Recent Breaches
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March 9, 2017 • Queensland School Photography emails students' parents to notify that payment card information has been compromised.
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March 2, 2017 • South Korea's Lotte Duty Free website (lottedfs.com) is taken down by a DDoS attack orchestrated from a Chinese IP.
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March 1, 2017 • The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of a Kennesaw State University server.
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February 27, 2017 • The Luxembourg government's servers are hit in a massive DDoS attack that lasts over 24 hours. The attack is believed to have affected over a hundred websites hosted by the government's servers.
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February 26, 2017 Crowdstrike reveals that some UK think tanks specializing in international security were hacked by China-based group 'Deep Panda' beginning in April 2017.
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February 26, 2017 • Hackers break into CCTV systems of at least four British schools and stream footage of pupils live on the internet. St. Mary's Catholic Academy and Christ The King Academy Primary School are two fo the victims.
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February 22, 2017 • Nearly one million Coachella accounts are reportedly currently up for sale on the dark web.
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February 19, 2017 • Kuroi'SH defaces the official website of Asiana Airlines, one of the major airlines in South Korea.
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February 17, 2017 • Lexington Medical Center notifies employees of a breach affecting its database.
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February 15, 2017 • The personal information of approximately 7,500 British Columbians may have been compromised through the provincial government's PharmaNet system, when an "unknown/unauthorized person obtained and used a physician's login to access PharmaNet."
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February 14, 2017 • Amnesty International reveals the details of Operation Kingphish: a campaign of cyberattacks mainly targeting activists and journalists in Qatar and Nepal. One of the named victims is the International Trade Union Confederation.
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February 14, 2017 • An unknown hacker steals user account information (3.3 million records) and alleged product source code from FunPlus, the company that makes highly popular free-to-play mobile game Family Farm Seaside.
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February 14, 2017 • French front-runner Emmanuel Macron calls for the European Union to stand firm against Russia as his French election campaign is targeted by computer hackers. The Kremlin denies any allegations.
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February 9, 2017 • The fast food restaurant chain Arby's has suffered a breach involving the payment card systems in up to 1,100 of its locations.
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February 8, 2017 • zerodark70 sells a database supposedly containing 83,000 compromised accounts from UPI.com, the website of the 110-year-old American news agency United Press International.
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February 8, 2017 A security breach at Alton Steel, Inc. has left its employees open to identity theft, and more than one employee has already this year had fraudulent tax returns filed in their name.
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February 7, 2017 • The National Treasury Management Agency temporarily suspends access to its website for several hours today after a suspected defacement attack.
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February 6, 2017 • Verity Health System has now issued a statement about a breach reported to HHS on January 11 as affecting 10,164 patients.
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February 5, 2017 • The Sunday Independent reveals that cybercriminals are hacking the email accounts of Irish solicitors in an attempt to steal tens of thousands of euro from unsuspecting home buyers.
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February 4, 2017 • A threat actor targeted the computer networks of the Norwegian government: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the army, a nuclear radiation protection agency, and a parliamentary group.