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Caddo Parish School System
January 8, 2019
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[ financial, phishing, education ]
The Caddo Parish School System is scammed out of nearly $1 million in tax payer money after a phishing attack.
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OXO International
January 7, 2019
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[ financial, malware, manufacturing ]
OXO International discloses a data breach that spans numerous periods over two years. Customer and payment information may have been exposed. The attack was most likely a MageCart attack.
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Resort Municipality of Whistler
January 5, 2019
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[ hack, government ]
The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is reporting that its municipal website, whistler.ca, has been breached.
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Queensland EWN
January 5, 2019
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[ hack, malware, government ]
A hacker gains unauthorized access to the Queensland EWN, or Early Warning Network, and used it to send a spam alert via SMS, landline, and email to the company's subscribers.
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Luas
January 3, 2019
The website of the tram operator Luas is taken down after a cyber attack. The author threatens to dump the records of about 3,000 if the ransom of 1 BTC ($3,843 worth) is not paid.
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BlankMediaGames (BMG)
January 2, 2019
BlankMediaGames (BMG) admits that a hacker has stolen the personal details of 7.6 million users of browser-based game the "Town of Salem".
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Victorian government
January 1, 2019
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[ leak, phishing, government ]
The work details of 30,000 Victorian public servants have been stolen in a data breach, after part of the Victorian Government directory was downloaded by an unknown party after an employee's email account is compromised.
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Lloyds of London
December 31, 2018
TheDarkOverlord announces it had breached a law firm handling cases related to the 9/11 attacks, and threatens to release the internal files unless their ransom demands were met. The group claims theu have hacked several insurers and legal firms including Hiscox Syndicates Ltd, Lloyds of London, and Silverstein Properties. To provide evidence, the group publishes the link to a 10GB archive.
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North Gyeongsang resettlement centre
December 28, 2018
Almost 1,000 North Korean defectors have their personal data leaked after a computer at the North Gyeongsang resettlement centre is hacked.
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Pinoy Weekly
December 26, 2018
The news sites of Bulatlat, Kodao and Pinoy Weekly are taken down by a DDoS attack, after stories on the Communist Party of the Philippines' 50th anniversary were posted.
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San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD)
December 21, 2018
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[ social, phishing, education ]
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) reveals that PII of more than a half million students and staff were compromised as the result of a phishing attack that may have occurred as early as January 2018.
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DrBenLynch
December 20, 2018
DrBenLynch.com notifies customers of payment card compromise after detecting a code injection into their web site that captured order information placed between September 8 and October 2.
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Caribou Coffee
December 20, 2018
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
US coffee store chain Caribou Coffee announces a security breach after it discovered unauthorized access of its POS systems. The breach was discovered on November 28, and the company listed 239 stores of its total 603 locations as impacted.
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The Wellcome Trust
December 19, 2018
The Wellcome Trust reveals in its annual report, that the email of four senior executives was compromised and sensitive information monitored for several months.
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Kvant Scientific Research Institute
December 19, 2018
The Digital Revolution group claims to have hacked the servers of Moscow-based Kvant Scientific Research Institute, and gathered evidence of a neural networks tool used to analyze activities on social networks.
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NASA
December 18, 2018
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[ leak, government ]
NASA alerts its employees of a possible compromise of NASA servers containing personally identifiable information. The breach was discovered on October 23, and affects NASA Civil Service employees from July 2006 through October 2018.
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Barnes-Jewish Company HealthCare
December 18, 2018
At least 5,850 people are alerted about a possible breach of credit card information through Barnes-Jewish Company HealthCare's online payment portal. The breach was discovered on Nov. 19 and involved the injection of malicious code into their website.
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The Wall Street Journal's website
December 17, 2018
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
The Wall Street Journal's website is defaced with a post containing a fake apology supporting YouTube megastar PewDiePie, previously accused of antisemitism by the same paper.
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Contractors working for the US Navy
December 14, 2018
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[ espionage, government ]
According to a new report, classified military information including missile plans have been stolen from contractors working for the US Navy by hackers linked to China.
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French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
December 13, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
The personal information of 540,563 individuals is stolen from an emergency contact database after the website of the French Ministry of Europe, and Foreign Affairs is hacked.
