Eurostar has forced all of its customers to reset their passwords after detecting an `` unauthorised attempt '' to hack into its systems and access their accounts . Customers reported receiving an email on Tuesday stating that the company had identified an attempt to access eurostar.com accounts using users ' email and passwords between the 15 and 19 of October . Eurostar confirmed that credit card details and payment details were not compromised Attack.Databreach because the company does not store that information online . Eurostar has yet to confirm how many people have been affected by this data breach Attack.Databreach or whether any data has been taken Attack.Databreach . The company has reported the data breach Attack.Databreach to the Information Commissioner 's Office . `` We have taken this action as a precaution because we identified what we believe to be an unauthorised automated attempt to access Attack.Databreach eurostar.com accounts using your email address and password , '' the company told customers . `` We 've since carried out an investigation which shows that your account was logged into between the 15 and 19 October . If you did n't log in during this period , there 's a possibility your account was accessed Attack.Databreach by this unauthorised attempt . '' Customers were told to check their accounts for `` anything unusual '' and update login details on any other site where they use the same password . A Eurostar spokesman said : `` This email was sent after we identified what we believe to be an unauthorised automated attempt to access customer accounts , so as a precaution , we asked all account holders to reset their password . We deliberately never store any payment details or bank card information , so there is no possibility of those being compromised Attack.Databreach . '' An ICO spokesman said : “ We ’ ve received data breach Attack.Databreach report from Eurostar and are making enquiries. ” Last week , British Airways revealed that almost 200,000 further passengers may have had their personal data stolen Attack.Databreach by hackers in the September attack Attack.Databreach in what experts described as one of the biggest breaches Attack.Databreach of consumer data the UK had ever seen .

East Ohio Regional Hospital in Harper 's Ferry , Ohio , and Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling , West Virginia , both got affected by ransomware on the last weekend of November . [ 1 ] Due to this incident , ambulance patients were transported to other hospitals nearby and emergency room admissions were limited to walk-up patients only . Due to attack , employees needed to switch to paper charting and various systems were taken offline immediately . This fairly quick response limited the ransomware damage and prevented the possible data breach Attack.Databreach . [ 2 ] According to Karin Janiszewski , director of marketing and public relations for EORH and OVMC , hospitals reacted as soon as possible and , at the moment of writing , they are already using the computer network . On the following Saturday , Karin Janiszewski stated : There has been no patient information breach Attack.Databreach . The hospitals are switching to paper charting to ensure patient data protection . We have redundant security , so the attack was able to get through the first layer but not the second layer . IT staff dealt with the outbreak to avoid a data breach Attack.Databreach When it comes to malware attacks on large companies , the loss Attack.Databreach of personal customer data is the worst thing that can happen . It seems that this time the situation was handled quick enough to prevent having the sensitive data being compromised Attack.Databreach . IT team took several computers offline , and , because of this , most of the clinical operations transferred to other units , and emergency patients were automatically taken to different locations . On Saturday , when the incidents occurred , hospital officials stated that the staff is ready to take everything on paper until the downtime is over . Also , since this is a ransomware-type malware attack Attack.Ransom , hackers demand a ransom Attack.Ransom . However , officials did not select the scenario involving making the payment Attack.Ransom . No matter how big or how little the ransom demand Attack.Ransom is , officials should n't even consider making the payment Attack.Ransom because it may lead to system damage or permanent data loss . [ 3 ] In the United States , data breaches Attack.Databreach and malware attacks on huge organizations have become a common thing , especially in the healthcare industry . In 2016 Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital paid the demanded ransom Attack.Ransom in Bitcoin after having its data encrypted . [ 4 ] The infection was widespread and the attack Attack.Ransom cost around $ 17 000 . Another incident that resulted in ransom payment Attack.Ransom was spotted in Kansas Heart Hospital in 2016 also . Unfortunately , after the payment was made Attack.Ransom , attackers disappeared ignoring the promise to decrypt locked files . They send yet another ransom demand Attack.Ransom instead and asked for Attack.Ransom a bigger amount of money . Previously this year , the Indiana-based hospital got infected with SamSam which is an infamous ransomware virus which has been relying on specific infection tactics which is highly personalized . After considering different scenarios , the hospital decided to pay Attack.Ransom 4 BTC ( equal to $ 45 000 at that time ) for ransomware developers to get private keys needed for files ' recovery . Ransomware developers gave what they promised .