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• Warwick Rowers December 5, 2017 • [ hack, ddos, education ] The website of a naked charity calendar featuring male rowers at Warwick University is taken down by a DDoS attack after having allegedly offended Russia's "gay propaganda" laws.
• Netshoes December 5, 2017 Data of 17,908 customers of Brazilian retailer Netshoes is dumped on pastebin.
• Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine Minneapolis December 5, 2017 • [ ransomware, malware, healthcare ] Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine Minneapolis warns customers that, in the wake of a ransomware attack that occurred in October 2017, an unauthorized third-party may have breached the clinic's computer security and viewed or accessed patient information that was on the server.
• Baptist Health Louisville December 5, 2017 • [ social, phishing, healthcare ] Baptist Health Louisville notifies 880 patients of a phishing incident that occurred in early October.
• Brazil December 2, 2017 • [ leak, government ] The Anonymous leak some topology data belonging to Brazilian public sector.
• CoinPouch November 22, 2017 Hackers allegedly steal over $655,000 worth of Verge cryptocurrency from the CoinPouch wallet.
• Uber November 21, 2017 • [ hack, ransomware, technology ] Bloomberg reveals that hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber, a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year, after paying $100,000 to the attackers.
• Sacramento Regional Transit system November 19, 2017 • [ ransomware, malware, government ] The Sacramento Regional Transit system is hit by destructive ransomware, and the attackers threaten to do more damages if the SacRT doesn't pay them the equivalent of $8,000 in bitcoins.
• Melbourne International Shooting Club November 18, 2017 Police investigate the hacking of Melbourne International Shooting Club, a gun club database that may have exposed where more than 1500 semi-automatic handguns are stored. The breach happened in September.
• Montgomery County, IL November 17, 2017 • [ hack, malware, government ] The Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency reported that much of the county's computer system went down last week due to what it is calling a malware incident.
• Jewson November 14, 2017 • [ hack, malware, retail ] Builders merchant Jewson notifies 1,659 customers that their private information could have been exposed in a breach occurred late this summer. The breach happened after malicious code was implanted in the Jeson Direct website.
• Petro Rabigh December 14, 2017 Security firm FireEye and Schneider Electric SE reveal the details of a new operation targeting Triconex industrial safety technology widely used inside nuclear, oil and gas plants. The first victim is allegedly located in Saudi Arabia. The malware is dubbed "Triton". A June 2021 indictment charges Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh, an employee of a Russian Ministry of Defense research institute and his co-conspirators, over causing two separate emergency shutdowns at a foreign targeted facility after deploying the Triton/Trisis malware.
• Fox-IT December 14, 2017 Dutch security firm Fox-IT reveals to have fallen victim of a DNS Hijacking attack on September 19th 2017. The attacker modifies a DNS record for one particular server to point to a server in their possession and to intercept and forward the traffic to the original server that to Fox-IT.
• Bitfinex December 12, 2017 Bitfinex is forced to shut down its ongoing operations after suffering a series of non-stop DDoS attacks.
• Pinterest December 11, 2017 • [ hack, brute-force, technology ] Pinterest notifies users of suspicious activity due to attackers trying to compromise accounts using 'credential stuffing' (credentials obtained from other breaches).
• Road Sign near North Central Expressway in Dallas December 8, 2017 • [ hack, government ] A traffic sign near North Central Expressway in Dallas is hacked and defaced with an obscene message against the President of United States Donald Trump and his voters.
• Clarion University December 7, 2017 • [ social, phishing, education ] Clarion University employees are notified after two employees fall victim of a phishing attack.
• NiceHash December 6, 2017 Bitcoin mining platform and exchange NiceHash is hacked and forced to suspend the operations for 24 hours after cyber criminals make off with $68 million worth in BTC.
• Mad River Township Fire and EMS station December 4, 2017 • [ ransomware, malware, government ] Mad River Township Fire and EMS station has all its data encrypted by ransomware.
• Imgur November 23, 2017 • [ leak, technology ] Imgur is notified of a potential security breach that occurred in 2014 and affected the email addresses and passwords of 1.7 million user accounts.