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John Podesta's Twitter Account
October 13, 2016
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's Twitter account is hacked and sends out a pro-Trump tweet. Several screenshots also suggest that his phone could have been hacked.
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SWIFT
October 12, 2016
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[ financial, hack, malware ]
Symantec reveals that a second group of hackers are attempting to rob banks by targeting SWIFT users deploying the same methods that led to the Bangladesh Bank hacking heist. The tools used are linked to the Odinaff group, which since the beginning of the year, has targeted financial institutions worldwide.
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University of Toyama's Hydrogen Isotope Research Center
October 10, 2016
Research data and personal information may have been stolen from a personal computer belonging to a researcher of Tritium, at the University of Toyama's Hydrogen Isotope Research Center. Attackers stole data in three batches: December 2015, March 2016 and June 2016.
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Newsweek
September 30, 2016
Newsweek suspects that Russian hackers are to blame for the crash of its website, after it published an article about Donald Trump's company secretly conducting business in Cuba in the 1990s.
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Jive
September 29, 2016
Software house Jive resets customers passwords after the company discovered a data breach.
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WestPark Capital
September 27, 2016
The Dark Overlord leak around 20 internal files online from Los Angeles-based WestPark Capital, as retaliation for the bank's CEO not accepting their "handsome proposal".
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i-dressup
September 26, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Un unknown hacker downloads more than 2.2 million of improperly stored account credentials from i-dressup.com, a social hangout website for teenage girls.
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Unnamed Afghan mobile operator
September 23, 2016
Der Spiegel reveals that the Bundeswehr's (German Armed Forces) special cyber unit is believed to have conducted the nation's first known "offensive" cyber operation in 2015, when it hacked into the network of an Afghan mobile network provider.
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Ethereum
September 22, 2016
Ethereum, a public blockchain-based decentralised computing platform for the cryptocurrency Ether is targeted by a DDoS attack on its network, causing all mining activities to slow down.
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modaco
September 20, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Modaco.com, a UK-based forum dedicated to the Android operating system is breached, with nearly 800,000 usernames and passwords stolen by hackers. The attack dates back to January 2016.
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justformen[.]com
September 20, 2016
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
The website for Just For Men, a company that sells various products for men is compromised to serve malware to its visitors.
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Unknown Organization
September 18, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are knocked offline by yet another denial-of-service (DDoS) attack claimed by hacking group PoodleCorp.
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SS&C Technologies
September 16, 2016
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[ financial, social, phishing ]
SS&C Technologies, falls victim to China-based hackers who sent fake emails to company staffers in order to trick them into releasing client money, according to a complaint.
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Empireminecraft
September 14, 2016
Empireminecraft notifies its users of the compromise of one of the staff member's email account. As a result the attacker was able to access confidential information.
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Unknown Organization
September 9, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Popular science website EurekAlert!, which handles embargoed reports on health, medicine, and technology is hacked. The announcement in the website states that usernames and passwords to the service have been compromised. The hacker has also leaked two embargoed reports.
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Unknown Organization
September 7, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Servers belonging to the Project on Crowdsourced Imagery Analysis (PCIA), hosting data about nuclear tests, have been the subject of DDoS attacks just two days before North Korea's most recent nuclear tests.
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University of Alaska
September 6, 2016
University of Alaska officials announces that an attacker using employee credentials may have accessed student information of approximately 5,400 individuals.
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Ukrainian alleged pro-Russian Journalists
September 3, 2016
Myrotvorets, a group of Ukrainian nationalist hackers, leaks the personal details of local journalists they consider pro-Russian for the second time in four months.
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Linode
September 2, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Linode reports the first of a series of DoS attacks on September 2nd, September 4th and September 5th. Another round will strike the company on Saturday, September 10th. Some of the attacks lasted up to eight hours.
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Armenian National Security Service
September 2, 2016
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[ hack, leak, government ]
Azerbaijani hacktivists from Anti-Armenia Team leak the passport details of foreign visitors to Armenia and more after breaking into Armenian government servers.
