Topic: Data Breach

Following the unceremonious cyberattack on the European Medicines Agency, cybercriminals have leaked Covid-19 vaccination data from Pfizer and BioNTech. The EMA is a decentralized agency related to the European Union. They are responsible for both reviewing and approving vaccines before distribution. They are also the sole force in monitoring and evaluating these medicines. On the … Read more

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, a multinational corporation mostly known for motorcycle, engine, and aerospace/defense manufacturing, was hit with a data breach. The breach shows that multiple overseas offices were subject to “unauthorized access”. Kawasaki confirms in a news release entitled “Concerning Unauthorized Access to Kawasaki Group” that the threat is suspected to be from outside the … Read more

The Baltimore County Public School system has announced a cancelling of classes this morning. This was after an attack shut down school systems. This morning, at 9:11 AM, spokesman Mychael Dickerson confirmed on Twitter that Baltimore Country Public Schools was confirmed as the victim of a ransomware related cyber attack. “This caused systemic interruption to … Read more

On Saturday, October 17th, the online team of the free medieval fantasy MMORPG, Albion, revealed a data breach. According to the blog post on Albion’s forum, a bad actor gained access to parts of the user database. These forum user profiles included email addresses. In addition to the emails, the malicious actor also found encrypted passwords. “These … Read more

Canadian e-commerce company Shopify has announced a data breach affecting less than 200 of their customers. In a blog post entitled “Incident Update,” Shopify reveals that the breach was caused by two rouge members of their support team. Apparently, they were conducting a scheme to rip off customers by grabbing their transaction records. Shopify has … Read more

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a data breach jeopardizing the personal information of around 46,000 Veterans. In a statement released on Monday, the VA explains that the Financial Services Center (FSC) found an online application for Veteran’s medical treatment to be the entry point for hackers. According to the statement, “The FSC took … Read more

The Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies, otherwise known as the SANS Institute, suffered a data breach resulting the loss of 28,000 items of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The data breach was a direct result a single employee who fell victim to a phishing attack. The Maryland-based SANS Institute has a reputation for their highly regarded … Read more

As a result of a 2019 breach, Capital One is facing a penalty payment of $80 million. The fine came from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The penalty is over failed security measures involving moving key IT systems to the public cloud in a timely manner. In a scathing report, the OCC … Read more

Semiconductor chip manufacturer Intel is investigating a data breach, revealing 20 gigabytes of their internal documents leaked online. The data came to Twitter via Till Kottmann, a Swedish Android developer with a self proclaimed history of data leaks. Yesterday at noon, Kottmann tweeted, “Intel exconfidential Lake Platform Release 😉 This is the first 20gb release … Read more

The Virginia Commonwealth University has suffered a massive international data breach in which alumni information was stolen. The breach has affected 176,567 current and former VCU students, staff, and affiliates. Blackbaud, an online cloud platform that VCU uses for development and alumni related activities, was the company that found the breach. According to a letter … Read more