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American Institutes for Research
May 21, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
About 6,500 current and former employees of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) may have had personal information compromised after unauthorized access was gained to one of the organization's servers.
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Rawalpindi Police
May 16, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The official website of the Rawalpindi police in Pakistan (rawalpindipolice.gov.pk) is defaced by Anti Mortadin!@, a group that appears to support the Taliban.
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Gingerbread Shed Corporation
May 13, 2014
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[ hack ]
Arizona-based Gingerbread Shed Corporation notifies customers that an unauthorized individual gained access to its systems for roughly three months and may have compromised about 50,000 transactions, as well as other data.
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WooThemes
May 9, 2014
WooThemes, the popular Theme Creator for Wordpress confirms to have been hacked after many users complained of fraudulent credit card transactions.
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Point DNS
May 9, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Domain host Point DNS has been hammered with a high intensity DDoS attack on Friday, knocking servers out for hours.
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Ground(ctrl)
May 7, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
Ground(ctrl), a company which builds social networking sites and other services for musicians, begins notifying an undisclosed number of users that their personal information may have been exposed when the company's network was hacked.
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University of North Carolina Wilmington
May 2, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
An undisclosed number of employees, graduate students and adjunct instructors with the University of North Carolina Wilmington (uncw.edu) may have had personal information compromised after unauthorized access was gained to an applications server.
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British National Party
May 2, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The official Twitter account of the British National Party and its leader is hacked by Anon_0x03, an individual claiming to be affiliated to the infamous collective Anonymous.
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UltraDNS
April 30, 2014
UltraDNS is the victim of a DDoS Attack.
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Eircom
April 30, 2014
Eircom is forced to shut down its email service after detecting unauthorized access to the system.
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Gateway Savings and Loans Limited
July 4, 2014
Nigerian Police investigates a multi-million fraud by unknown hackers, reportedly hacking into Ogun State-owned mortgage bank, Gateway Savings and Loans Limited, and stealing millions of Naira.
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Finnish Foreign Ministry
July 2, 2014
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[ espionage, government ]
Finland admits to have been attacked by hackers working for one or several foreign nations who stole a "remarkable" number of files over a period of several years.
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Houston Astros
July 1, 2014
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[ hack, espionage ]
The systems of the Houston Astros baseball team are accessed by an unauthorized person, who extracted content revealing internal trade talks.
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University of California Washington Center
June 26, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
The University of California, Washington Center (UCDC) notifies alumni of a breach involving their course pre-enrollment system. The attack targeted UCDC's cloud-based provider, GoSignMeUp.com.
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Cryptome
June 25, 2014
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Whistle-blowing site Cryptome is left temporarily unavailable after its service provider NetSol stops routing traffic towards the site following the discovery of a suspect and probably malicious PHP file.
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Montana Department of Public Health
June 24, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Montana officials notify 1.3 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by hackers who broke into a state health department computer server.
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British Gas
June 22, 2014
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[ hack, energy ]
British Gas' support team Twitter account (@BritishGasHelp) is hacked and starts posting very strange tweets.
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Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment
June 20, 2014
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[ hack, malware, government ]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) is the victim of a targeted attack carried on through a specifically crafted malware distributed via a spear phishing campaign.
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AT&T
June 16, 2014
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[ insider, technology ]
AT&T confirms that outside attackers (allegedly employees of one of AT&T's service providers) compromised the personal information of an undisclosed number of AT&T Mobility members.
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Craftsman Book
June 12, 2014
An estimated 11,000 customers who bought products from Craftsman-book.com have their credit card details compromised after the company website is compromised.
