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Jean-Jacques Quisquater
February 1, 2014
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[ espionage, malware ]
Jean-Jacques Quisquater, a Belgian cryptographer, is an apparent victim of the NSA's Regin malware.
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Carlo Ancelotti
February 1, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
The Twitter account of Carlo Ancelotti (@MrAncelotti), the manager of the Spanish football team Real Madrid, has been hacked.
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State Industrial Products
January 30, 2014
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[ hack, manufacturing ]
The FBI alerts State Industrial Products that the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of 500-1000 current and former employees may be at risk after an unauthorized party gained access to the information.
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Ministry of Police Affairs
January 30, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The official website of Nigeria's Ministry of Police Affairs (policeaffairs.gov.ng) is breached and defaced by hackers of the Nigerian Cyber Army.
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Various Government Websites
February 11, 2014
Hackers belonging to a group called Syrian Anonymous deface a total of 25 Nigerian government websites.The list of hacked websites includes the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Power, and many others.
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Bitstamp
February 11, 2014
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[ hack, malware, finance ]
Reuters reports that the virtual currency Bitcoin is being hit by attacks from unknown hackers sending "mutated" lines of code into the program that runs the virtual currency. Two exchanges, Bitstamp and Mt. Gox, are affected.
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Dubai Police
February 10, 2014
Hackers of a group called TheHorsemen have hijacked the official Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Tumblr accounts of the Dubai Police (@DubaiPoliceHQ).
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Kars Municipality
February 10, 2014
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[ hack, government, education ]
The infamous RedHack collective joins the protests against the new Internet Law, and leak around two dozen records. They also deface a couple of local sites and hack the Ministry of Education.
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Official website of the President of Nepal
February 8, 2014
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[ hack, leak, sqlinjection ]
Two separate attacks deface the official website of Nepal's Office of the President (presidentofnepal.gov.np). In the first case, the attacker who goes by Dr.3v1l, also leaked some information stolen from the DB. The second attack was carried out by an Indian hacker.
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St. Joseph Health System
February 5, 2014
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[ hack, healthcare ]
More than 400,000 patients and employees of St. Joseph Health System are notified that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and, in some cases, bank account information, may have been accessed following an attack on the health system's computer system.
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Turkcell
February 4, 2014
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[ leak, hack, technology ]
Hackers of the RedHack group claim to have breached the systems of three major telecoms companies: TTNET, Vodafone and Turkcell. After the attack they leak the details of hundreds of individuals from TTNET and 5,000 Vodafone customers.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock
January 31, 2014
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Dartmouth-Hitchcock notifies some employees that their names and direct deposit bank account information were compromised after some employees fell for a phishing attempt.
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Experian
January 30, 2014
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[ hack, finance ]
Experian notifies that an unauthorized access to the consumers' credit reports in Experian's database occurred between January 30 and January 31, and would have involved name and address as well as one or more of date of birth, Social Security numbers, account information, and whatever information you'd find in a credit report.
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Israeli Defense Ministry
January 26, 2014
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[ hack, malware, government ]
Earlier in January, unknown hackers break into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software looking like it had been sent by the country's Shin Bet secret security service.
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US Federal Court System
January 25, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Several websites of the US federal court system, including the ones of the United States Courts (uscourts.gov) and Public Access to Court Electronic Records (pacer.gov), are taken down by a DDOS attack.
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Michael's
January 25, 2014
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[ financial, retail ]
Multiple sources in the banking industry say they are tracking a pattern of fraud on cards recently used at Michaels Stores Inc., an Irving, Texas-based arts-and-crafts retailer that maintains more than 1,250 stores across the United States.
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Board of Control for Cricket in India
January 27, 2014
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[ hack ]
A Bangladeshi hacker called Ashik Iqbal Chy defaces the official website of Indian cricket's Governing body (bcci.tv) to protest against takeover proposal.
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Youth for Achievements
January 23, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Azerbaijan Hackers from Anti-Armenia Team have hacked and defaced several Armenian government ministries websites.
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ThrustVPS
January 21, 2014
Virtual private server firm ThrustVPS is the victim of a DDOS and Spear-Phishing attack and, as a precaution, asks to its customers to change passwords.
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AVG
January 15, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
19 official domains of AVG are defaced by different hackers from Indonesia and Pakistan.
