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Canadian government
July 25, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Hackers from the Anonymous collective say they breached supposedly secure Canadian government computers and accessed high-level, classified national security documents as retaliation for last week's fatal shooting by the RCMP of a protester in British Columbia. To support their claim, they publish a document that appears to be legitimate Treasury Board of Canada notes on federal cabinet funding to fix flaws in the foreign stations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
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Healthfirst
July 24, 2015
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[ leak, healthcare ]
New York-based Healthfirst notifies about 5,300 current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised in a criminal fraud scheme.
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BitDefender
July 24, 2015
A hacker called DetoxRansome hacks BitDefender and blackmails the company, demanding a ransom of $15,000 and threatening to release the stolen usernames and passwords (allegedly kept in clear) in case the ransom is not paid.
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CoinCut
July 23, 2015
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[ leak, finance ]
UK bitcoin exchange CoinCut is investigating a possible data breach which exposed sensitive customer information including passport and card data to the public.
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captain69
July 19, 2015
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[ leak ]
@ElSurveillance continues his battle against websites that promote escorts. This time the target is captain69.co.uk and the leaked records are about 2600.
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UniCredit
July 16, 2015
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[ hack, malware, finance ]
Cyphort Labs discovered a malware infection at the Ukrainian website of UniCredit bank: unicredit.ua.
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Pakistani Presidential Website
July 15, 2015
Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain's website (presidentofpakistan.gov.pk) is defaced by a group of Bangladeshi hackers called Blacksmith Hacker's Team. Inside the same operation, 72 other Pakistani government websites are defaced as well.
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Epic Games
July 15, 2015
Epic, the well known developer of video games, notifies the users of its forum (forum.epicgames.com) of an authorized access to their personal data (username, password, email and date of birth).
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Chris Foome
July 15, 2015
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[ hack ]
Team Sky are consulting their lawyers following what they believe to be the potential hacking of Chris Froome's training data files in order to suggest he may be using performance enhancing drugs during Tour De France.
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Insurance Services Office
July 14, 2015
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[ hack, finance ]
New Jersey-based Insurance Services Office (ISO) notifies an undisclosed number of consumers of an unauthorized access to the database.
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Voat
July 13, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Voat, the news aggregator, is taken down by a DDoS attack.
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Malaysian Police
July 13, 2015
The AnonGhost collective takes over the Facebook and Twitter Accounts of the Malaysian Police and floods the feed with pro-ISIS messages.
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Miami University
July 12, 2015
cybervor aka @cyberv0r claims to have hacked the Miami University and dumps over 200 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Antrix Corporation
July 12, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Indian space agency ISRO's commercial arm Antrix, has its website defaced. Suspects are thought to be Chinese hackers.
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Charlotte Mckinney
July 10, 2015
Unknown hackers hack the Charlotte Mckinney Instagram account and use it to post nude photos of the model.
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Argonne National Laboratory
July 9, 2015
The Cyber Islamic State hackers deface a subdomain of Illinois-based Argonne National Laboratory owned and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
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furydown
July 21, 2015
A hacker dubbed FireHack dumps furydown.com (a DDoS tool) and dumps 3000 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Ashley Madison
July 19, 2015
Ashley Madison, an online dating website that specifically targets people looking to have an affair, is hacked by a group that calls itself Impact Team. The authors of the attack threaten to release the entire database of 37 million users.
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MeetMeInYourCity
July 18, 2015
@ElSurveillance starts his personal battle against websites that promote escorts, defacing MeetMeInYourCity.com and leaking 2500 usernames and clear text passwords.
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AFC Kredieten
July 17, 2015
Hacker collective Rex Mundi claims to have stolen 24,000 financial records from Belgian loan company AFC Kredieten, and threatens to publish every loan applicant record in its possession if the company does not pay up a ransom. As proof that they have successfully hacked the company, Rex Mundi publishes some personal accounts and leaves a banner notification on the AFC Kredieten website.
