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Russian Federation Drug Control Service
December 16, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Cryptolulz666 was just testing his own botnet, then later he targeted the website of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service liquidation commission. The Russian website was down for several hours.
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Undisclosed Ukrainian banks
December 15, 2016
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[ hack, malware, finance ]
ESET reports that BlackEnergy, the same group who targeted Ukrainian utilities last December has been using the TeleBots malware against Ukrainian banks in the last month.
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Embassy of Russia in Armenia
December 14, 2016
Cryptolulz666 breaks into the database of the website of the Russian Embassy of Armenia (embassyru.am) and leaks the corresponding data.
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Vijay Mallya
December 9, 2016
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya's Twitter account appears to have been hacked. The alleged hackers hijack Mallya's account and are currently leaking the industrialist's personal and sensitive information.
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Etana Habte
December 9, 2016
A threat actor targeted Ethiopian dissidents for the purpose of espionage, using commercially available spyware sold by Cyberbit, an Israel-based company. Most notably, the actor targeted the Oromia Media Network and some individuals associated with it.
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Kagoya
December 8, 2016
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[ financial, hack, technology ]
Kagoya, a famous hosting service provider in Japan suffers a security breach in which the personal and financial data of its customers is stolen. In an email to their customers, Kagoya states that the attack affected about 50,000 customers who used their credit cards between April 1, 2015 and September 21, 2016.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
December 6, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School reveals that a database containing Social Security numbers and name pairs od 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-'06 was hacked last month.
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Laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal
January 17, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
The Korea Times reveals the details of an attempt made by oversea attackers to hack into a laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal.
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Barts Health Trust
January 16, 2017
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[ hack, healthcare ]
Barts health trust, which runs five hospitals in east London: the Royal London, St Bartholomew's, Whipps Cross, Mile End and Newham, is hit by a cyberattack.
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IHOP (International House of Pancakes)
January 15, 2017
IHOP Twitter account (@IHOP) is hacked and posts a political tweet against Hillary Clinton.
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gdc.gob.ve
January 14, 2017
In a form of protest against President Nicolas Maduro, Kapustkiy hacks a website of a local government and dumps around 900 records on pastebin.
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General Motors
January 12, 2017
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[ leak, manufacturing ]
Reports come out claiming that GM employees' names and social security numbers might have been exposed during a breach.
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Thai governmental job portal
January 10, 2017
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[ hack, leak, government ]
The Anonymous kick off another run of #OpSingleGateway and take down multiple governmental job portals, leaking personal and sensitive details of officials and job seekers.
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Unknown Organization
January 10, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Susan M. Hughes Center notifies of a ransomware incident affecting 11,400 patients.
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esguarnacpuntademata.mil.ve
January 6, 2017
One of the websites belonging to Venezuela's ministry of defense (esguarnacpuntademata.mil.ve) is hacked by Kapustkiy in protest of what the attacker described as the dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro in the country. The attacker leaks 2,100 accounts.
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Northside Independent School District
January 4, 2017
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[ hack, phishing, education ]
The Northside Independent School District sends letters to about 23,000 former and current students and employees regarding a security breach that might have put their personal information at risk after several employees' email accounts have been compromised.
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google
January 4, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Kuroi'SH hjacks the DNS record of google.com.br and redirects the users to a defaced page.
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Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission
January 2, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
A group claiming to be part of the Anonymous collective defaces the Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission website (humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au) with a nonsensical message about its social network AnonPlus.
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Topps
December 30, 2016
Topps, the maker of iconic collectable trading cards reveals that hackers could have stolen customers' credit and debit card numbers along with their associated security codes in a recent breach.
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PakWheels
December 30, 2016
PakWheels, a famous automotive website in Pakistan reveals that their server was breached by an unknown third party exposing personal data of potentially 674,775 registered users. The breach happened in October 2016 exploiting a known vulnerability in the outdated vBulletin forum software.
