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8tracks
June 27, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
Motherboard reveals that millions of accounts for internet radio service 8tracks are being traded on the digital underground. The total number of affected accounts could be as high as 18 million.
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UK Parliament
June 23, 2017
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[ hack, brute-force, government ]
Up to 90 email accounts are compromised amid a brute-force cyber-attack on UK Parliament.
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Illinois State Board of Elections
June 22, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
New details emerge about the alleged hacks before the 2016 elections. Ken Menzel, general counsel of the State Board of Elections, reveals that nearly 90,000 records containing personal information were accessed by Russian hackers, with 90 percent of those records containing some kind of personal information.
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Cleveland Medical Associates
June 22, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Cleveland Medical Associates reveals the details of a ransomware attack that happened on April 21, 2017.
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Undetermined
June 27, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
Threat actors deploy a tool, called NotPetya, with the purpose of encrypting data on victims' machines and rendering it unusable. The malware was spread through tax software that companies and individuals require for filing taxes in Ukraine and spread globally.'Australia, Estonia,'Denmark, Lithuania, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States issued statements attributing NotPetya to Russian state-sponsored actors.
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich's Website
June 25, 2017
Ohio Gov. John Kasich's website is hacked, appearing to show pro-ISIS propaganda. Ohio first lady Karen Kasich's website, along with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections website, are also hacked.
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Microsoft
June 23, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows 10 operating system builds and portions of its core source code (a total of 32TB) are leaked online.
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Airway Oxygen
June 22, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Airway Oxygen notifies that a ransomware attack in mid-April resulted in the compromise of data belonging to 550,000 customers and employees.
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Microsoft
June 22, 2017
British police announces to have arrested two suspects part of an international group that hacked into Microsoft's network.
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Election systems in 21 US states
June 21, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Jeanette Manfra of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), during her testimony before a Senate panel, reveals that Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 US states during last year's campaign.
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Col. Richard Downie
June 20, 2017
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor targeted individuals who were political critics and business rivals of Ricardo Martinelli, president of Panama between 2009 and 2014, for espionage purposes. The threat actor uses the Pegasus tool, created by the NSO Group. One of the victims is Col. Richard Downie (ret.), the former director of the Center for Hemispheric Studies at the National Defense University. He worked on the 2014 presidential campaign of Juan Carlos Navarro.
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Nayana
June 19, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
A South Korean Web-hosting service provider, Nayana, agrees to pay $1 million to a ransomware operation that encrypted data stored on 153 Linux servers and 3,400 customer websites via the Erebus ransomware.
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U.S. Electoral System
June 13, 2017
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[ espionage, government ]
New investigations reveal that Russia's cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump's election was far more widespread than publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported.
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Southern Oregon University
June 7, 2017
Southern Oregon University announces that it is the latest organization to fall victim to a business email compromise (BEC) attack after fraudsters tricked the educational establishment into transferring money into a bank account under their control.
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Hotels
June 3, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
Hotels.com sends an email to some customers advising that their username, password, email address, and the last four digits of stored credit card numbers were potentially stolen last month (between may 22 and 29).
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Good Choice (hotel reservation app)
June 1, 2017
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
Hackers suspected of breaching a popular South Korean mobile app and stealing the personal data of more than 990,000 are arrested by local police in Korea.
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Qnect
May 31, 2017
Qnect, a Sydney startup has its customer data stolen with the hackers threatening to publish the information unless bitcoins are paid out.
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Kmart
May 31, 2017
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
For the second time in less than three years, Kmart Stores suffers a malware-based security breach of its store credit card processing systems.
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Fast Health
May 28, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
Fast Health reports a security breach that could affect over 700 of their patients, when a third-party altered a code on their server, stealing the credit card information of close to 700 customers who paid bills online from January 14, 2016 to December 20, 2016.
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The Harvard Crimson
May 25, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
The website of Harvard's 144-year-old newspaper is defaced and posts fake stories and an altered picture of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who was visiting the institution).
