May 21 (Reuters) - Global companies are grappling with a surge in cyber and ransomware attacks, with increasingly sophisticated threat actors disrupting operations and compromising sensitive data across diverse sectors—from healthcare and financial services to retail and regulatory bodies.
Here is a list of companies and regulators across the U.S., UK, and Europe that have been affected by or reported cyber incidents this year.
Company | Month | Region | Impact |
Smiths Group SMIN.L | January | UK | Cybersecurity incident involved unauthorised access to its systems. |
Big Cheese Studio BCSP.WA | January | Poland | An incident at the Polish game developer led to hackers gaining access to the company's game code systems and personal data of its employees. Hackers demanded a ransom of 100,000 zlotys in crypto currencies. |
MGM Resorts International MGM.N | January | USA | Court approved a $45 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over two data breaches at MGM in 2019 and 2023, affecting millions of customers. |
Clorox | February | USA | A Clorox executive said the bleach maker has fully restored distribution that was lost during a cyber attack in 2023. |
Eckert & Ziegler EUZG.DE | February | Germany | Suffered a cyber attack on parts of its IT systems but said its production was largely unaffected |
Marks & Spencer MKS.L | April | UK | Online orders halted for more than 3 weeks leading to the British retailer flagging a 300 million pound hit to profit. |
Hertz HTZ.O | April | USA | Rental car firm reported some of its user data was stolen in a breach involving one of its vendors. |
DaVita DVA.N | April | USA | Dialysis firm was hit by ransomware attack that encrypted certain elements of its network, with some of its operations disrupted despite interim measures. |
U.S. office of the Comptroller of the Currency $(OCC)$ | April | USA | The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said that emails of executives and other employees of the agency were hacked, blaming longstanding vulnerabilities for the breach. |
Emera Inc EMA.TO & its unit Nova Scotia power | April | USA | The energy providers said they were addressing a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to parts of their Canadian network and servers, while customer data was accessed & stolen. |
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) | April | USA | A whistleblower complaint says that billionaire Elon Musk's team of technologists (DOGE) may have been responsible for a "significant cybersecurity breach," likely of sensitive case files, at America's federal labor watchdog. |
LVHM's Christian Dior Couture | May | France | Hit by a cyber attack, with hackers obtaining some of its customers' data, Bloomberg News reported. |
Co-op Group 42TE.L | May | UK | Grocery chain reported that hackers had accessed and extracted customer data from one of its systems. |
Harrods | May | UK | Department store said hackers had attempted to break into its systems. |
UK's Legal Aid Agency | May | UK | A "significant" amount of personal data, including criminal records, of applicants who had applied for legal aid since 2010 was accessed & stolen. |
(SOURCE: Reuters' stories, company announcements, other news media outlets)
(Reporting by DhanushVignesh Babu and Ankita Bora in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)
((Ankita.Bora@thomsonreuters.com))
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