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Government of Venezuela website
August 7, 2017
A hacking collective called The Binary Guardians defaces roughly 40 Venezuelan websites including those of the government, the Supreme Court and the legislature.
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Surgical Dermatology Group
August 6, 2017
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Surgical Dermatology Group notifies patients after its cloud hosting and server management provider TekLinks discovers a security breach dating back to March 23, 2017.
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Chinese Telecom Firm
August 1, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Kaspersky Lab Q2 2017 DDoS Intelligence Report reveals the details of a DDoS attack launched against a Chinese Telecom Firm, lasting for 11 days.
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Big Screen in Cardiff's Queen Street
August 1, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
A big screen in Cardiff's main shopping street, Queen Street, is reportedly hacked with images of swastikas and messages about 'Shariah' appearing.
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Mandiant
July 31, 2017
A Mandiant threat intelligence analyst is the victim of Operation #LeakTheAnalyst. Attackers infiltrate his computer for more than a year and leak some internal data.
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Google
September 1, 2017
The Google Cloud team revealed a previously undisclosed DDoS attack that targeted Google service back in September 2017 and which clocked at 2.54 Tbps, making it the largest DDoS attack recorded to date.
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WikiLeaks
August 31, 2017
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[ hack ]
WikiLeaks' website appears to have been hacked by the OurMine collective.
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CeX
August 29, 2017
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[ hack, retail ]
Second-hand electronics dealership CeX notifies 2 million customers that their personal information may have been compromised by hackers.
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Zazzle
August 28, 2017
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[ hack, brute-force, retail ]
Zazzle sends an email to customers revealing that hackers in June used brute-force techniques to cycle through account usernames and passwords that were stolen from a breach of another unnamed site.
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LG
August 21, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
Global consumer electronics manufacturer LG confirms it had to shut down some parts of its network after systems fell victim to WannaCry ransomware. Ransomware is also found on an LG self-service kiosk in South Korea.
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Enigma Blockchain Project
August 21, 2017
Another attack exploiting an Initial Coin Offering. As much as $500,000 in ether is stolen from supporters of the Enigma blockchain project following a security compromise. Attackers are able to take control of the project's website domain, one of the administrator accounts on its Slack channel and its mailing lists.
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National Health Service
August 18, 2017
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[ hack, healthcare ]
A member of the Anonymous hacking collective claims to have stolen data belonging to 1.2 million patients of the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). The breach affected SwiftQueue, a software provider of dashboard and metrics solutions to healthcare providers.
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22 GOP Senators
August 18, 2017
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[ leak, government ]
Hacktivist collective Anonymous reportedly leaks the private contact details of 22 GOP senators, in the wake of the Charlottesville violence and US President Donald Trump's controversial response to the event, asking for Trump's impeachment.
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FireEye
August 14, 2017
A group of hackers called 31337 leaks a second dump of data allegedly stolen from security company FireEye.
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Development Foundation of Armenia
August 7, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Turkish hackers continue to target Armenian websites. The list of the targets involved in the latest spree of attacks includes the official website of the Development Foundation of Armenia and the official website of the Civil Service Council of Armenia.
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Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL)
July 31, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
The author of the BrickerBot malware claims responsibility for a cyber-attack that took place in various Indian states and causes over 60,000 modems and routers to lose Internet connectivity.
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Wix
July 31, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Website-building service Wix.com reveals to have been the subject of a massive cyber-attack in April 2016 when a botnet of rogue Chrome extensions was creating Wix websites to spread itself to new users.
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UniCredit
July 26, 2017
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[ hack, finance ]
UniCredit SpA, Italy's No. 1 bank, says that hackers took biographical and loan data from 400,000 client accounts. The attack occurred in September and October of 2016 and June and July of this year.
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Kansas Department of Commerce
July 20, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
A security breach in the Kansas Department of Commerce exposes millions of Social Security numbers from people across 10 states to hackers. Many other accounts are also attacked.
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South Carolina's Voter Registration System
July 16, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
According to a post-election report by the South Carolina State Election Commission, South Carolina's voter registration system was reportedly hit by almost 150,000 hack attempts on Election Day 2016.
