Cyber Attack and Business Continuity Incident Examples

More organisations report potential impact from Beacon CRM cyber attack. Museums including Foundling Museum, London; Sheffield's National Videogame Museum, York Museums Trust, the Paul Mellon Centre; UP Projects &English National Ballet are among the arts organisations affected. Charities have been to told to “assume that all data that you store in Beacon, including attachment files, has been accessed”. Source: Museums Association

Company employees tricked by impersonating CEO in fake gift card fraud. (Article contains some useful screen shots). Source: NDTV

Southampton charities Southampton Hospitals Charity & Saints Foundation have been identified as two of the many charities targeted in a cyber-security incident linked to a customer relationship management technology provider. Source: Daily Echo

The City of Pittsburg made an unauthorized ACH payment of $913,839.81 to a fraudulent bank account after scammers impersonated a known vendor. Source: Yahoo News

Cyber criminals have been identified  using malicious files disguised as 'Statement of Account', 'RBI' or 'MCA' to infect both Windows computers and hijack active WhatsApp Web sessions. Financial organisations and professionals are the primary target. Source: New Indian Express

A cyber crimminal organisation is utargetting financial organisations using social engineering and vishing techniques to acquire logon credentials: Source: Cyber Press

Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models was able to break out of a test environment  and penetrate another organisations systems - emphasising the need for robust containment of test environments. Source: BBC

John Hopkins MyJH portal subjected to phishing & "ghost" site attacks. The portal provides access to highly sensitive employee information including salary, benefits, and personal profiles. Source: John Hopkins website

Data from Arts and Cultural organisations leaked following a cyber attack on their CRM servicesprovider. English National Ballet among the organisations impacted by the attack. Source: The Standard

Repeated attacks on US water utilities and government sites point to nation state involvement Source: BBC

A cyberattack accesed the data of some 31,000 people contained in the principality's register of economic interests. The register contains details of people behind companies and foundations registered in principality and underpins anti-maoey laundering activities. Source: AP News

A cyber attack of the police national legal database (PNLD), contact details of 100,000 police officers were leaked to the !dark web". Source: Daily Telegraph

A wave of yber attacks has targetted water compnaies in both  Wisconsin & Minnesota. the objective of the attack was to compromise water management systems and the culrpits are suspected to be suspected to be faciltated by hostime nations states, Source: CNN

West Norfolk Council became the target of a cyber attack during local elections.  Although no data theft or comprimise was detectted, web and telephony services were suspended for several hours with full IT systems availbility retored after 24 hours. Souce: BBC

A cyber attack on the UK Department of Education has resulted in the exfiltration of 607,000 records, including email addresses and telephone numbers. The hacking gang, ExfilSquad has claimed responsibility and demanding a ransom. Source: The Guardian

The accidental cyber attack caused by the Open AI agent breaching has affected at least one other organisation. It has been established that the agent was "in the wild" for around 4 days and hit a cloud service provider as well as Hugging Face. Source: Politico

24/07/2026: A fire on a farm & industrial unit  in Essex spread to a fertiliser store causing a major explosion heard from miles aroound the site. The fire & explosion caused significant damage to commercial premises at the site. destroying workplaces, equipment and inventory. Restricted site access & road closures remain in place nearly a week after, Source: BBC

Hackers discovered using hotel Wi-Fi gateways to acquire user credentials. Wi-Fi routers are compromised to redirect users to fake Microsoft 365 login pages to steal log-in credentials: Source: Security Affairs

Edinburgh based Health Tech suffers significant cyber attack involving data breach. A statement issued by the company  said "A percentage of Craneware employee data as well as a subset of customer and partner records have been accessed and exfiltrated.". Source: Yahoo Finance 

OpenAI cyber security testing "escapes" test environment, launches live attack on start-up. Source: BBC

Persistent technical failures interrupt the operation of Malaysia's recently deployed Corporate Registry System (CRS),has severely disrupted business registrations, statutory filings, financing activities, share transactions, corporate restructuring and investment activities nationwide. Source: The Star

Ecopetrol , the Colombian state ‌energy company disclosed a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of data related to approximately 3,300 user accounts and that the breach could result in a "material adverse" financial impact. Source: Reuters

Abbott Laboratories investigates two cyber incidents on its internal systems at its cancer diagnostics business and its ‌LabCentral portal. Although operations have not been affected. The company continues to investigate the extent of the breach. Source: Yahoo Finance

Ernst & Young suffered a data breach facilitated by the compromise of a third-party support ticket system used by its IT personnel.

Support tickets submitted through the platform could have included documents containing client tax information.Source: Bleeping Computer

A ransomware cyberattack forces milk brand Fairlife to pause production in its U.S. operation following a confirmed cyber breached of the company's systems. Source: ABC News

An oversight during a systems upgrade caused a 12 hours outage in the Australian Telstra communications network. Customers lost mobile network access, trains were disrupted, ratil payment systems were unavailable and emergency services calls were "dropped". Source:BBC News

Major frozen food supplier hit by cyber attack Source:Japan Today

Microbursts cause significant damage to commercial and residential properties. Many business were forced to find   alternative workplaces while rebuilds and repairs were performed. As of 15/07/2026 emergency services were still an "incident stabilisation" situation, implying significant operational impairment for affected organisations. Source:AccuWeather

A server migration and software update led to a major failure of the interface and licensing software required to access the central servers. The functioning of all Berlin’s ordinary courts and regional courts,were severely restricted or brought to a complete halt.  Paper-only procedures were required to maintain case progression. 

Performance & login issues  persisted for several days. Source: Ground News

A building roof collapse in Leicester city centre  affected several nearby businesses, suspending deliveries and rendering commercial premises & contents inaccesible for several days while full structural surveys were undertaken Source:Leicester Mercury Update: access restrictions remain for 10 days while safety works undertaken   Update 2 Access to property re-established 31st July - 18 days after incident