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YMCA of Central Florida
November 22, 2017
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[ leak ]
The YMCA of Central Florida (YMCA) announces it is notifying individuals related to an isolated security incident involving certain personal information.
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Single individual's Bitcoin wallet
November 22, 2017
Austrian police say cyber-thieves transferred bitcoin worth more than 100,000 ($117,000) from a man's account while he was logged in on a restaurant's public WiFi network.
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Xinmin Secondary School
November 18, 2017
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[ leak, education ]
Xinmin Secondary School is discovered to have been breached when names and identity card numbers of its students have been leaked on pastebin.
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Islamic State
November 18, 2017
A group of Iraqi hackers called Daeshgram places pornographic images into the terror group's communication networks in order to undermine ISIS credibility.
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Algerie Telecom
November 17, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Algerian state telecom operator Algerie Telecom is hit by a prolonged DDoS attack.
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John Kahlbetzer
December 14, 2017
John Kahlbetzer, one of Australia's richest men suffers a $1m loss after his assistant is taken in by a classic Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam.
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Anderson Cooper's Twitter account (@andersoncooper)
December 13, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
CNN says Anderson Cooper's Twitter account was hacked after a since-removed tweet from his handle called the president a "tool" and a "pathetic loser" following Democrat Doug Jones win in Alabama's Senate election.
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Rose McGowan
December 11, 2017
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[ leak, hack ]
Another round of "The Fappening". Hackers leak alleged nude pics and sex tape of "Charmed" star Rose McGowan.
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Israel
December 8, 2017
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[ leak, hack, government ]
In name of #OpIsrael and #OpUSA, hacktivists from the Anonymous Collective leak online names, emails, and passwords of Israeli public employees and share a list of US government sites to target, calling on action against them.
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Village of Nashotah
December 7, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Village of Nashotah pays an unidentified hacker a $2,000 ransom to decrypt its computer system after a hack in late November.
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Henry Ford Health System
December 6, 2017
Roughly 18,500 patients at Henry Ford Health System have possibly had their personal information stolen in a data breach occurred in early October after the email credentials of a group of employees were stolen.
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Mecklenburg County
December 4, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Mecklenburg County, which includes the city of Charlotte and surrounding areas, is hit with ransomware and struggles to get its systems back online ever since. In the meantime, county officials are forced to revert to paper systems.
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Tenafly High School
December 1, 2017
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[ insider, misconfiguration, education ]
Tenafly High School informs parents that a student has gained access to its internal IT systems, changed grades to improve his GPA, and sent out college applications immediately after.
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Siemens
November 27, 2017
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[ espionage, hack, manufacturing ]
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted three members of Boyusec, a China-based internet security firm, on charges including conspiring to commit computer fraud and abuse and conspiring to commit trade-secret theft. The victims included Moody's Analytics, Siemens, and Trimble. Though not mentioned in the indictment, Boyusec is believed to work on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security and be a front for APT3.
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Bulletproof Coffee
November 27, 2017
Bulletproof Coffee, the company behind the trendy energy-boosting, butter-infused java, says it has suffered a data breach, compromising the personal and financial details of its customers. The company discovered "unauthorised computer code" added to the software that operates the checkout page on its website.
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Loake Shoes
November 22, 2017
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[ hack, retail ]
Loake Shoes warns its customers to have been the victim of a cyber attack. Apparently the email server has been compromised even if no other details are disclosed.
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Bitcoin Gold
November 22, 2017
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[ financial, phishing, finance ]
More than $3.3 million worth of Cryptocurrency is stolen as part of an elaborate scam that took advantage of bitcoin users seeking to claim their share of the newly created cryptocurrency Bitcoin Gold.
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Tether
November 19, 2017
Tether, a start-up known for offering dollar-backed cryptocurrency, announces that hackers have breached their security and stole a whopping $30 million worth of tokens. The breach took place on 19th November 2017.
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J. Sterling Morton school district
November 15, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
An in-development home made ransomware named J. Sterling Ransomware is discovered. This ransomware strain targets the high school students of the J. Sterling Morton school district in Cicero, Illinois by pretending to be a student survey.
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Osaka University
December 13, 2017
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[ hack, education ]
Osaka University says that personal data of around 80,000 students, graduates, staff, former workers and others may have been stolen by hackers.
