A cyberattack on Metropolis Group, a company that owns various media brands, has compromised the personal data of some current and former employees. The attackers accessed servers containing sensitive information, including passport details, bank acco...
In November, Great Plains Health experienced a cyberattack that impacted multiple systems within the organization. The attack disrupted access to archived information, which is not frequently used. Critical patient systems were restored within two we...
In November 2024, threat actors "EnergyWeaponUser" and "IntelBroker" claimed to have exfiltrated an internal Ford Motor Company database containing 44,000 customer records. The data, which included names, physical addresses, and purchase details, was ...
The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) has issued a statement denying claims made by the Money Message hacking group of a cyber breach. Money Message, a known ransomware operator, had claimed on social media to have exfiltrated 500 GB of data from the ETA. ...
In October 2024, Maxar Space Systems, a prominent satellite manufacturer headquartered in Colorado, experienced a data breach. The breach was discovered on October 11th, a week after a hacker using a Hong Kong-based IP address gained access to a syste...
On November 13, 2024, Germany's national statistics agency, Destatis, detected a potential data breach within their IDEV data-sharing system. The breach was discovered after a report surfaced that 3.8 gigabytes of data were stolen from the IDEV platf...
A cyber-espionage operation linked to Chinese intelligence targeted multiple U.S. and international telecommunications companies, including T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies. The hackers, allegedly associated with a Chinese intelligence ...
RBN and Associates, Inc., also known as RBN Insurance Services, recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the sensitive information of 10,205 individuals. The breach originated on March 5, 2024, when an unauthorized party gained access to an emplo...
American Associated Pharmacies (AAP), a network of over 2,000 independent pharmacies across the US, has been targeted by the Embargo ransomware group. The cybercriminals behind Embargo claim to have stolen 1.469 terabytes of data from AAP before encry...
In November 2024, a former medical worker, Trent J. Russell, was sentenced to two years in prison for illegally accessing and leaking Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's medical records in 2019. Russell, an active member of the online message board 4chan, a...
Cyber Security Case Studies has worked with a number of groups to develop these risk effect categories which represent a plain-english description of the impacts seen in public cyber events alongside their definition: