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Feedly
June 11, 2014
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[ financial, ddos, technology ]
News aggregator Feedly is made inaccessible by a DDoS attack. Attackers demand a ransom to stop their crippling assault, which the company refuses to pay.
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Placemark Investments
June 10, 2014
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[ hack, finance ]
Placemark Investments begins notifying an undisclosed number of clients that their personal information may have been exposed when one of its servers was breached.
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SingPass
June 5, 2014
1,500 online identification accounts used for accessing Singapore government services may have been accessed illicitly.
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Autonation
June 5, 2014
National automobile retailer AutoNation notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their payment card data, as well as other information, may have been captured by hackers that compromised AutoNation websites hosted and operated by TradeMotion.
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Power Equipment Direct
June 2, 2014
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
Power Equipment Direct (PED) notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been accessed when the server that handles the company's checkout process was infected with malware.
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Office
May 29, 2014
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[ leak, retail ]
UK shoe retailer Office sends its customers an email, explaining that it has suffered a serious security breach. Information accessed includes customers' names, addresses, birth date and month (but not year), password and phone number of accounts created prior to August 2013.
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Avast
May 27, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
The support forum of Avast is hacked. Attackers get access to cryptographically hashed passwords, usernames, and e-mail addresses for about 400,000 people.
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New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
May 26, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
A $12.7 million supercomputer owned by Niwa (New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research) is targeted by a computer hacker believed to have come from China.
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Ukrainian Election Commission
May 22, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The official website of Ukraine's election commission (cvk.gov) is targeted by a massive DDoS attack on the eve of country's presidential polls. The pro-Russian CyberBerkut collective claims responsibility for the attack.
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Typepad
May 19, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Typepad, the famous blogging platform is under a sustained DDoS attack.
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Road sign in San Francisco
May 16, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
An unknown prankster hacker hacks an electronic traffic sign in San Francisco warning of a Godzilla Attack.
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University of California Irvine
May 15, 2014
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[ hack, malware, education ]
More than 1,800 University of California (UC), Irvine, students are notified that they may have had personal information compromised after keylogger malware was discovered on three Student Health Center (SHC) computers for about six weeks.
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Soma Municipality
May 14, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists of the RedHack collective blame authorities for the incident in the mine of Soma, and as a consequence they deface the official website of the Soma Municipality.
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Gary Barlow
May 12, 2014
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[ hack, social ]
The Twitter account of Gary Barlow (@GaryBarlow) the former frontman of the famous boy band Take That is hacked.
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Indian Ministry of Railways
May 11, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Another episode of the Cyber War between India and Pakistan. A Pakistani hacker called rOOX from Team MadLeets defaces the server of Indian Ministry of Railway, which includes around 47 domains.
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DeKalb Health
April 29, 2014
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Dekalb Health notifies that 1,361 records including a mix of names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, credit card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, passwords, email addresses, insurance information, service types, and other details have been compromised.
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CNET
July 14, 2014
A Russian hacker group calling itself W0rm claims to have penetrated CNET's website stealing a database of registered reader data (1 million users). Hackers demand 1 bitcoin.
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Israel Defense Forces
July 4, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army hacks the Twitter account and official blog of the Israel Defence Forces (@IDFSpokeperson) and posts a fake tweet related to a possible nuclear leak to the 300,000 account followers.
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Privatbank
June 30, 2014
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[ hack, finance ]
Hackers from the Green Dragon Crew hack Privatbank, the bank owned by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi.
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Butler University
June 30, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
Personal and financial information of some 163,000 students, alumni, faculty, staff, and past applicants of Indianapolis-based Butler University have been stolen following a hack of the university's computer network.
