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Lancaster tornado emergency sirens
March 12, 2019
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[ hack, government ]
A hacker sets off the tornado emergency sirens for the cities of DeSoto and Lancaster.
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Grinnell College
March 11, 2019
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[ ransomware, education ]
Students at three elite colleges Hamilton, Grinnell, and Oberlin are delivered ransom notes and informed by the hackers that they have gained access to their students' application files.
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Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital
March 6, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Nearly 4,800 patients at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital are notified of the ransomware attack to Wolverine Solutions.
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Health Alliance Plan
March 6, 2019
Health Alliance Plan notifies more than 120,000 patients of Wolverine Solutions Group breach.
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Citrix
March 6, 2019
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[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
FBI informs Citrix of a data breach that appears to have begun with a 'password spraying' attack aimed to steal weak credentials to access the company's network.
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University of Hawaii
March 5, 2019
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[ espionage, education ]
Chinese hackers targeted twenty-seven universities in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia as part of a scheme to steal research about maritime technology under development for military use. Among the victimis is the University of Hawaii.
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Pennsylvania State University
March 5, 2019
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[ espionage, hack, education ]
Chinese hackers targeted twenty-seven universities in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia as part of a scheme to steal research about maritime technology under development for military use. Among the victimis is Pennsylvania State University.
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Bharatiya Janata Party
March 5, 2019
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[ hack, government ]
The official website of India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is down after reports it was hacked.
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Embassy Bangladesh in Egypt
February 27, 2019
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[ hack, malware, government ]
Researchers from Trustwave reveal that the web site for the Bangladeshi Embassy in Cairo has been compromised so that it distributes malicious Word documents, which install malware downloaders onto an infected computer.
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UConn Health
February 22, 2019
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[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
UConn Health discloses that an unauthorized third party had accessed employee email accounts, potentially breaching the privacy of 326,000 patients and others.
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UK Labour Party
February 21, 2019
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[ insider, misconfiguration, government ]
The UK's Labour Party locks down access to membership databases and campaign tools after a number of attempts to access personal data on its systems by "individuals who are not, or are no longer, authorized to do so".
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Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane
February 18, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane is the victim of a ransomware attack affecting 400,000 patients.
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Chester County
February 18, 2019
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[ hack, malware, government ]
Chester County is hit by a malware attack.
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CHI Health
February 15, 2019
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
CHI Health officials reveal that a device brought in by a third-party vendor introduced a malware into the health system's network.
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Reserve Bank of India
February 14, 2019
Reserve Bank of India warns banks and payment system operators about a mobile application called 'AnyDesk' used by fraudsters to access data on mobile devices.
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Newsquest Media Group
February 28, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
Several websites belonging to Newsquest Media Group, the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom, are apparently defaced.
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Wolverine Solutions Group (WSG)
February 27, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Wolverine Solutions Group (WSG) says that it discovered its systems had suffered a ransomware infection on September 25 last year. More than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients are affected.
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Topps
February 27, 2019
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Sports trading card and collectible company Topps issues a data breach notification stating that it was affected by a Magecart attack, which possibly exposed the payment and address information of its customers.
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Pompano Beach
February 23, 2019
Pompano Beach is the latest municipality to warn its residents (4,000 people) of the Click2Gov breach.
