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The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia were a series of cyberattacks that began on 27 April 2007 and targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers, and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually.
Data breaches continue in 2023 as T-Mobile announced a data breach in January impacting 37 million accounts. The U.S. Marshals Service, meantime, reported a "major" security breach in February.
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
The most high-profile of those attacks cited in Kroll’s report, one that pushed the financial sector back into the top spot, was the CL0P ransomware attack on the data transfering platform ...
The threat of data breach or revealing information obtained in a data breach can be used for extortion. [16] Consumers may suffer various forms of tangible or intangible harm from the theft of their personal data, or not notice any harm. [91] A significant portion of those affected by a data breach become victims of identity theft. [82]
According to cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the MOVEit vulnerability began being used on May 27, 2023. [1]On May 31 Progress Software released a patch for the vulnerability and stated the vulnerability “could lead to escalated privileges and potential unauthorized access to the environment”.
The CFPB first became aware of abuse on 14 February 2023. [1] [4] They informed U.S. lawmakers of the incident on March 21, but it was not made public until April 24. [3] [4] [6] Shortly following the data breach, Senator Cruz and Rep Donalds authored a bill seeking to eliminate the CFPB. [7]