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Midland Memorial Hospital
December 12, 2017
Midland Memorial Hospital announces a data security incident involving a limited number of patients' personal information after an unauthorized third party may have obtained access to an employee's e-mail account on or about Oct. 10.
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Perth Airport
December 10, 2017
A Vietnamese man, Le Duc Hoang Hai, is arrested for stealing sensitive security details and building plans from Perth Airport after breaking into its computer systems. The hack happened in March last year, and was carried on using the credentials of a third-party contractor.
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Sinai Health System
December 7, 2017
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
At least two employees at Sinai Health System had their email accounts compromised in a phishing incident, potentially affecting the information of 11,350 people.
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Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
December 6, 2017
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[ financial, healthcare ]
Police launch an investigation after 817 people report fraud attempts following a breach of the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) web store occurred on November 16th.
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Warwick Rowers
December 5, 2017
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[ 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.
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Netshoes
December 5, 2017
Data of 17,908 customers of Brazilian retailer Netshoes is dumped on pastebin.
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Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine Minneapolis
December 5, 2017
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[ 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.
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Baptist Health Louisville
December 5, 2017
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Baptist Health Louisville notifies 880 patients of a phishing incident that occurred in early October.
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Brazil
December 2, 2017
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[ leak, government ]
The Anonymous leak some topology data belonging to Brazilian public sector.
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CoinPouch
November 22, 2017
Hackers allegedly steal over $655,000 worth of Verge cryptocurrency from the CoinPouch wallet.
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Uber
November 21, 2017
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[ 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.
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Sacramento Regional Transit system
November 19, 2017
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[ 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.
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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.
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Montgomery County, IL
November 17, 2017
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[ 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.
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Jewson
November 14, 2017
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[ 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.
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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.
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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.
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Bitfinex
December 12, 2017
Bitfinex is forced to shut down its ongoing operations after suffering a series of non-stop DDoS attacks.
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Pinterest
December 11, 2017
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[ 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).
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Road Sign near North Central Expressway in Dallas
December 8, 2017
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[ 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.
