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Northrop Grumman
April 24, 2017
Northrop Grumman admits one of its internal portals was broken into, exposing employees' sensitive tax records to W-2 Scams.
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KCG Holdings
April 23, 2017
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[ insider, espionage, malware ]
The FBI arrests Zhengquan Zhang, a 31-year-old IT engineer, accused of installing malware on his employer's servers to steal proprietary source.
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Iowa Veterans Home
April 21, 2017
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[ social, phishing, government ]
Iowa Veterans Home warns nearly 3,000 of data breach after phishing incident.
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McAfee Linkedin Page
April 16, 2017
The LinkedIn page for McAfee is hijacked by a single person or an unknown number of individuals allegedly affiliated with the OurMine collective.
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Youku
April 12, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
A dark web vendor going by the handle of CosmicDark sells a database containing 100,759,591 user accounts stolen from of Youku Inc., a popular video service in China.
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Union Bank of India
April 11, 2017
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[ hack, finance ]
North Korean hackers are suspected of attempting to steal $170m from Union Bank of India, back in 2015.
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Amazon third-party sellers
April 10, 2017
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[ hack, phishing, retail ]
Amazon third-party sellers, are hit repeatedly by hackers who post fake deals on legitimate sellers' pages.
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Sirens in Dallas
April 8, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
A computer hack sets off all the emergency sirens in Dallas for about 90 minutes.
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University of Louisville
April 7, 2017
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[ hack, education ]
Tax information for dozens of University of Louisville employees is compromised after a hack of the online system the university uses to give employees access to tax documents.
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Wishbone App
March 15, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
Hackers steal 2.2 million email addresses and 287,000 cellphone numbers from popular teen quiz App Wishbone users, many of whom are young women under the age of 18.
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Dun & Bradstreet
March 15, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
A Dun & Bradstreet 52GB database containing about 33.6 million records with very specific details about each of the people involved from job title to email address is exposed.
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fifthharmony
March 12, 2017
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[ hack ]
A Kurdish hacker going by the online handle of "Rekan Error" defaces the official website of Fifth Harmony, an American girl group formed on the second season of The X Factor US in July 2012 and posts messages against ISIS and Turkey.
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Daytona State College
March 2, 2017
Daytona State College notifies staff of a potential W-2 incident.
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Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA)
February 27, 2017
The UK's largest travel trade organisation, the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) experiences a cyberattack on its website that puts 43,000 holidaymakers and travel agents at risk of identity theft.
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Roberts Hawaii
February 26, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
The tour company Roberts Hawaii warns its customers about a security breach that may have affected people who purchased tours and other services on its website between July 2015 and December 2016.
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Jorgie Porter
February 25, 2017
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[ leak ]
English actress and model Jorgie Porter is the latest victim of The Fappening hackers, who manage to steal her intimate pictures and videos and post them online.
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Inland Revenue Department
February 25, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Thousands of Inland Revenue files are locked up after New Zealand's tax department becomes the target of a Cryptolocker attack in November.
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Apple
February 23, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
A mid-2016 security incident led to Apple purging its data centers of servers built by Supermicro, including returning recently purchased systems, after malware-infected firmware was reportedly detected in an internal development environment of Apple's technical infrastructure, which powers its web-based services and holds customer data.
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secure2donaldjtrump
February 19, 2017
A hacked dubbed Pro_Mast3r defaces a server associated with President Donald Trump's presidential campaign donations.
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Family Service Rochester
February 18, 2017
Family Services Rochester notifies individuals that portions of its computer systems that contained personal information have been compromised by ransomware.
