Recent Breaches
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October 26, 2015 • Der Spiegel reports that Regin, the highly sophisticated state sponsored malware, has been discovered infecting the laptop computer of a head of the German Unit of the Federal Chancellery.
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October 26, 2015 • Emergence Health Network(EHN) notifies 11,100 patients of an unauthorized access of a server containing protected health information.
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October 25, 2015 • The Lebanese branch of the Anonymous defaces several Lebanon government websites.
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October 25, 2015 • An anonymous hacker hacks amzreviewtrader.com and dumps nearly 2500 usernames and clear text passwords.
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October 24, 2015 • A collective affiliated with the Anonymous called Anonymous R4BIA Team takes down several Egyptian government websites including the Egyptian Presidency website, the Cabinet Decision Support Center (CDSC), the Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Planning, and others.
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October 20, 2015 • Another episode of the Cyber War between India and Pakistan: a group of Pakistani hackers dubbed Team Pak Cyber Experts defaces the official website of the Passport Office Kolkata (passportofficekolkata.in).
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October 16, 2015 • Yellowfront Grocery in Damariscotta, Maine, notifies its customers via Facebook that it had experienced a point-of-sale (POS) breach on Oct 23.
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October 16, 2015 • An undisclosed number of individuals are being notified that an attack may have compromised credit and debit cards used between October 2014 and February 2015 at the front desk of the Reno, Nevada-based Peppermill Resort Spa Casino.
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October 12, 2015 • Another charity store hacked: America's Thrift Stores, an organization that operates donations-based thrift stores throughout the southeast United States, says to have been the victim of a malware-driven security breach.
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October 8, 2015 • Two Brazilian hackers deface two government-owned domains. The target is the Brazilian Institute of Research and Development in Astronomy, Geophysics and Metrology of Time and Frequency, which has two of its domains defaced (intranet.on.br and euler.on.br).
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October 6, 2015 Th3 Ap3x from Anonsec hacks windsormed.org and dumps over 6000 records with student information.
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October 2, 2015 • Premium retailer David Jones says its website has been hacked and private customer data stolen.
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October 1, 2015 • Patreon, the website that allows people to maintain regular donations to a website, an artist, or project, announces to have suffered a security breach. The site says some registered names, e-mail addresses, and mailing addresses were accessed after someone managed to access a debug version of the site.
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September 30, 2015 • The Trump Hotel Collection acknowledges a malware infection across the United States and Canada, potentially stealing customer credit card data for an entire year. The list of hotels includes two locations in New York and one in each of the following cities: Chicago, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Toronto, and Miami.
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October 20, 2015 • A threat actor compromised government networks affiliated with members of the South Korean parliament. The threat actor, believed to be North Korea, also attempted to compromise the Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, and the Blue House.
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October 20, 2015 • And this is the example of a website hacked exploiting a Magento Vulnerability: a hacker dubbed ph1k3 hacks gobol.in and claims to have exploited a Magento vulnerability.
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October 18, 2015 A teen hacker with the nickname CWA claims to have hacked an AOL e-mail account belonging to John Brennan, the director of the CIA. The attacker claims to have obtained sensitive documents and releases a small spreadsheet with alleged personal information.
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October 18, 2015 • In the name of #OpKillingBay, the online protest against the dolphin slaughter, the Anonymous take down the two main Japanese Airports: Narita International Airport (www.narita-airport.jp) and Chubu Centrair International Airport (www.centrair.jp).
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October 15, 2015 • Bloomberg reveals that the web page of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague was comporomised with malware in July, during the the third day of the hearing on the territorial dispute in the South China. Suspects are directed to China.
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October 15, 2015 • An Islamist hacker called Abdellah Elmaghribi defaces Adult Magazine, an online blog about graduate students having sex.