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Prison-issued tablets
July 26, 2018
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[ hack, financial, government ]
Idaho prison officials announce in a press release that they've identified 364 inmates who have exploited a vulnerability in their prison-issued tablets and have used it to assign nearly $225,000 worth of digital credits to their tablet accounts.
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Securities Investors Association Singapore (SIAS)
July 25, 2018
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[ leak, finance ]
The Securities Investors Association Singapore (SIAS) announces to have suffered a breach. The breach occurred in 2013 and that the NRIC numbers, home addresses, email addresses, mobile and landline numbers of 70,000 people were compromised in the incident.
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City of Medford
July 25, 2018
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[ leak, malware, government ]
1,842 Medford residents are impacted by a City of Medford data breach after the city's online utility billing service is infected with malware. The breaches happened between February 18th through March 14th and March 29th through April 16th.
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U.S. Utility Control Rooms
July 23, 2018
Homeland Security Officials reveal that attackers from the malicious actor Dragonfly AKA Energetic Bear might have accessed the control rooms of U.S. Energetic Utilities.
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MedSpring Urgent Care
July 20, 2018
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
MedSpring Urgent Care notifies 13,000 patients after a phishing attack occurred on May 8.
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Adhoc
July 18, 2018
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[ hack ]
The website of Adhoc, a Cambodian rights group, is defaced.
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Ubisoft
July 17, 2018
Video game publisher Ubisoft suffers a series of massive DDoS attacks. As a result, several Ubisoft gaming servers face connectivity issues.
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LabCorp
July 16, 2018
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[ hack, healthcare ]
LabCorp, the US' biggest blood testing laboratories network, announces that hackers breached its IT network over the weekend.
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League of Legends Philippines'
July 15, 2018
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
League of Legends Philippines' confirms an unauthorized modification in their client lobby code resulting in the injection of the Coinhive Monero miner.
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Facebook
September 27, 2018
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Facebook says a breach affected 50 million people on the social network. The vulnerability stemmed from the "view as" feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to others. Attackers exploited code associated with the feature that allowed them to steal "access tokens" that could be used to take over people's accounts.
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NewsNow
September 25, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
Online news aggregation service NewsNow admits that it has suffered a security breach and an encrypted version of the passwords may have been accessed.
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Groopdealz
September 14, 2018
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
Groopdealz joins the list of the victims of the Magecart group.
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Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific (FDIP)
September 13, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Honolulu-based Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific (FDIP) announces to have been hit by a ransomware attack that may have compromised patient data.
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City of Tyler
September 11, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
The city of Tyler is the latest victim of the Click2Gov payment system breach.
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U.S. Department of State
September 7, 2018
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[ leak, government ]
The State Department suffers a breach of its unclassified email system, and the compromise exposes the personal information of a small number of employees.
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British Airways
September 6, 2018
British Airways notifies authorities, after being hacked between August 21 and September 5, with 380,000 payments compromised.
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Boa Vista SCPC
September 4, 2018
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[ hack, finance ]
Brazilian credit bureau Boa Vista SCPC investigates a possible hack, after a group of hackers called Fatal Error claimed it accessed the database of the company which has more than 350M personal data.
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EscortReviews
September 1, 2018
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
An online community promoting female escorts and reviews of their services has suffered a data breach after a hacker downloaded the site's database. The site ran vBulletin 3.8.9, which has known vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to breach the site. It is unknown if the forum was hacked using one of these vulnerabilities or if the site left an unsecured backup of the database online.
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Patria Bank
August 30, 2018
Researchers from NetScout Arbor reveal the details of a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt Group via spear phishing. One of the targets is Patria Bank.
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University of Missouri
August 29, 2018
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[ social, phishing, education ]
The University of Missouri suspends email delivery after a Missouri State Democratic Party email seeking interns helps jumpstart a phishing attempt.
