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Forbes
September 15, 2015
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Forbes is notified of a malvertising campaign on its website running from 8 to 15 September. The company states to have removed the offending ads.
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Cryptome
September 15, 2015
The creator of digital library and whistle-blowing site Cryptome.org, John Young, revokes his PGP key pairs after learning they were compromised.
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Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
September 10, 2015
Health insurance company Excellus declares that hackers broke into its servers and may have obtained the personal details of 10.5 million people. The information belongs to customers who lived in or sought treatment in the upstate New York area.
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Wayne County Board of Education
September 3, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
Hackers claiming to be part of Islamic State deface the Wayne County Board of Education website (boe.wayn.k12.wv.us).
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8chan
September 24, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Imgur, the photo-sharing website, is exploited in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the popular imageboards 4chan and 8chan.
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realtor
September 22, 2015
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[ hack, malware ]
Yet another high-profile website victim of a malvertising campaign. This time the target is realtor.com, a popular real estate website ranked third in its category with an estimated 28 million monthly visits.
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Embarcadero Media Group
September 18, 2015
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[ hack, ddos ]
An individual or group claiming to be the hacktivist collective Anonymous shuts down all websites operated by Embarcadero Media Group, which runs several community newspapers in the Bay Area.
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Ceph
September 18, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Red Hat reveals to have suffered an intrusion on the sites of both the Ceph community project (ceph.com) and Inktank (download.inktank.com) that resulted in signed code being accessed.
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http://asankadr
September 18, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
ElliotAlderson hacks asankadr.az and dumps 5,926 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences
September 16, 2015
The NetPirates hack the Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences (mimsindia.com) and dump 6,709 usernames and clear text passwords.
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Kumoh National Institute of Technology
September 13, 2015
A hacker called Kyfx hacks a subdomain of the Kumoh National Institute of Technology and dumps 1,448 usernames and clear text passwords.
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Dhaka University
September 11, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
The Dhaka University website is defaced by hacker called Cyber-71.
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Mohu
September 8, 2015
Consumer electronics company Mohu notifies approximately 2,500 customers that credit card information and other data was compromised during an attack on the www.gomohu.com website.
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http://www
September 4, 2015
Rubber AKA @smitt3nz hacks 9 dating websites in a row and dumps a total of 7,764 usernames and clear text passwords.
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Essex Police
September 4, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The same attacker who took down the Manchester Police earlier this month, also takes down the website of the Essex Police.
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http://www
September 3, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
Two hackers dubbed ConnectingFriend and KheXan rOot hack askmebazaar.com and dump 2,105 user records.
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Greater Manchester Police
September 3, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The website of Greater Manchester Police in the UK (gmp.police.uk) is hit by two DDoS attacks. A Twitter account going by the handle @n0w1337 claims responsibility for the attack.
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Emilio Aristegui
August 30, 2015
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Emilio Aristegui, the son of a prominent journalist. He was a minor at the time of the targeting.
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Michigan Catholic Conference
August 29, 2015
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[ hack ]
The Michigan Catholic Conference notifies more than 10,000 employees, that their personal information has been compromised by an unknown hacker who could also have obtained their personal information.
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mumsnet
August 27, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mumsnet is hit by a new wave of DDoS attacks.
