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Catholic Charities
October 27, 2017
The personal information of about 4,600 past and present clients and several employees of Catholic Charities may have been exposed after a computer server in the Glens Falls office was hacked as early as 2015.
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blog
October 26, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Two hackers going by the online handle of "n3tr1x" and "str0ng" deface the official blog (blog.jquery.com) of jQuery.
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Tarte Cosmetics
October 25, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
Tarte Cosmetics exposes nearly two million customers' personal data to the public via two unsecured MongoDB databases. Unfortunately the gang Cru3lty get hold of the data, demanding 0.2 Bitcoins for recovering the database once the data had been deleted or encrypted.
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FirstHealth
October 20, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The network of FirstHealth is hit by WannaCry and forced to suspend operations.
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Domino's Pizza
October 19, 2017
Domino's Australia investigates a potential breach of its computer systems after a number of customers received personalised spam emails from the pizza company. The company claims the breach happened to a "secondary supplier".
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Microsoft
October 17, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
According to five former employees, Microsoft Corp's secret internal database for tracking bugs in its own software was broken into by a highly sophisticated hacking group more than four years ago.
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London Bridge Plastic Surgery (LBPS)
October 17, 2017
The Dark Overlord hackers break into London Bridge Plastic Surgery, a high profile, London-based plastic surgeon, and steal photos, including in-progress genitalia and breast enhancement.
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Victory Phones
October 11, 2017
Victory Phones, a phone polling firm is hacked, exposing several database files, one of which totaled 223 gigabytes in size and amounted to about two billion lines. The data was stolen in January.
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Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)
October 11, 2017
Australia's foreign intelligence collection agency, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), says a hacker stole over 30 GB of data on the country's military capabilities, including details on fighter jets, military aircraft, and naval ships.
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Forever 21
November 14, 2017
Fashion retailer Forever 21 discloses a breach due to an unauthorized access to data from payment cards used at certain of its stores.
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Mix Megapol
November 10, 2017
A private radio station in Sweden, Mix Megapol, suffers a cyber attack when someone hacks its transmission to play a pro-ISIS song for 30 minutes.
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Sia
November 6, 2017
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[ leak ]
And Australian singer SIA, having heard of her nude photos possibly being leaked, prevents the fappening, by posting herself personal naked photos.
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SchoolDesk
November 6, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Hackers from Team System Dz deface hundreds of websites across the US to post pro-ISIS messages, images of Saddam Hussein and a recruitment video. SchoolDesk, the Atlanta, Georgia-based web hosting company servicing these sites, confirmed the attack.
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Aviva
October 25, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
According to the security group RedLock, a group of hackers managed to breach Amazon Web Services belonging to two companies on the Amazon Cloud: Aviva and Gemalto. The breach was due to poor password policy and aimed to use the resources to mine cryptocurrency.
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Basetools.ws
October 24, 2017
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[ ransomware, technology ]
A hacker dubbed Mat AKA @0xScripts breaches Basetools.ws, an underground forum and demands a $50K ransom to avoid sharing stolen data with law enforcement.
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Appleby
October 24, 2017
Appleby, a Bermuda law firm, admits to have been hacked, prompting fears of a Panama Papers-style expos into the tax affairs of the super rich.
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Politifact
October 13, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website devoted to checking the factual accuracy of US politicians' words, appears to have been hacked so that it secretly mines cryptocurrency in visitors' browsers via CoinHive.
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Joseann 'JoJo' Offerman
November 5, 2017
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[ leak ]
And Joseann 'JoJo' Offerman is the third WWE Diva who suffers nude photo leaked.
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NIC Asia Bank
November 4, 2017
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[ financial, hack, malware ]
NIC Asia Bank, based in Kathmandu, suffers a hack on its computer networks, which abused the SWIFT financial messaging system to help steal approximately $4.4m
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Crunchyroll
November 4, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Crunchyroll.com is the victim of a DNS hijack attack, so the visitors are redirected to a malicious website designed to infect them with malware.
