(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.

Impact

Company Month

Region

Smiths Group ( SMGKF ) January UK Cybersecurity incident

involved unauthorised

access to its systems.

Big Cheese January Poland An incident at the Polish

Studio 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 ( MGM ) January USA Court

International 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 & February Germany Suffered a cyber attack

Ziegler on parts of its IT

systems but said its

production was largely

unaffected

Marks & April UK Online orders halted for

Spencer more than 3 weeks leading

to the British retailer

flagging a 300 million

pound hit to profit.

Hertz April USA Rental car firm reported

some of its user data was

stolen in a breach

involving one of its

vendors.

DaVita ( DVA ) 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 April USA The U.S. Treasury

of the Department's Office of

Comptroller the Comptroller of the

of the Currency said that emails

Currency of executives and other

(OCC) employees of the agency

were hacked, blaming

longstanding

vulnerabilities for the

breach.

Emera Inc ( EMRAF ) & April USA The energy providers said

its unit Nova they were addressing a

Scotia power cybersecurity incident

involving unauthorized

access to parts of their

Canadian network and

servers, while customer

data was accessed &

stolen.

National April USA A whistleblower complaint

Labor says that billionaire

Relations Elon Musk's team of

Board (NLRB) technologists (DOGE) may

have been responsible for

a "significant

cybersecurity breach,"

likely of sensitive case

files, at America's

federal labor watchdog.

LVHM's May France Hit by a cyber attack,

Christian with hackers obtaining

Dior Couture some of its customers'

data, Bloomberg News

reported.

Co-op Group 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 May UK A "significant" amount of

Aid Agency 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)