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Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD)
June 14, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD) posts a notice for a suspected security breach related to the on-line purchase of licenses and tags from the Department.
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Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
June 14, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous Africa takes down the websites of EFF and ZANU-PF, two black nationalist political parties in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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Unknown Organization
June 12, 2016
In what looks like an act of revenge from an ex-student or staff (still unclear) the server of Greenwich University is breached and completely leaked online.
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IRS
June 27, 2016
The IRS announces that it has removed its electronic filing PIN tool (e-File PIN), following "additional questionable activity."
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Unnamed healthcare organization in the Central/Midwest US
June 26, 2016
A hacker called TheDarkOverlord advertises hundreds of thousands of alleged records from healthcare organizations on a dark web marketplace, including social security and insurance policy numbers.
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South Yorkshire Police
June 26, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Two Albanian hackers deface the South Yorkshire Police website.
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lookbook.nu
June 26, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
Login data of Lookbook's 1.1 million users is available on the darknet for sale.
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Carbonite
June 23, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Online backup service Carbonite forces users to pick new passwords in the wake of discovering that it was under a large-scale account takeover attack.
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Air India
June 23, 2016
India's national airline, Air India, is the target of a hacking campaign exploiting members of the airline's frequent-flyer program to make away with air miles.
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The DAO
June 21, 2016
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[ hack, finance ]
Unknown attackers attack the DAO foundation and steal more than 3.6 million Ethereum (whose value is between $45 and $77 million).
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Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ)
June 19, 2016
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[ espionage, misconfiguration, government ]
The Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) fixes a security issue in their video conferencing software that allowed an unknown hacker to spy on their meetings and even access the video camera.
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Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website
June 17, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
The Union of Hacktivists defaces the Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website.
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Ricardo Anaya Corts
June 15, 2016
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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 Ricardo Anaya Cort s, the president of the opposition National Action Party (PAN).
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Fidelity National Information Services (FIS Global)
June 15, 2016
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[ hack, finance ]
1x0123, the same hacker who previously claimed to have hacked PornHub, claims to have hacked the client portal of Fidelity National Information Services.
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US government
June 14, 2016
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
Palo Alto Networks reveals the details of a cyberespionage group called Sofacy, which has launched a fresh attack against the US government, using a "new persistence mechanism" designed to help evade detection.
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Unnamed Chinese gambling site
June 14, 2016
Incapsula reveals the details of a 470 Gbps DDoS attack on an unnamed gambling website.
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GitHub
June 14, 2016
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[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Someone using what appears to have been a list of e-mail addresses and passwords obtained from the breach of "other online services" makes a massive number of login attempts to GitHub's repository service.
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Democratic National Committee
June 14, 2016
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[ espionage, government ]
Russian government hackers penetrate the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gain access to the entire database, dumping a 231-page document purporting to be opposition research into Donald Trump.
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South African Broadcasting Corporation
June 12, 2016
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the country's official state news broadcaster, confirms that it suffered a wave of cyberattacks orchestrated by a hacktivist aligned with the Anonymous collective.
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Petra News Agency
June 12, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Jordan's official state news agency has claimed a hacker is responsible for breaching its computer system to insert false comments into a story describing how Saudi Arabia royalty funded 20% of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
