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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in March
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March has been an interesting month. There haven’t been any major data breaches like last month’s incident at Anthem Inc., but a number of data breaches across the globe may have gone unnoticed.
As always, this list is incomplete owing to the vast number of breaches and how easily things are hidden. Please leave a comment if you have a story that you believe should be in this list.
Payment card information
Bulk Reef Supply website compromised, credit cards at risk
Malware installed at California burger joint, payment cards at risk
Hilton HHonors Awards accounts exposed by security flaw
New health care data breaches: another 11 million customer records exposed
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group confirms credit card breach
Point-of-sale provider NEXTEP in the soup over data breach
Natural Grocers investigates payment card data breach
Data breach
Amazon’s Twitch game-streaming service hacked
Health Care Breach Watch: Indiana State Medical Association
Credit reporting company Equifax suffers old-fashioned data breach
Unbanked lender Kreditech suffers insider data breach
British Airways Executive Club members warned of hacked accounts
Xtube porn website spreads malware, after being compromised by hackers
Point-of-Sale Vendor NEXTEP Probes Breach
North Carolina credit union notification says laptop containing data missing
Chip equipment manufacturing giant announces breach
Cyber attack
Yet another Philippine government website hacked by Anonymous
Toys“R”Us resets user passwords following third-party attempts to gain access
Jamie Oliver’s website found spreading malware… again
Run WordPress SEO by Yoast on your website? You need to update it
DDoS attack on feminist blog backfires on International Women’s Day
Other
Gamers warned of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) phishing site
Internet service providers distribute 700,000 routers vulnerable to remote hacking
Bank of America phishing scam alert
Dark web Evolution marketplace vanishes overnight – Evo dealers hit by $12 million “exit scam”
Apple and Android devices vulnerable to FREAK attack – patches on the way
Puush accidentally infects Windows users with password-stealing malware
Thousands of popular iOS and Android apps hit by FREAK flaw