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Sooke School District
May 31, 2018
The Sooke School District warns parents about a privacy invasion after an employee's email was hacked.
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Ticketfly
May 30, 2018
The Ticketfly website is defaced with an image of V from the film V for Vendetta. Unfortunately, after refusing to pay a 1 BTC ransom, Ticketfly reveals that the personal information of 27 million accounts, including ticket buyers and venue operators, was compromised.
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Taylor Cryptocurrency
May 28, 2018
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[ financial, hack, finance ]
The creators of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app claim that an unidentified hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the company's wallets.
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Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
May 28, 2018
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[ leak, finance ]
Also the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), the country's fifth largest bank is affected by the same incident, and they believe that 40,000 users could be possibly affected from its subsidiary Simplii Financial.
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Bank of Montreal
May 28, 2018
Bank of Montreal, the country's fourth bank, announces to have been contacted by fraudsters claiming to have stolen personal and financial information of a limited number of the bank's customers. According to the bank, less than 50,000 c customers are affected.
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Goliath and Goliath
May 27, 2018
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[ financial, social, phishing ]
Comedy and entertainment agency Goliath and Goliath suffered a loss of more than 300,000 ZAR (22,000 USD worth) in what appears to be a phishing scam.
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Arlo
May 26, 2018
Arlo advises its customers to change their passwords after credential-stuffing attempts detected.
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Mashhad airport
May 24, 2018
Hackers deface the screens at the Mashhad airport in Iran to protest against the government and the military's activities in the Middle East. The hackers also took control of the email account of the Mashhad airport civil aviation head, Mohsen Eidizadeh to spread the news of the hack.
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Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology
May 24, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology notifies 6,546 patients and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of a ransomware incident that occurred in March.
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University of Vermont
May 23, 2018
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[ hack, education ]
University of Vermont officials say they have no reason to believe the personal information of 37,000 current and former faculty, staff and students fell into the wrong hands following an intrusion of the school's computer systems.
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Tidal
May 18, 2018
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[ hack ]
Jay-Z's Tidal streaming platform announces to have enlisted an "independent, third party cyber-security firm" to investigate a possible data breach, after reports of inflated subscriber and streaming numbers.
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Bitcoin Gold
May 18, 2018
An unidentified hacker performs several "double spend" attacks on the infrastructure of the Bitcoin Gold cryptocurrency and manages to amass over $18 million worth of BTG (Bitcoin Gold) coins in the process.
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HealthEquity
June 14, 2018
About 23,000 accounts are compromised by a data breach that took place at HealthEquity in April when an employee fell for a phishing scam.
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Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
June 12, 2018
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[ financial, government ]
An audit reveals that a scammer stole nearly $94,000 in public funds from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center last year.
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Coinrail
June 11, 2018
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[ hack, financial, finance ]
Coinrail, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, says that its systems have been hacked. It is believed that hackers stole about 40 billion won (US$37.2 million) worth of cryptocurrency from Coinrail, including 21 billion won worth of Pundi X and 14.9 billion won worth of Aston.
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US Navy Contractor
June 8, 2018
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[ espionage, hack, government ]
Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing 600+ Gb of highly sensitive data related to undersea warfare, including secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines by 2020, accordding to American officials.
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Afghan diplomats in Pakistan
May 26, 2018
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[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Afghan diplomats in Pakistan are warned they are believed to be victims of "government-backed" digital attacks trying to steal their email passwords.
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Oxnard City
May 25, 2018
Oxnard city officials are contacted by a bank representative about fraudulent purchases being made with the cards people used to pay their utility bills.
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Manuel Delia's Blog
May 20, 2018
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Manuel Delia's blog (a Maltese journalist and blogger) is the target of a DDoS attack. Apparently the attack comes from Ukraine.
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University of Buffalo
May 18, 2018
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[ hack, education ]
University of Buffalo confirms to be investigating and responding to a breach of 2,690 UBITName accounts.
