Data Breach Report: April 2018

Below is a compilation of news articles covering some of the notable data breaches that occurred in April 2018. Doesn’t this really put things into perspective?

Saks, Lord & Taylor hit by payment card data breach – April 3

Best Buy hit by [24]7.ai data breach, too – April 5

Panera Bread’s half-baked security – April 6

Data breach at military resort in Germany leaves soldiers open to identity theft – April 9

IG: Interior Dept. computer infected with malware after employee surfed porn sites – April 9

‘Impregnable’ radar breached in simulated cyber attack – April 10

TaskRabbit Takes Down App And Website After Getting Hacked – April 18

Red Bull’s website hacked twice during a breach – April 23

Ride-hailing app Careem reveals data breach affecting 14 million people – April 23

Another Data Breach? Say It Ain’t So – April 25

Data Breach Exposes Thousands Who Bought Into a Cryptocurrency Backed by John McAfee – April 26

Ransomware exposes records of 85,000 Center for Orthopaedic Specialists patients – April 27

MyEtherWallet DNS Hack Causes 17 Million USD User Loss – April 29

Read last month’s breach report here.