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Lumber Liquidators
August 27, 2019
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[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Lumber Liquidators reveals that a malware attack took down its network. The attack occurred on August 21.
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New Kent Co. Public Schools
August 27, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
New Kent Co. Public Schools are hit by a ransomware attack ahead of new school year.
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AlpineReplay
August 27, 2019
In 2019, the snow sports tracking app AlpineReplay suffered a data breach that exposed 900k unique email addresses. Later rolled into the Trace service, the breach included names, usernames, genders, dates of birth, weights and passwords stored as either unsalted MD5 or bcrypt hashes.
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Australian PayID users
August 26, 2019
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[ hack, brute-force, finance ]
Tens of thousands of Australians have had their personal banking information hacked by fraudsters, after fraudulent accounts worked to generate a series of random numbers and retrieve the victims' PayID details.
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Rockville Center, N.Y. School District
August 26, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Rockville Center, N.Y. School District pays an $88,000 ransom to regain access to files encrypted by Ryuk ransomware. The attack took place on July 25.
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Hostinger
August 25, 2019
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Hostinger discloses a security incident that impacted its platform and users. A hacker gained access to an internal server, where he found an authorization token for an internal API used to retrieve information about up to 14 million clients.
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Lake County
August 24, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A ransomware attack forces emergency shutdown of Lake County government servers.
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Lyons Companies
August 23, 2019
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[ hack, phishing, manufacturing ]
Lyons Companies announces that two employee email accounts were accessed without authorization between February 4 and March 12, 2019.
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Mastercard Priceless Specials loyalty program
August 23, 2019
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[ leak, finance ]
Mastercard discloses a data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities involving customer data from the company's Priceless Specials loyalty program. Two files with the details of the loyalty program members are leaked on the Internet.
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Astro
August 22, 2019
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[ technology ]
Astro announces that its database was accessed impacting customer data.
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Fortnite
August 22, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Researchers from Cyren discover Syrk, a ransomware, in disguise of an aimbot cheat tool, targeting Fortnite players.
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Congressional Research Service
August 22, 2019
A threat actor targeted a number of foreign ministries, a Chinese technology company, Stanford University, think tanks in the United States and the United Kingdom, and other entities that have focused on North Korea's nuclear efforts or the related international sanctions. The threat actor created a network of malicious websites imitating the login portals of targets.
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Alberta Health Services
August 22, 2019
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[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Alberta Health Services warns 7,000 patients their personal health information is compromised in an email hack.
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Unnamed leading India-based healthcare website
August 22, 2019
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[ healthcare, hack ]
Researchers from FireEye reveal that back in February, a hacker broke into a leading India-based healthcare website, stealing 6.8 million records containing patient and doctor information.
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
August 22, 2019
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) exposed private data, including genetic information, on 9,900 people participating in research programs, after an "unauthorized third party" gained access to the data between June 10 and June 16.
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Sonoma Valley Hospital
August 22, 2019
The domain of Sonoma Valley Hospital is hijacked.
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Hospice of San Joaquin
August 21, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Hospice of San Joaquin notifies the California Attorney General's Office that it had suffered a ransomware attack on July 2.
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ToonDoo
August 21, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In August 2019, the comic strip creation website ToonDoo suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum in November where the personal information of over 6M subscribers was shared. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, usernames, genders, the location of the individual and salted password hashes.
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PokerTracker
August 20, 2019
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
The PokerTracker website is compromised and loaded with a Magecart script.
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City of Saskatoon
August 20, 2019
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[ social, phishing, education ]
A scammer is able to successfully fool the City of Saskatoon into transferring them a little over $1 million. Part of the money is recovered though.
