Recent Breaches
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March 1, 2018 • The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), an industry forum for sharing data about critical cybersecurity threats facing the banking and finance industries, reveals that a successful phishing attack on one of its employees was used to launch additional phishing attacks against FS-ISAC members.
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March 1, 2018 • For the second time in two weeks, the computers at the Colorado Department of Transportation Agency shut down 2,000 computers after a ransomware infection.
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February 27, 2018 • FastHealth reveals that in mid-August 2017, an unauthorized party gained access to their web server and obtained patient data.
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February 24, 2018 • Personal and financial information of current and former employees of Wallace Community College Selma is leaked through a phishing scam.
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February 24, 2018 • Students at Teesside University are warned about a possible email security breach and urged to reset their university password.
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February 22, 2018 • Dozens of current and former employees and students of the University of Alaska are unable to access their Alaska.edu accounts. According to the investigation, user passwords have been changed by a third party.
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February 22, 2018 • The Italian elections are approaching, so Hacktivists from the collective LulzSecITA hack the blog of Matteo Salvini, the leader of right-wind Italian party "La Lega" and dump 70,000 emails.
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February 21, 2018 • ASCD is the victim of a W-2 scam.
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February 20, 2018 • CDOT is hit with a ransomware attack, attributed to SamSam, which forces the organization to shut down 2,000 computers.
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February 20, 2018 Troy Mursch, a security researcher at Bad Packets Report, finds cryptojacking code hidden (based on Coinhive) on the Los Angeles Times' interactive Homicide Report webpage.
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February 20, 2018 • The HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website is hacked and approximately 685,000 user profiles are affected. A senior moderator's account has been compromised by an unidentified hacker, and used to access the user profiles since September 2017.
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March 15, 2018 • The shipping company Svitzer suffers a significant data breach affecting almost half its Australian employees when three employees have had emails auto-forwarded in the past 11 months.
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March 14, 2018 • Several news reports surface of the suspected hacking of player accounts of popular video game Fortnite, with some gamers apparently faced with large credit card charges from fraudulent purchases.
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March 13, 2018 • The Port of Longview is hit by a cyber attack that may have affected hundreds of past and current employees and dozens of vendors.
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March 8, 2018 • Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's Senate campaign tells the FBI in a letter that it fears it was hacked.
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March 8, 2018 • According to local reports in the Netherlands, hackers manage to breach the surveillance camera system in a dressing room of a sauna hosting the women handball team, and post the recordings on adult websites last December.
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March 7, 2018 • The Pinelands Regional School District is hit by the Emotet malware.
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March 5, 2018 • Few days after GitHub suffered a massive 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack, Arbor Networks unveil the details of a new record DDoS attack that clocked at 1.7 Tbps. The attack was aimed at a yet-to-be-identified "US service provider."
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March 2, 2018 • St. Peter's Surgery & Endoscopy Center reveal that hackers potentially compromised medical records of about 135,000 patients earlier this year.
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March 1, 2018 • An email phishing scheme causes several Rockdale ISD employees' taxes to be falsely filed and compromises confidential tax information for all employees.