Latest News: Data Breaches

Capita, an outsourcing firm based in London, has released an update confirming that hackers stole data from its systems in a cyber incident that occurred in March. Capita provides critical services to various UK government departments, including the NHS, the military, and the Department for Work

NationsBenefits, a Florida-based healthcare giant, has submitted a data breach notification to the New Hampshire attorney general, revealing that over 7,100 customers within the state had their data compromised. This was due to a ransomware attack on the widely used Fortra GoAnywhere file transfer

Data storage giant Western Digital has been hacked by cybercriminals who claim to have stolen around 10 terabytes of data, including customer information. The hackers are demanding a ransom of a minimum of eight figures from Western Digital in exchange for not publishing the stolen data. On

Cybersecurity Researcher Jeremiah Fowler has recently reported to vpnMentor about the existence of a non-password protected database containing over 1.2 million records. Upon further research, I identified these records to be related to individuals who were employed or applied to work in law

Last month, Latitude Group Holdings, an Australian consumer finance company, faced a massive cyberattack that resulted in criminals obtaining 14 million customer records, which included driver's licenses, passports, and financial statements. The cybercriminals have since demanded ransom, but the

The database also contained images of users, credit cards, passports and other forms of identification. Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, has recently reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained over 600,000 records. Upon further investigation it became

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is the latest of many companies to disclose that they were affected by a vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere file-sharing solution. This resulted in a breach in early February that exposed the personal information of an unknown number of its employees. In a

The effects of the mass ransomware attack carried out via Fortra’s GoAnywhere file transfer tool continue to escalate. This time, the victim was a virtual mental healthcare startup aimed at children called Brightline. The data of more than 63,000 patients is assumed to have been stolen. The

A serious ChatGPT bug resulted in the exposure of user chat histories and the personal data of ChatGPT Plus subscribers on March 20th. The leaked data included identifiable user data and even partial payment information. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman initially confirmed that the glitch briefly caused

Italian luxury car manufacturer Ferrari has confirmed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that exposed its customers' personal information. The carmaker stated that a threat actor accessed a limited number of systems in its IT environment. Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna sent a letter to