DoppelPaymer ransomware gang demanded Bitcoins worth about $34 million to unlock Foxconn's data encrypted in a ransomware attack that stole 100 GB of data and encrypted 1,200 servers.
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Brazil's Ministry of Health website data leak exposed medical records of 243 million living and deceased Brazilians after database access credentials were saved in the source code.
A hacker on a Russian-speaking forum is selling hundreds of business executives' email and password combinations for Office 365 and Microsoft accounts for use in BEC scams.
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Despite the NSA warning of hackers exploiting bugs such as Bluekeep and Heartbleed vulnerabilities and updates being released, millions of vulnerable systems remained unpatched.
