(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 European Union 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 approved a $45

International 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 ( EMA ) & 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.

Adidas May Germany Sportswear

maker

said

an

unauthorised external

party had obtained

certain consumer data

through a third-party

customer service

provider, albeit not

passwords or credit card

data.

Victoria's May USA Clothing and

Secret lingerie retailer

suspended

most of the

functionality of its

website and some in-store

services for a few days

to contain and prevent

unauthorized network

access.

Telefonica June Spain

Telecommunications

company

said

it was

looking into a potential

cyberattack after data

allegedly belonging to

one million customers in

Peru was released on an

internet forum.

June Switzer Cartier, the

Richemont land luxury jewelry company

owned by Richemont, had

its website

hacked

and some

client data stolen, it

told customers.

Salesforce June USA Hackers are

tricking employees at

companies in Europe and

the Americas into

installing a modified

version of Salesforce's

Data Loader app, Google

said

.

June UK HMRC's

Britain's tax security systems

office (HMRC) detected

unauthorised

access to some customers'

online accounts in an

attempt to claim money.

June USA Whole Foods

United supplier

Natural Foods said

it took

certain systems offline

after finding

unauthorized activity on

internal networks.

Philadelphia June USA The insurer's

Insurance staff remained

Companies offline

for at least

three days after a

"major" ransomware event.

June USA The company, which

Erie manages Erie Insurance,

Indemnity identified unusual

Company network activity after

facing system outages and

disruptions.

June USA The newspaper

Washington said it is

Post investigating

a

cyberattack on email

accounts of some of its

journalists, according to

a source familiar with

the matter and an

internal memo reviewed by

Reuters.

UBS and June Switzer The Swiss banks said they

Pictet land had suffered a data leak

that did not compromise

client information,

although a newspaper

report said thousands of

UBS workers' data was

affected.

June USA The health

Aflac and life insurer

disclosed

a

cybersecurity incident in

which personal

information of its

customers may have been

compromised.

(SOURCE: Reuters' stories, company announcements, other news media outlets)