Alina Bizga

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US-based Office Superstore, Staples, has recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the order details of nearly 2,500 customers. “We recently learned of unauthorized access to a limited number of non-sensitive customer order data on Staples.com, which may have included information about one of your orders,” the customer notification email ... Read More

Düsseldorf University Hospital (UKD) has suffered a massive network failure that forced the healthcare facility to deregister from emergency care and postpone outpatient treatments, hospital officials disclosed last Thursday. “There is currently an extensive IT failure at the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD),” the announcement reads. “This means, among other things, ... Read More

The personal information of approximately 46,000 US veterans was compromised after unauthorized individuals gained access to a Financial Service Center application, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disclosed on Monday. According to a press release, the unauthorized users who gained access to the application managed to change financial information ... Read More

The aftermath of Blackbaud’s data breach continues to extend, with Inova Health System stepping forward as the latest victim of the ransomware incident announced by the US-based cloud computing provider in May 2020. “Inova Health System (“Inova”), a non-profit health organization, recently learned that Blackbaud, a third-party service vendor used ... Read More

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is the latest US school division to be hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted some of its systems. “We currently believe we may have been victimized by cyber criminals who have been connected to dozens of ransomware attacks in other school systems and corporations ... Read More

Major airlines and hotel chains have failed to secure their online platforms even after previous data breaches and cyberattacks exposed information of millions of customers’ and drew fines from privacy regulators. That’s the conclusion of an investigation by Which?, which found hundreds of data security vulnerabilities on popular travel companies ... Read More

K-Electric, Pakistan’s largest power supplier, has been hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted multiple online services, including customer billing. The attack on the morning of September 7 left customers unable to access various services for their online accounts. Luckily, power delivery services were not affected. Netwalker ransomware operators have ... Read More

The data breach phenomenon has been plaguing the US healthcare sector for more than a decade, with a 2,733% increase between 2009 and 2019, according to a PrivacyAffairs study. Through analysis of reported healthcare data breaches over the past decade, researchers have revealed some alarming statistics: • 3,054 data breaches ... Read More

The city of Hartford, Connecticut, was forced to delay the first day of school on Tuesday after a ransomware attack took down critical network systems, including the system that communicates transportation routes to the school bus operator. “There will be no in-person or online learning on Tuesday, September 8,” Hartford ... Read More

The launch of the Miami-Dade school year was abruptly interrupted last week by a series of DDoS attacks targeting school IT infrastructures and the K12 e-learning platform that allows teachers and students to participate in online classes. The first three days of distance learning were made impossible for a large ... Read More