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Elexon
May 14, 2020
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[ hack, malware, energy ]
Elexon, a middleman in the UK power grid network, reports that it fell victim to a cyber-attack (probably malware).
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Interserve
May 13, 2020
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[ hack, government ]
Interserve, a contractor for Britain's Ministry of Defence suffers a security breach, after hackers break into a database and steal up to 100,000 past and current employees details.
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North Shore Pain Management
May 13, 2020
North Shore Pain Management has 4 GB of data leaked by the AKO ransomware gang.
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Wright County
May 13, 2020
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[ social, phishing, government ]
Wright County notifies residents of a phishing attack that occurred on January 31, 2019.
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Bam Construct
May 13, 2020
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[ hack, malware ]
Bam Construct is hit by malware.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel
May 13, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveals that Russia was targeting her in hacking attacks, saying she had concrete proof of the "outrageous" spying attempts.
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ESET
May 12, 2020
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[ ddos, malware, technology ]
ESET fends off a DDoS attack facilitated by "Updates for Android", a malicious news app hosted in the Google Play Store and downloaded 50,000 times.
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W&T Offshore
May 12, 2020
The hackers behind the Nefilim malware say they have stolen over 800 gigabytes of personnel and financial data from W&T Offshore Inc.
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Diebold Nixdorf
May 11, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Diebold Nixdorf, a major provider of automatic teller machines (ATMs) and payment technology to banks and retailers, suffers a ProLock ransomware attack that disrupts some operations.
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Pitney Bowes
May 11, 2020
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[ hack, technology ]
Pitney Bowes suffers a cyber attack for the second time in few months. The attackers are detected but manage to steal some files.
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WeLeakData
May 11, 2020
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[ leak, technology ]
The database for the defunct hacker forum and data breach marketplace WeLeakData.com is being sold on the dark web and exposes the private conversations of hackers who used the site.
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Port of Bandar Abbas
May 10, 2020
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[ hack, government ]
Iranian officials say that hackers damaged a small number of computers in a cyber-attack against the port of Bandar Abbas, the country's largest port in the Strait of Hormuz.
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North Macedonia's Ministry of Economy and Finance
May 10, 2020
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[ leak, government ]
A Greek group called Powerful Greek Army leaks dozens of email addresses and passwords from staffers in North Macedonia's Ministry of Economy and Finance, as well as from the municipality of Strumica.
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Zacks
May 10, 2020
In December 2022, the investment research company Zacks announced a data breach. The following month, reports emerged of the incident impacting 820k customers. However, in June 2023, a corpus of data with almost 9M Zacks customers appeared before being broadly circulated on a popular hacking forum. The most recent data was dated May 2020 and included names, usernames, email and physical addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-256 hashes. On disclosure of the larger breach, Zacks advised that in addition to their original report "the unauthorised third parties also gained access to encrypted [sic] passwords of zacks.com customers, but only in the encrypted [sic] format".
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Ggumim
May 9, 2020
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[ leak, technology ]
Ggumim has 2 million records leaked by ShinyHunters.
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Stadler
May 9, 2020
International rail vehicle construction company, Stadler, disclosed that it was the victim of a cyberattack which might have also allowed the attackers to steal company and employee data.
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Mindful
May 9, 2020
2 million accounts from Mindful are leaked by the ShinyHunters.
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Minted
May 9, 2020
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[ leak, retail ]
Minted, an online marketplace of independent artists and designers, suffers 5 million accounts leaked by ShinyHunters.
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Bitly
May 9, 2020
Bitly, the URL shortening service, is hacked, with probable compromising of user data. The vulnerable data includes email addresses, encrypted passwords, API keys, and OAuth tokens.
