It’s been a bad month for Australia and Canada: dumped out of the Women’s World Cup and responsible for 13 data breaches.
Meanwhile, another Irish hospital has left medical records on a city street for the public to find and local US governments continue to be plagued by ransomware.
In total, there were at least 62 data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2019. You can read the full list below, and please let us know if there are any stories we’ve missed.
Global
- Security breach costs Ripple cryptocurrency holders 23 million XRP
- Social planning platform Evite admits to data breach that was first reported in April
- Details on cyber attack against Symantec revealed: A ‘minor incident’?
- State-sponsored hackers steal data from more than a dozen telecoms orgs
- Jewish dating app JCrush kept user’s personal data and private message records in unprotected database
- Critical flaw in Evernote add-on exposed user’s sensitive data
- Theta360 exposes user-uploaded photos
- File sharing site WeTransfer was accidentally sending data to the wrong users
Ireland
- List of medical records from a Donegal hospital found in a bin
- Dublin Port Company investigating the source of a data leak
Rest of Europe
- The EU’s embassy in Moscow was hacked but the EU kept it a secret
- Russia’s top three banks breach customer’s personal data
- HIV patients’ data breached in NHS Highland email gaffe
- Leicester City FC fans’ financial details stolen in cyber attack
The US
- Arizona-based Kingman Regional Medical Center says cyber attack could be responsible for its website shutting down
- US Customs says border-crossers have had their photos stolen
- Account of schoolboard member at Hopkins Co., KY, school breached
- Philadelphia’s court system thrown into chaos by computer virus
- EatStreet food ordering service discloses security breach
- Hackers stole $1.75 million from church
- Westwood, NJ, provides notice of 2018 malware attack
- Key Biscayne becoming the latest Florida city to be hit by cyber attack
- Pittsburgh-based Ellwood City Medical Center hit by ransomware
- Edcouch, TX, government hit by ransomware attack
- Ohio urologist pays hackers $75,000 after ransomware attack
- Massachusetts-based software company discloses ransomware incident
- Riviera Beach? More like Riviera Breach, as Florida city pays hackers $600k after ransomware attack
- Another Miami breach: Lake City pays $460,000 ransom demand
- Broome Co., NY, government systems accessed by unauthorised party
- Database misconfiguration at the University of Chicago exposes personal data
- Aetna is only just now notifying Virginia employees of data breach it’s known about since December 2018
- Baltimore Co. Schools exposes sensitive data about students and staff members
- The Tech Data Corporation exposed 264GB of client servers, invoices, passwords
- Graceland University discloses data breach
- Oregon State University also discloses data breach
- Missouri Southern State University third college to disclose data breach over two-day span
- Employee at Temple University accidentally uploads student information onto Internet
- Chicago-based healthcare centre left patient data in now-closed facility
- Ad agency exposed patients’ medical injury claim records
- Two Maryland-based medical practices notify patients after accidental data disclosure
- IT error at Creighton University exposes patient medical records
- Virginia-based insurer Dominion National investigating data breach dating back to 2010
- Indiana-based healthcare facility says an employee was gaining unauthorised access to patient data
- Woodbury’s Merrill Arts Center hit with data theft
- PainMD says it can’t access patient records because those with keys to the storage facility no longer work at the company
Rest of North America
- Nova Scotia Health Authority caught in phishing attack
- Southest Kootenat school district reveals it was hit by Emotet in January
- Canadian town notifies residents of privacy breach
- Canadian weight loss centre accidentally posts clients’ personal data online
- Employee at dental clinic exposes customers’ data ‘to prove they were at work’
- Alberta Health Services says an unauthorised person accessed patient data
- Privacy breach at Canadian hospital as employee accesses an acquaintance’s medical records
- Former employee at Canadian credit union stole customer data
Asia–Pacific
- Corporate espionage suspected as confidential data of New York company stolen in Mumbai
- Australian Catholic University hit by phishing attack
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University leaks students’ email metadata
- Misconfigured database belonging to Indian job portal causes massive data breach
- Specsavers says Queensland customers’ private medical information has gone missing
- Taiwan’s civil service system reports data breach
- Queensland Health launches investigation after medical files found on roadside
- Attack on Westpac’s PayID system exposes Australians’ personal data
- Australian National University detects data breach dating back 19 years
- Parents of Nagle Catholic School warned about financial data breach
- Leaked video shows how patient data in Hong Kong hospitals can be publicly accessed
