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University of New Mexico
September 1, 2016
Over 1,000 former students and employees of UNM have their identity stolen from a University database. After a month of silence, UNM establishes a call center to assist victims of the incident.
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swimming
August 11, 2016
Swimming.org.au, the Swimming Australia's website is hit by a DDoS attack in the wake of Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton's comments about his Chinese competitor Sun Yang being a drug cheat.
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Shiseido Co.
December 2, 2016
Japanese cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. says that the online store run by subsidiary IPSA Co. has suffered illegal access and that personal information on about 420,000 customers may have leaked as a result.
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Deutsche Telekom
November 29, 2016
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers are knocked off the internet when their routers are hit by a malware attack launched through the Mirai Botnet exploiting a SOAP Remote Execution Vulnerability.
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Japanese Defence Ministry
November 28, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kyodo News reveals that the network of the Japanese Defence Ministry was the target of a cyber-attack in September this year.
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Valartis Bank
November 27, 2016
Hackers are blackmailing the customers of Valartis Bank, a Liechtenstein bank, asking victims to send 10% of their funds to a Bitcoin address or have their bank accounts details exposed online.
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careers.kna.kw (official website of the Kuwaiti parliament)
November 26, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
The official website of the Kuwaiti parliament is defaced by hackers on their parliamentary election day. The hackers deface the main page leaving a message in Arabic accusing Abdul Hamid Dashti, a member of parliament (MP) of being an Iranian agent and urged other MPs to unite against him.
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Vascular Surgical Associates
November 24, 2016
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[ hack, healthcare ]
Vascular Surgical Associates notifies patients of a hack discovered in September when a compromised vendor password was used to access an internal computer.
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Madison Square Garden
November 22, 2016
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[ hack, financial, retail ]
Madison Square Garden Co. admits that hackers may have stolen payment card data at Madison Square Garden, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Beacon Theatre and The Chicago Theatre from Nov. 9, 2015 to Oct. 24, 2016.
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Atlantis, Paradise Island
November 21, 2016
Atlantis, Paradise Island announces a recent security incident that may have compromised the security of payment information between March 9, 2016 and October 22, 2016.
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Eastern Indian Regional Council
November 20, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy breaks into the Eastern Indian Regional Council and accesses the data of 17,000 students.
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Mega
November 18, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
The Amn3s1a Team hacking group releases a data dump containing what the group claims is nearly 2GB of source code stolen from several Mega.nz servers.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest account
November 17, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
OurMine hack Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest Account and post a message suggesting they could help him with his online security.
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Unknown Organization
November 17, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The Canadian army's public recruitment website (forces.ca) is hacked and briefly redirects visitors to the official website of the Chinese government.
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Windham County Sheriff's Office
November 12, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
CyberZeist announces that the Windham County Sheriff's Office has been hacked, and dumps the entire database with 300 records of personnel.
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YouTube account of Theo Ogden
November 8, 2016
In a cyber-attack coordinated by an alleged jealous teenager, the YouTube account of Theo Ogden (a popular video channel with 200 videos, 20,000 subscribers and 1.6 million views), is deleted permanently.
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Business Insider
November 2, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
The collective called OurMine post and edited some stories on the US version of the website.
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City of Duluth
October 31, 2016
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[ social, phishing, government ]
More than 55,000 Duluth residents receive letters informing them that voter registration lists and other personal information may have been exposed as a result of an email phishing attack at city hall.
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converse
October 28, 2016
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[ financial, malware, manufacturing ]
Converse reveals that the company's Australian e-commerce site was intercepting payment details for website visitors that made purchases between Sept. 2 and Oct. 12 of this year.
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Pakistan Government Officials
October 21, 2016
Forcepoint reveals the details of BITTER, a cyber espionage campaign targeting Pakistani government officials.
