The cyber security news has been dominated by just one story all month of september: Equifax, which suffered one of the largest reported corporate data breaches in history.
has gone through the trouble to list the September 2017 cyber breaches, by his count, there have been 174,429,805 known leaked records this month yet he might have missed some, do let him know
List of data breaches and cyber attacks in September – 174 million records leaked
Cyber attack & ransomware
Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center notifies 128,000 patients of ransomware incident
UISD investigating computer hacking
Sheriffs warn of hackers after upstate attack
Meridian Secondary School’s art competition site hacked
MongoDB ransacking starts again: Hackers ransom 26,000 unsecured instances
Mystery surrounds malware attack that forced German state parliament offline
Princess ransomware makes a visit to the wrong website a royal mistake
CCleaner, distributed by anti-virus firm Avast, contained malicious backdoor
Data breach
Credit reporting firm Equifax says data breach could potentially affect 143 million US consumers
Huge potential privacy breach exposes Nunavut’s lax file management
The Irish National Teacher’s Organisation suffers breach affecting up to 30,000 teachers
Personal data and lab results of more than 6,000 people were exposed online for months
Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails
Woman Stole Elderly Identities To Fund ‘Brazilian Butt Lift’; Cops Say
Telstra glitch sends personal SMS messages to random recipients after fire at exchange
SMART Physical Therapy hacked by TheDarkOverlord
Passwords to Over a Half Million Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online
Medical Mutual Provides Notice of Data Incident
Data breach made public, Ridgeview says it exposed some email addresses
PeaceHealth employee accessed patient info unnecessarily
AU Medical Center patients data possibly compromised by attack on faculty email accounts
Morehead Memorial Hospital: Data breach may have leaked patient and employee information
Vevo Hackers Leak — Then Delete — Huge Trove of Internal Videos, Documents
Somerville House donors warned of data breach
Hacker steals thousands of student records from WA TAFE
Man stole records from doctors’ storage unit
Notice of Canoe.ca data breach affecting 1 million site users
AIB loses 550 bank customers’ confidential information
Translate.com Exposes Highly Sensitive Information in Massive Privacy Breach
Port Phillip Council privacy breach exposes 700 email addresses
AXA data breach affects 5,400 Singapore customers
Community Memorial Health System in Ventura suffers data security breach
Taringa hacked: 28 million users’ credentials compromised
Customer data stolen after attack on jobs platform cpjobs.com
Thousands of sensitive mercenary resumes exposed after security lapse
BroadSoft Inc. left millions of partners’ customer data records exposed
Financial information
Breach at Sonic Drive-In May Have Impacted Millions of Credit, Debit Cards
Leak puts Toowoomba residents at risk of identity fraud
Dutch Bitcoin Broker Litebit Suffers Second Data Breach in Six Weeks
Financial records, kids names, charity money stolen
MacEwan University defrauded of nearly $12M in phishing scam
Other
7% of All Amazon S3 Servers Are Exposed, Explaining Recent Surge of Data Leaks
Adobe’s security team reveals its private PGP key
Red Alert 2.0: New Android banking trojan can block and log incoming calls from bank
Fighting back against cyber crime
UP STF busts gang which hacked secure source code to crack Aadhaar, issued fake biometric cards
Roman Seleznev pleads guilty to federal charges in Georgia and Nevada
Former Columbia Sportswear Company employee pleads guilty to hacking network
Man involved with “Crackas With Attitude” sentenced to 5 years
Police Seize Domain of Online Store That Stole User’s Card Data
Source: www.itgovernance.co.uk