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REvil/Sodinokibi operators detonated against Travelex on New Year's Eve 2019 after dwelling in the network for six months via an unpatched Pulse Secure VPN. Travelex paid $2.3 million; parent Finablr failed; PwC put Travelex into administration with the loss of over 1,300 jobs.
In December 2019, the booking website Sonicbids suffered a data breach which they attributed to "a data privacy event involving our third-party cloud hosting services". The breach contained 752k user records including names and usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes.
In December 2019, a large collection of data from Nigerian gambling company Surebet247 was sent to HIBP. Alongside the Surebet247, database backups from gambling sites BetAlfa, BetWay, BongoBongo and TopBet was also included.
TA505 used Clop ransomware to encrypt 267 Maastricht University servers over Christmas 2019 after two phishing emails on 15–16 October had compromised the network. The university paid 30 BTC (~$220,000). The ransom Bitcoin — later seized from a money mule — was returned and had appreciated, leaving the university ahead by ~$300,000.
In approximately December 2019, an alleged data breach of the lawyer directory service Avvo was published to an online hacking forum and used in an extortion scam (it's possible the exposure dates back earlier than that).
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming platform GameSprite suffered a data breach that exposed over 6M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
In December 2019, the now defunct German gaming website Go Ninja suffered a data breach that exposed 5M unique email addresses. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
Canada's largest medical-testing laboratory disclosed that attackers had accessed health data on roughly 15 million customers, paid an undisclosed ransom to retrieve the stolen records, and was later found by privacy regulators to have failed to safeguard the information.
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming website SoarGames suffered a data breach that exposed 4.8M unique email addresses. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
In December 2019, the forum for the JoyGames website suffered a data breach that exposed 4.5M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming website Unigame (maker of Hunter Online) suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 844k email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
An Emotet–TrickBot–Ryuk malware chain crippled the Rudolf and Stefanie Hospital in Benešov, Czech Republic, knocking out X-ray, ultrasound, and laboratory systems and paralysing the facility for weeks. The hospital did not pay the ransom and reported no patient-record loss.
In November 2019, the Vietnamese education website TaiLieu allegedly suffered a data breach exposing 7.3M customer records. Impacted data included names and usernames, email addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
DoppelPaymer ransomware paralysed corporate IT systems at Mexican state oil company Pemex, freezing payments and communications for weeks. Attackers demanded 565 BTC (~$5M). Pemex refused to pay; total recovery cost reached approximately $71 million.
In November 2019, the Serbian technology news website Benchmark suffered a breach of its forum that exposed 93k customer records. The breach exposed IP and email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
In mid-2021, reports emerged of a data breach of Indonesia's telecommunications company, IndiHome. Over 26M rows of data alleged to have been sourced from the company was posted to a popular hacking forum and contained 12.6M unique email addresses alongside names, IP addresses, genders and…
In approximately November 2019, the Russian "Remote preparatory faculty for IT specialties" Universarium suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 565k email addresses and passwords in plain text. Universarium did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact over a period of many weeks.
In November 2019, the website for Indian Rail left more than 2M records exposed on an unprotected Firebase database instance. The exposed data included 583k unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored in plain text.
In October 2019, security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko identified an unprotected Elasticsearch server holding 1.2 billion records of personal data.
In October 2019, the Dutch prostitution forum Hookers.nl suffered a data breach which exposed the personal information of sex workers and their customers.
In October 2019, the Minnesota-based news service StarTribune suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold on the dark web. The breach exposed over 2 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
In September 2019, the Halloween costume store The Halloween Spot suffered a data breach. Originally misattributed to fancy dress store Smiffys, the breach contained 13GB of data with over 10k unique email addresses alongside names, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers and order histories.
In September 2019, the zoophilia and bestiality forum Zooville suffered a data breach. The usernames and email addresses of 71k members were accessed via an unpatched vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software then subsequently distributed online.
In September 2019, Polish torrent site AgusiQ-Torrents.pl suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 90k member records including email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.