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Variety
September 3, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Entertainment news site Variety is briefly taken over by the infamous hacker group OurMine. The hacking collective manages to break into Variety's content management system and defaces the site with a post of their own claiming responsibility for the attack.
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Lightspeed
September 2, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Point of sales vendor Lightspeed is breached with password, customer data, and API keys possibly exposed, and notifies customers in an email saying that the information was contained in a compromised database.
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Transmission BitTorrent Client
September 1, 2016
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Developers of the Transmission BitTorrent client admitted that hackers replaced downloads of its file-sharing software with trojanized code. The hack, detected within hours, was designed to spread a Mac OS X backdoor, Kidnap, which steals user credentials.
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Last
September 1, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
More than 43 million of user records from UK-based music streaming service Last.fm surfaced from a hack that occurred in 2012. Each record reportedly contains a username, email address, hashed password and profile data.
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arg.gov.af
September 1, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Hacktivist group Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) defaced 12 websites belonging to the Afghan government.
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2 Hong Kong government agencies
September 1, 2016
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[ espionage, government ]
Security company FireEye reveals that two Hong Kong government agencies have come under attack from cyberspies originating in China in the month leading up to Sunday's legislative elections.
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National Institute of Health
August 21, 2016
In name of #OpSafePharma, the Italian hacktivists hack four healthcare organizations and leak data from two. The hackers attacked the MEDUSA public portal of the National Institute of Health, the Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria clinic, the clinic of the University of Naples Federico II, and the ASL TO2 state clinic in Torino.
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The Equation Group
August 16, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
An anonymous group calling itself Shadow Brokers publishes what it claims are sophisticated software tools belonging to an elite team of hackers tied to the US National Security Agency known as "The Equation Group".
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Yulia Stepanova's WADA Account
August 13, 2016
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that hackers appear to have accessed the online account of Russian athletics doping whistleblower Yulia Stepanova.
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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
August 12, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
Guccifer 2.0 leaks a fresh batch of documents, memos and passwords, this time from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). They include a spreadsheet of congressional contacts' phone numbers and email addresses, internal memos and what purports to be documents stolen from the computer of Nancy Pelosi.
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World Anti-Doping Agency
August 12, 2016
A collective associated with the Polish branch of the Anonymous hacks the servers of the World Anti-Doping Agency and Court of Arbitration for Sport (tas-cas.org) and dumps a 412MB file which contains 3,121 unique email accounts along with their passwords.
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LinkedIn
August 11, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A new lawsuit reveals that data thieves used a massive botnet against LinkedIn to steal members' personal information via information scraping by fake profiles.
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Anderson County
August 10, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Anderson County government officials and the sheriff's office investigate a possible computer security breach (a "potential system-wide breach" of the main courthouse server) involving 1,800 people.
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An Garda (Irish Police)
August 4, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Police in Ireland launch a probe after a hacker attempted to break into their computer network, forcing officials to temporarily shut down several of their systems to ensure the security of data held on staff and the public.
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Romelu Lukaku's Instagram Account
August 3, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Romelu Lukaku, the Everton footballer is the latest celebrity to have his Instagram account hacked.
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Mukhtar Ablyazov's family
August 2, 2016
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[ espionage, government ]
Threat actors believed to be tied to the Kazakh government have targeted lawyers and exiled Kazakh dissidents for the purpose of espionage. The victims include members of dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov's family.
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Iranian Telegram users
August 2, 2016
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[ espionage, hack, leak ]
Iranian hackers linked to the state sponsored group called Rocket Kitten have compromised more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users.
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Astolfo di Amato
August 2, 2016
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[ espionage, government ]
Threat actors believed to be tied to the Kazakh government have targeted lawyers and exiled Kazakh dissidents for the purpose of espionage. One of the victimis is Astolfo di Amato, an Italian attorney who spearheaded anti-corruption litigation against Kazakhstan.
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Alexander Petrushov
August 2, 2016
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[ espionage, government ]
Threat actors believed to be tied to the Kazakh government have targeted lawyers and exiled Kazakh dissidents for the purpose of espionage. One of the victimis is Alexander Petrushov, a publisher of an independent Kazakh newspaper.
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Unknown Organization
August 1, 2016
UK debt relief charity Christians Against Poverty notifies supporters following a data breach that exposed personal details including phone and bank account numbers, and banking sort codes. Unidentified hackers broke into the charity's systems in late July.
