown)
- Ransomware actor tries to pressure Allen ISD by emailing parents (unknown)
- Consolidated High School District 230 in Illinois hit by ransomware (unknown)
- Haverhill Public Schools in Massachusetts discloses ransomware attack (unknown)
- Cox Media Group confirms ransomware attack that took down broadcasts (800)
- ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics notifies patients after ransomware incident (350,000)
- Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera hit by ransomware (unknown)
- Sinclair TV network crippled by potential ransomware attack (unknown)
- Manhasset Union Free School District suffers ransomware attack (unknown)
- Healthcare practice Anthem suffers ransomware attack (unknown)
- Indiana orthopaedics practice becomes a victim of a ransomware attack (unknown)
- Corry School District says ransomware attack may have exposed data on staff, students (unknown)
- Wiggin and Dana law firm discloses ransomware attack (unknown)
- Italian Society of Authors and Publishers hit by ransomware (unknown)
- Central Restaurants Group in Thailand hit by Desorden ransomware (2,000)
- Woodlake Unified District student and personnel data dumped after ransomware incident (unknown)
- National Rifle Association hit by ransomware attack (unknown)
- Wisconsin-based Janesville schools hit with ransomware attack locking digital systems (unknown)
- Schreiber Foods hit by ransomware; milk processing plants closed (unknown)
- Cyber attack paralyzes Eberspaecher (unknown)
- Washington County school district looks into possible ransomware attack (unknown)
- Seneca Family of Agencies discloses breach personal and medical data (unknown)
- Blue Shield of California insurance broker victim of ransomware attack (2,858)
- Toronto Transit Commission says investigation underway amid ransomware attack (unknown)
- Professional Healthcare Management discloses ransomware incident (unknown)
Data breaches
- MoD web gaffe exposes special forces weapon data (unknown)
- Labour Relations Agency apologises for data breach (213)
- Tesco worker compensated after supermarket lost 15 years of her medical records (unknown)
- Telegraph newspaper exposes 10TB of subscriber data and server logs (1,200)
- Twitch confirms hack, reports say 125gb of data lost in privacy breach (unknown)
- Jersey blames staff shortages blamed for lost medical records (unknown)
- The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services investigating data leak (unknown)
- Queensland border-pass applicants caught in police privacy breach (350)
- Missouri Teachers’ Social Security numbers at risk on state agency’s website (unknown)
- Williamsville School employees’ private health data inadvertently leaked by Independent Health (500)
- Potential data leak causes confusion for Belvidere School District parents (unknown)
- Schools Marketing Company dismisses report of data breach (unknown)
- Ohio State University email gaffe creates a FERPA breach (399)
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital sends email identifying unvaccinated employees (370)
- Canadian government data breach exposes Afghans to more danger (200)
- German students’ data leaked by a flawed API (400,000)
Financial information
Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents
- ‘Resentful’ Wellingborough IT worker carried out cyber attacks at former employers (unknown)
- University of Alabama says a laptop was stolen from an employee (297)
- TX-based Premier Patient Health Care suffers insider-wrongdoing incident (37,636)
- NJ University Hospital recently learned of long-running insider-wrongdoing breach (9,329)
- UNC Hospitals notifies patients that former employee used patient information for personal gain (719)
- Chico State employee charged with hacking, leaking vaccine exemption requests (130)
- Merced County School District vendor reports a burglary that compromised protected health information (unknown)
