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UNICEF
October 2, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army hacks the Official UNICEF Twitter account (@UNICEF) to share the news of a bomb blast in a Syrian school which killed 49 children.
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Supervalu
October 2, 2014
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
The Supervalu supermarket chain recently announced that a new malware was discovered in late August or early September 2014 in the part of its network that processes payment card transactions for some of its Shop 'n Save, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy and Cub Foods stores.
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Flinn Scientific
October 2, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
An undisclosed number of customers who made purchases on the Flinn Scientific website are notified that their personal information, including payment card data, may have been compromised in a malware attack on the company's server that hosts its internet store.
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Valve
October 1, 2014
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[ hack, espionage, technology ]
Four men between 18 and 28 are charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft, the US Army and leading games manufacturers (Epic Games, Valve, and Zombie Studios), as part of an alleged international hacking ring that netted more than $100M in intellectual property.
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United Overseas Bank
October 1, 2014
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[ financial, hack, finance ]
A gang of Latin American Hackers steals more than $1.2 million from 17 automated teller machines (ATMs) belonging to United Overseas Bank, Affin Bank, Al Rajhi Bank and Bank of Islam in Malaysia.
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The Brightside Group
September 29, 2014
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[ hack, finance ]
The Brightside Group, manager of several motor insurance websites, acknowledges a breach in its security system.
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Airports Authority of India
September 24, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Unknown hackers breach the website of the Airports Authority of India (aai.aero) and steal critical data pertaining to airports around India (the breach happened on July 2014 but was discovered only now).
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Activision Blizzard
September 23, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hackers from the group Lizard Squad reneged on their promise to quit earlier this month, apparently launching DDoS attacks against Blizzard's servers running Call Of Duty: Ghosts and Destiny.
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K Box
September 19, 2014
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[ hack, leak ]
A Singapore-based karaoke chain, K Box, has members' personal information compromised earlier this week when the hacker group The Knowns' posted the data online. Up to 317,000 members' details could have been.
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Unnamed oil and gas company
September 17, 2014
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[ hack, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Bromium are alerted of a watering-hole attack originating from the website of a high-profile technology startup in the oil and gas sector.
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C&K Systems
September 17, 2014
C&K Systems admits that they had suffered a breach of point-of-sale systems tied to their Hosted Managed Services Environment. The incident is behind the credit card breach affecting Goodwill Industries and two other unnamed outsourced companies.
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Politica Estadao
September 15, 2014
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[ hack, malware ]
Sucuri reveals that a popular Brazilian newspaper, Politica Estadao, is hacked by attackers with a code able to attack readers' home routers.
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Jimmy John's
September 14, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Signature Systems Inc., the point-of-sale vendor blamed for a credit and debit card breach involving 216 Jimmy John's sandwich shop locations, says the breach also may have jeopardized customer card numbers at nearly 100 other independent restaurants.
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Satoshi Nakamoto
September 9, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
A hacker with the moniker of Jeffrey claims to have taken over the email account belonging to bitcoin's secretive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, saying he will sell Nakamoto's secrets for money.
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Pakistan Ministry of Interior
September 6, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Yet another cyber attack in Pakistan. Anonymous Pakistan defaces the official website of the Pakistan Ministry of Interior (interior.gov.pk).
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Azad Kashmir Government Portal
September 5, 2014
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[ hack, sqlinjection, government ]
The Pak Cyber Eaglez collective breaks into the online portal of the Azad Kashmir government (ajk.gov.pk), defaces some of the pages, and extracts the database with the login credentials.
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Bartell Hotels
September 3, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Bartell Hotels issues a notification that the payment card processing systems used at five of its San Diego locations were compromised and personal information, including credit card numbers, may be at risk. The potential number of affected customers is estimated to be between 40,000 and 45,000.
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Undisclosed industrial software company
September 2, 2014
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[ espionage, malware, technology ]
AlienVault reveals the details of Scanbox, a watering hole attack compromising the website of an industrial software company to collect information on the site's visitors.
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The Home Depot
September 2, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Home Depot confirms that thieves compromised the payment systems in its 2,200 stores in the US and Canada and stole credit and debit card data. Home Depot believes that 56 million credit cards were compromised by criminals.
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Justice Minister Judith Collins
September 1, 2014
A hacker known as RawShark (@whaledump) causes the resignation of New Zealand Justice Minister Judith Collins after releasing information showing a purported campaign to undermine government officials.
