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In December 2022, India’s government-approved online travel agency RailYatri suffered a data breach. The incident impacted over 31M customers and exposed 23M unique email addresses. Also impacted were names, genders, phone numbers and tickets purchased, including travel information and fares.
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children was hit by a ransomware attack over the December 2022 holidays that delayed lab and imaging results; in a rare move, the LockBit gang apologized, blamed a rogue affiliate, and released a free decryptor.
In late 2022, a hacker posted a data set to a public hacking forum which they alleged was sourced from the Gemini crypto exchange, a claim that was later proven to be false as the data was traced back to an incident at a third-party vendor.
The BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang crippled Colombia's largest public utility, Empresas Públicas de Medellín, forcing 4,000 staff to work offline and disrupting electricity, water, and gas billing across 123 municipalities.
In December 2022, over 400GB of data belonging to restaurant customer management platform SevenRooms was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum. The data included 1.2M unique email addresses alongside names and purchases.
In December 2022, attackers socially engineered an Activision HR employee into disclosing information which led to the breach of almost 20k employee records. The data contained 16k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, job titles and the office location of the employee.
In December 2022, the online firearms auction website GunAuction.com suffered a data breach which was later discovered left unprotected on the hacker's server.
In December 2022, the Crypto & NFT taxes service CoinTracker reported a data breach that impacted over 1.5M of their customers. The company later attributed the breach to a compromise SendGrid in an attack that targeted multiple customers of the email provider.
In November 2022, the well-known hacking forum "BreachForums" was itself, breached. Later the following year, the operator of the website was arrested and the site seized by law enforcement agencies.
The RansomHouse gang struck Colombian healthcare giant Keralty and its EPS Sanitas and Colsanitas subsidiaries, claiming 3 TB of stolen data and crippling appointment scheduling for a network serving more than 6 million patients.
In December 2022, the Movie Forums website suffered a data breach that affected 40k users. The breach exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and passwords stored as easily crackable salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently posted a popular clear web hacking forum.
Ransomware encrypted the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi — India's most prestigious public hospital — taking patient registration and clinical records offline for two weeks during peak winter patient load.
In November 2022, the Moroccan e-commerce service Avito suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 2.7M customers. The data included name, email, phone, IP address and geographic location.
In June 2023, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced a data breach of their Washington State Food Worker Card online training system. The breach was published to a popular hacking forum the year before and dated back to a 2018 database backup.
In November 2022, the gaming website dedicated to classic DOS games Abandonia suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 920k unique user records. This breach was in addition to another one 7 years earlier in 2015.
The Daixin Team ransomware gang breached AirAsia, stealing and leaking personal data on roughly 5 million unique passengers and all of the airline's employees, after the carrier reportedly declined to negotiate a ransom.
A cyberattack on subcontractor Supeo forced it to shut down its servers, disabling a mobile app train drivers rely on for operational data and halting all DSB trains across Denmark for several hours — a textbook supply-chain disruption of critical transport.
In November 2022, the Indonesian oil and gas company Pertamina suffered a data breach of their MyPertamina service. The incident exposed 44M records with 6M unique email addresses along with names, dates of birth, genders, physical addresses and purchases.
In October 2022, the GTA mod menu provider RealDudesInc suffered a data breach that exposed over 100k email addresses (many of which are temporary guest account addresses). The breach also included usernames and bcrypt password hashes.
Russian-speaking attackers exfiltrated full health-claim records on 9.7 million current and former Medibank customers, then released them in tranches on the dark web after the Australian insurer refused to pay.
In October 2022, the Doomworld fourm suffered a data breach that exposed 34k member records. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and bcrypt password hashes.
In October 2022, "The Industry's Leading Online-to-Offline Shopping Solution" Locally suffered a data breach. Whilst Locally acknowledged the breach privately, it's unknown whether impacted customers were subsequently notified of the incident which exposed over 362k names, phone numbers, email and…
In September 2022, the online photo sharing platform ClickASnap suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 3.3M personal records including email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as SHA-512 hashes.
In September 2022, the in-game trading marketplace Traderie suffered a data breach that exposed almost 400k records (this preceded a subsequent breach the following year). The incident exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and links to social media profiles.