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Record-breaking ransoms and breaches: A timeline of ransomware in 2024

From LoanDepot to Evolve Bank and Blue Yonder, these ransomware attacks affect tens of millions of people.

Some 500,000 residents of the City of Columbus, Ohio’s state capital, had their personal data stolen during a July ransomware attack, including names, dates of birth, addresses, government-issued identification documents, Social Security numbers, and their bank account details. Transport for London, the government body overseeing the U.K. capital’s public transit system, experienced weeks of digital disruption following a cyberattack on the authority’s corporate network in September that was later claimed by the infamous Russia-linked Clop ransomware group. The Russian ransomware gang, which similarly breached a major NHS trust in Scotland earlier this year, claimed it obtained Alder Hey patient records and donor reports, along with data from several other hospitals in the nearby area.

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