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Neopets
May 5, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Tens of millions of user accounts from virtual pets community Neopets are hacked and traded on the criminal underground.
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Equifax
May 5, 2016
Unknown individuals access Equifax's W2Express website and steal tax and salary data.
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Bay Area Children's Association
May 5, 2016
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Bay Area Children's Association reports that an attacker compromised patient information after planting malware on the systems of its electronic medical record provider.
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Alpha Payroll Services
May 2, 2016
Alpha Payroll Services notifies that an employee has fallen victim of a phishing scam targeting clients' 2015 employee W-2 information.
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70 US military staff
May 2, 2016
A group claiming to be British hackers supporting the Islamic State (ISIS) publishes a 'hit list' of more than 70 US military staff who have allegedly been involved in drone strikes against terrorists in Syria.
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Gryphon Technologies
April 30, 2016
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[ social, phishing, technology ]
Gryphon Technologies joins the list of the companies falling victim to W-2 phishing scams.
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Black Lives Matter
April 30, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Ghost Squad, one of the Anonymous subdivisions carrying out DDoS attacks against KKK members, launch similar attacks against the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Maisto
April 29, 2016
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[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
The website belonging to Maisto International, a popular maker of remote-controlled toy vehicles, is caught pushing ransomware.
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RWE Gundremmingen plant
April 26, 2016
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[ hack, malware, energy ]
A nuclear power plant in Germany is found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet.
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Lifeboat Minecraft Community
April 26, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Over seven million user accounts belonging to members of Minecraft community "Lifeboat" are hacked.
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The Grand Sierra Resort
April 25, 2016
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
The Grand Sierra Resort is the latest hospitality entity to disclose a data breach involving customers' credit card information. In this case, there appear to be two time frames during which cards used at their food and retail locations may have been compromised; for a one-month period in 2014 and again during a 5-month period in 2015.
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Qatar National Bank
April 25, 2016
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[ leak, finance ]
Documents purporting to be from the Qatar National Bank are leaked on a file-sharing site Cryptome.org. According to Cryptome, the leaked file contains more than 15,000 documents detailing more than 100,000 accounts with passwords and PINs.
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Ku Klux Klan
April 24, 2016
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[ hack, ddos ]
Hackers from Ghost Squad take down the website of Ku Klux Klan.
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Besa Hitman-for-Hire Service
April 23, 2016
bRpsd hacks the Dark Web portal of the Albanian mafia group called Besa, and dumps the data online, exposing their hitman-for-hire service.
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Unknown Organization
April 22, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Members of the New World Hackers (NWH), one of Anonymous' divisions, launch a DDoS attack against the city of Denver's website (denvergov.org)
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Ain Shams University
April 19, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker hacks the Staff Management Portal of the Ain Shams University (staff.asu.edu.eg) and dumps 2,280 records.
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Robert Millard
April 18, 2016
Robert Millard, a former Lehman Brothers executive wires a $2 million deposit for a $20 million Manhattan apartment to cyber criminals, who hacked the mailbox of his realtor.
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Newark Police Department
April 18, 2016
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[ hack, malware, government ]
The Newark Police Department is forced to spend four days cleaning up after a virus attack.
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Janet
April 15, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, education ]
British government-funded educational network Janet is hit by a DDoS.
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Innovak International
April 15, 2016
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[ leak, finance ]
14 school systems, 3 in Alabama and 11 in Mississippi are impacted by a breach to Innovak International involving employees' W-2 statements.
