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Morehead Memorial Hospital
September 15, 2017
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Morehead Memorial says that a data breach due to a phishing attack has potentially exposed patient and employee information.
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Road Sign in Modesto
September 10, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
An electronic road sign in the city of Modesto, California is hacked and defaced with a message against President Donald Trump.
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Schuyler County Sheriff's Department
September 8, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Schuyler County Sheriff's Department is disrupted by a hacking attack.
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cpjobs
September 5, 2017
Online jobs platform cpjobs.com reports an unauthorised third-party attack on the website, compromising the security of user data. Impacted pages are shut down and all users' passwords are deactivated.
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Julia Kloeckner Website
September 4, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Julia Kloeckner, a top leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party says her website has been hit by thousands of cyber attacks -- many from Russian IP addresses -- ahead of the television election debate between Merkel and her opponent, Social Democratic leader Martin Schulz.
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Purdue University Pharmacy
September 1, 2017
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Patients of the Purdue University Pharmacy and the Family Health Clinic of Carroll County receive notices that their information might be compromised because of a security breach. A malicious file was installed on some computers on September 1st.
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Hand Rehabilitation Specialists
September 1, 2017
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[ hack, healthcare ]
Hand Rehabilitation Specialists notifies patients of a possible hack by The Dark Overlord that occurred back in July.
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Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants
August 31, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants, reports a ransomware attack that affected 19,203 patients.
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Instagram
August 31, 2017
Instagram reveals that one or more hackers have been stealing celebrities' e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information by exploiting a bug. A database, Doxagram, is published online immediately after with the attacker claiming to have stolen 6 million records.
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Free Online File Converter
August 31, 2017
An anonymous researcher reveals that the server hosting dozens of free-to-use online file conversion websites, including combinepdf.com, imagetopdf.com, jpg2pdf.com, pdftoimage.com, pdfcompressor.com, and wordtojpeg.com, has been hacked several times in the past year.
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dms[.]nwcg[.]gov
August 30, 2017
Ankit Anubhav of NewSky Security discovers a U.S. government website hosting a malicious JavaScript downloader, leading victims to installations of Cerber ransomware.
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Selena Gomez Instagram account
August 28, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
Selena Gomez's Instagram account is hacked and posts several nude photos of Justin Bieber.
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HIDS4U
August 25, 2017
UK firm HIDS4U, warns customers to be wary of phishing emails after it came to light that a database of customers was found on a hacked website.
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Crystal Finance Millennium
August 23, 2017
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[ hack, malware, finance ]
Hackers breach the servers of Crystal Finance Millennium (CFM), another Ukraine company that makes accounting software for local businesses, sparking fear of a new global cyberattack.
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Scottish Parliament
August 15, 2017
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[ hack, brute-force, government ]
Officials reveal that the Scottish Parliament has been targeted by a "brute force" cyber attack. The attack, from "external sources", was similar to that which affected Westminster in June.
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Blizzard Entertainment
August 15, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The web servers of Blizzard Entertainment suffer a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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Steve Weichert Twitter Account
August 7, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Steve Weichert, a politician running for District 17's State Senate Seat in the 2018 election reveals that his Twitter account has been hacked. The alleged attackers post pornographic content.
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Kaleida Health
August 1, 2017
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Kaleida Health notifies 2,789 patients about a phishing incident that happened on May 24.
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Central German state of Saxony-Anhalt
August 31, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Internet and telephone networks at the regional parliament in the central German state of Saxony-Anhalt are offline after a ransomware attack.
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NHS Lanarkshire
August 29, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
NHS services in Lanarkshire (Scotland) are hit by a new ransomware campaign. The culprit is identified as a new variant of Bitpaymer ransomware.
