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A state-sponsored cyber-espionage operation attributed to China's APT31 breached the internal IT systems of the Finnish Parliament in 2020, compromising email accounts belonging to members of parliament.
Attackers exploited a zero-day in the legacy Accellion File Transfer Appliance to breach New Zealand's central bank, accessing commercially and personally sensitive files; the cleanup cost the Reserve Bank around NZ$3.5 million.
In early 2023, a corpus of data sourced from the New Zealand based face mask company MEO was discovered. Dating back to December 2020, the data contained over 8k customer records including names, addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 Wordpress hashes.
In December 2020, the University of California suffered a data breach due to vulnerability in in a third-party provider, Accellion. The breach exposed extensive personal data on both students and staff including 547 thousand unique email addresses, names, dates of birth, genders, social security…
In December 2020, the book promotion site NetGalley suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.4 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.
In December 2020, the dental practice management service MMG Fusion was the victim of a data breach which exposed 2.6M unique email addresses. The data also included patient appointments, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and physical addresses.
In December 2020, the car dealership service provider DriveSure suffered a data breach. The incident resulted in 26GB of data being downloaded and later shared on a hacking forum. Impacted personal information included 3.6 million unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses.
In July 2023, a list of alleged attendees from the 2017-2020 Roblox Developers Conferences was circulated on a forum. The data contained 4k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, dates of birth, phone numbers, physical and IP addresses and T-shirt sizes
In December 2020, the Oklahoma state Tourism and Recreation Department suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 637k email addresses across a variety of tables including age ranges against brochure orders and dates of birth against contest entries.
In December 2020, the UK power company People's Energy suffered a data breach. The breach exposed almost 7GB of files containing 359k unique email addresses along with names, phones numbers, physical addresses and dates of birth.
Russian SVR operators trojanized SolarWinds Orion build infrastructure, distributing a backdoored update to 18,000 customers including the U.S. Treasury, Commerce, DHS, State, and Energy departments. The defining state cyberespionage operation of the decade.
In December 2020, the economic research company Capital Economics suffered a data breach that exposed 263k customer records. The exposed data included email and physical addresses, names, phone numbers, job titles and the employer of impacted customers.
In December 2020, India's "largest esports community" GamingMonk (since acquired by and redirected to MPL Esports), suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 655k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth and bcrypt password hashes.
The Black Shadow group breached Israeli insurer Shirbit, stealing ID cards, passports, financial and medical documents, and demanded a bitcoin ransom that escalated toward $1 million. When Shirbit refused, the attackers leaked customer data in stages.
In November 2020, a collection of more than 23,000 allegedly breached websites known as Cit0day were made available for download on several hacking forums.
The RansomExx gang encrypted more than 1,000 servers at Brazil's Superior Tribunal de Justiça, paralysing the country's second-highest court for over a week in the most severe cyberattack ever against a Brazilian public institution.
In October 2020, 17 previously undisclosed data breaches appeared for sale including the Thai restaurant, hotel and attraction finding service, Wongnai.
Records on approximately 33,000 patients of Finnish psychotherapy provider Vastaamo were stolen in 2018 from an unencrypted database with no root password. After failed company-extortion in October 2020, the attacker sent ransom demands to ~30,000 patients directly. Founder later acquitted; Aleksanteri Kivimäki convicted and sentenced to 6 years 3 months.
In September 2021, a publicly accessible PostgresSQL database belonging to the Playbook service was identified. Run by VC firm Plug and Play Ventures, the database had been exposed since October 2020 and contained more than 50 thousand unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, job…
In October 2020, the Indian grocery platform bigbasket suffered a data breach that exposed over 20 million customer records. The data was originally sold before being leaked publicly in April the following year and included email, IP and physical addresses, names, phones numbers, dates of birth…
In October 2021, a database backup taken from the 3D model sharing service Thingiverse began extensively circulating within the hacking community. Dating back to October 2020, the 36GB file contained 228 thousand unique email addresses, mostly alongside comments left on 3D models.
In October 2020, the online game for kids Animal Jam suffered a data breach which was subsequently shared through online hacking communities the following month. The data contained 46 million user accounts with over 7 million unique email addresses.
In late 2020, the Japanese family photos website Famm suffered a data breach that subsequently exposed 1.3M customer records, including 535k unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes.
In October 2020, the VPN provider LimeVPN suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of customers. The data included email, IP and physical addresses, names, phone numbers, purchase histories and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.