Louisiana Governor John Del Edwards was forced to declare a state of emergency last Friday after suffering a cyberattack that left 10% of the state's computer network servers damaged. Louisiana's Deputy Chief Information Officer, Neal Underwood, claims that the ransomware attack left one in ten of Louisiana's 5,000 computer network servers that power operations across the state damaged in last week's attack.

Macy's has begun notifying some of its online customers that their payment details have been compromised due to Magecart code that compromised parts of their website. The breach notice claims that on October 15, 2019, Macy's was alerted to a suspicious connection between macys.com and another site.

US hosting provider SmarterASP.NET has been hit by a serious ransomware attack that's impacted the websites of its 440,000+ customers. SmarterASP.NET's website and those of its entire customer base went offline yesterday following the attack. According to the notice published today by the company, "Your hosting account was under attack and hackers have encrypted all your data."

Security breaches reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada have skyrocketed since the country introduced its new privacy on November 1, 2018. A blog published by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada claims they have received 680 breach reports within the last year, six times the number they received during the same period just one year prior.

Japanese media firm, Nikkei, was recently scammed out of $29 million dollars after an employee fell for a classic business email compromise (BEC) attack. The firm recently issued a statement claiming that in late September of 2019, an employee of its subsidiary Nikkei America, Inc. transferred $29 million after receiving instructions from a malicious third party claiming to be a management executive at Nikkei.