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Pixlr
October 7, 2020
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[ leak, technology ]
In October 2020, the online photo editing application Pixlr suffered a data breach exposing 1.9 million subscribers. Impacted data included names, email addresses, social media profiles, the country signed up from and passwords stored as SHA-512 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Ardonagh Group
October 6, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
Jersey-headquartered insurance company Ardonagh Group has suffered a potential ransomware infection.
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University Hospital Limerick
October 6, 2020
University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is in the process of sending letters to over 600 patients following an alleged major data breach concerning patient data, including details of 95 children, which was then posted on social media. It is believed that the data was extracted by a third-party employee without authorization.
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Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL)
October 6, 2020
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[ hack, education ]
The Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL) of the University of Mumbai postpones the exams after a cyber attack.
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About 20 cryptocurrency executives in Israel
October 6, 2020
About 20 cryptocurrency executives in Israel have their phones hacked and their online identity stolen in a SS7 attack.
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Boom! Mobile
October 6, 2020
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[ financial, malware, technology ]
Credit card skimming group Fullz House has compromised and injected the website of US mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Boom! Mobile with a credit card stealer script.
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Unknown Organization
October 5, 2020
1111, a Taiwanese online job site, has allegedly been hacked by Chinese hackers.
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Heartland Community College
October 5, 2020
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[ hack, education ]
Heartland Community College is working with outside consultants after detecting that an outside source had compromised some of its systems.
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Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams
October 5, 2020
The WhatsApp account of South Africa's Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams is hacked, resulting in private and confidential information being in the hands of a third party.
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University of Basel
October 5, 2020
Hackers have managed to steal salary payments from employees at the University of Basel.
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Unnamed Swiss university
October 5, 2020
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[ financial, hack, education ]
Hackers have managed to steal salary payments from employees at two unnamed Swiss universities.
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Unnamed Swiss university
October 5, 2020
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[ hack, education ]
Hackers have managed to steal salary payments from employees at an unnamed Swiss university.
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Chowbus
October 5, 2020
In October 2020, the Asian food delivery app Chowbus suffered a data breach which led to over 800,000 records being emailed to customers. The email contained a link to a CSV file with customer data including physical addresses, names, phone numbers and over 444,000 unique email addresses.
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Gulf Coast State College
October 4, 2020
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[ hack, phishing, education ]
Gulf Coast State College has notified some students and employees that a hacker accessed several employees' email accounts.
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Software AG
October 3, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
TA505 hits the network of German enterprise software giant Software AG last, asking for a ransom of $23 million after stealing employee information and company documents.
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Bay Shore School District
October 3, 2020
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[ hack, ddos, education ]
The Bay Shore School District is hit with a DDoS attack.
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Gravatar
October 3, 2020
In October 2020, a security researcher published a technique for scraping large volumes of data from Gravatar, the service for providing globally unique avatars . 167 million names, usernames and MD5 hashes of email addresses used to reference users' avatars were subsequently scraped and distributed within the hacking community. 114 million of the MD5 hashes were cracked and distributed alongside the source hash, thus disclosing the original email address and accompanying data. Following the impacted email addresses being searchable in HIBP, Gravatar release an FAQ detailing the incident.
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Foxtons
October 2, 2020
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[ financial, leak, malware ]
Financial details belonging to customers of UK estate agency Foxtons are widely available on the dark web following a malware attack in October last year that affected parent company Foxtons Group.
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Hospital for Special Surgery
October 2, 2020
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[ insider, malware, healthcare ]
Richard Liriano was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to use malicious software programs, including a program known as a "keylogger," on dozens of his coworkers' computers at a New York City-area hospital, secretly obtaining user names and passwords to his victims' personal email and other accounts, and using that unauthorized access to steal private and confidential files.
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City of Odessa
October 2, 2020
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[ hack, government ]
The city of Odessa has suffered a breach of its Click2Gov portal.
