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The University of New South Wales
September 4, 2015
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), one of Australia's top universities has images of a porn star and other inappropriate content shared on its Facebook page.
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UK National Crime Agency
September 1, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Lizard Squad takes down the official website of UK's National Crime Agency (nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk).
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GitHub
August 25, 2015
Code repository Github is the victim of a massive DDoS attack. The site is likely targeted because of software projects hosted on the site that have allowed Chinese Internet users to bypass the Great Firewall's packet filtering and inspection tools.
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DressCloud
September 24, 2015
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[ hack, retail ]
The NetPirates hack dresscloud.pl and dump 5,269 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists
September 21, 2015
APEGA, the body that regulates engineers and geologists in Alberta reports a "significant data breach" when all the names and email addresses of its 75,000 members are given to an unknown party as a result of a phishing event.
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Oakland Family Services
September 16, 2015
Oakland Family Services, reveals the details of a security breach that could have affected 16,000 clients in the area. An unknown person gained access to the email account of an employee in July, which resulted in the potential viewing of protected health information.
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Milestone Hospitality Management
September 15, 2015
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[ financial, malware, hospitality ]
Milestone Hospitality Management notifies an undisclosed number of guests who stayed at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg/Hershey that malware may have compromised their credit card information.
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The Pentagon
September 8, 2015
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[ hack, financial, government ]
Hackers infiltrated the Pentagon food court's computer system, compromising the bank data of an unknown number of employees.
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Mozilla Bugzilla
September 4, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
Mozilla reveals that an attacker stole security-sensitive vulnerability information from the Mozilla's Bugzilla bug tracking system and probably used it to attack Firefox users. The attacker may have had access since September 2013.
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Manchester Airport
September 3, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the same wave of attacks, the same attacker also claims responsibility for taking down the website of Manchester Airport (manchesterairport.co.uk).
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Hawaii First Federal Credit Union
September 3, 2015
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[ social, phishing, finance ]
Hawaii First Federal Credit Union notifies an undisclosed number of customers that an unauthorized individual may have gained access to an employee's email account, and could have accessed personal information.
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Brunswick Hotel & Tavern
September 1, 2015
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[ financial, malware ]
Olympia Hotel Management, which manages Maine-based Brunswick Hotel & Tavern, notifies an undisclosed number of guests that malware was discovered on the hotel's computer systems and payment card information could be at risk (2,600 guests were impacted).
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Marion Bowman
August 31, 2015
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[ espionage, hack ]
Marion Bowman, a top former FBI lawyer and U.S. counterintelligence official, reveals that alleged Chinese hackers penetrated his home computer last spring.
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Utah Food Bank
August 29, 2015
Utah Food Bank notifies the donors of an access into its website by an unauthorized individual who could have gained access to personal data of more than 10,000 donors.
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http://www
August 28, 2015
NetPirates AKA @TheNetShip hack ecaytrade.com and dump about 50K usernames and hashed passwords.
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UK National Health Service
August 26, 2015
www.secamblive.nhs.uk, a UK National Health Service (NHS) site on which the organisation posts patients' stories describing their experience with illness is defaced by Moroccanwolf, as an act of protest regarding Western governments' lack of humanitarian actions in Syria.
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Hilton Hotel
September 25, 2015
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[ financial, malware, hospitality ]
Multiple sources in the banking industry say they have traced a pattern of credit card fraud that suggests hackers have compromised point-of-sale registers in gift shops and restaurants at a large number of Hilton Hotel and franchise properties across the United States.
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Mexican Lawyer
September 25, 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 David Pe, a lawyer who represents the families of the victims of the 2015 Narvarte killings.
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Philippines' National Telecom Commission
September 22, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
The website of the Philippines' National Telecom Commission (NTC), ntc.gov.ph, is defaced by the local branch of the Anonymous in a form of protest against the slow local Internet connection speed.
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Monopoly (hacking crew)
September 19, 2015
The w0rm hacking crew, operators of a forum of the same name, have attacked a rival gang, Monopoly, and offer the database of their rivals for sale on their forum.
