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Healthcare
October 19, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announces that Healthcare.gov, the federally operated health insurance marketplace, has suffered a data breach. The CMS believes files for as many as 75,000 people were accessed.
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Catawba Valley Medical Center
October 19, 2018
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Catawba Valley Medical Center notifies patients of a phishing email incident occurred on August 13, 2018.
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Indiana National Guard
October 18, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Indiana National Guard reports that a non-military server that contains the personal information of civilian and military personnel is hit with ransomware.
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Vesta Control Panel (VestaCP)
October 17, 2018
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Vesta Control Panel, the provider of an open-source hosting panel software reveals a security breach during which an unknown hacker contaminated the project's source code with malware. The malicious code was added on May 31, this year, and later removed two weeks later, on June 13.
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Facepunch
October 17, 2018
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[ leak, technology ]
As reported by Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned breach notification service, the Facepunch game studio was the victim of a data breach in June 2016 which led to sensitive information of 396,650 users being exposed.
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City of Muscatine
October 17, 2018
The City of Muscatine is hit with a ransomware attack on October 17. Financial and other servers are affected.
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Madison County Government Services
October 7, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A ransomware attack hits Madison County Government services.
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Cancer Research UK
October 7, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
The Magecart gang hit the Cancer Research UK back in 2016 with the same modus operandi.
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Anne Arundel County Public Library
October 6, 2018
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[ hack, malware, education ]
Anne Arundel County Public Library officials announce that nearly 600 staff and public library computers have been hit by the Emotet virus. 4,768 customers who used public computers since September 17 are also notified.
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North American Risk Services
October 5, 2018
North American Risk Services, suffers a data breach between February 7 and March 27, when the company notices suspicious emails being sent from one of their employee's accounts.
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey
October 5, 2018
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Odyssey's launch is disrupted by a DDoS attack on the day of its release.
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US Department of Defense
October 4, 2018
Roughly 30,000 DOD military and civilian personnel are believed to be affected by a cyber attack. A third-party contractor is compromised, granting the attackers access to the Pentagon network to steal travel data for DOD personnel.
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Tillamook Chiropractic Clinic
October 4, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Tillamook Chiropractic Clinic reveals that on May 2016, malware was installed on the primary insurance billing system, which hackers then used as a staging area to collect patient records.
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Square Enix
October 4, 2018
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The same day Square Enix also announces to be fighting off a DDoS attack aimed towards its popular game, Final Fantasy XIV.
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Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport
October 4, 2018
A threat actor compromised the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport. Seven of the individuals alleged to be behind this incident, believed to be Russian military intelligence (known as GRU), were indictedby the U.S. Justice Department. Canada issued a statement attributing the incident to Russian military intelligence.
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US Banks
October 2, 2018
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[ financial, malware, finance ]
A joint technical alert from the DHS, the FBI, and the Treasury warns about a new ATM cash-out scheme, dubbed "FASTCash," used by the Hidden Cobra APT.
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City of Regina
October 2, 2018
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[ hack, phishing, government ]
A city of Regina email is hacked, and used as a phishing tool to try and get passwords and emails from other city of Regina staff as well as external groups.
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Virat Kohli's official website
September 29, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
Following the defeat of the Bangladeshi cricket team against India at the 2018 Asia Cup final, a group of Bangladeshi hackers defaces Virat Kohli's official website (the current captain of India's team) to protest against an 'unfair decision' during the match.
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Burgerville
September 30, 2018
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[ financial, retail ]
Burgerville reveals a data breach impacting the chain which may have led to the theft of detailed credit card information belonging to customers.
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Chegg
September 25, 2018
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[ leak, education ]
Educational technology company Chegg resets the passwords for 40 million of its users after news broke that the firm was breached in April of this year.
