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Czech Foreign Ministry
August 13, 2019
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[ espionage, government ]
According to a parliamentary committee, a foreign state is believed to be behind a cyberattack on the Czech Foreign Ministry.
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Cracked
August 13, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
Hackers from Raidforums breach the site of rival hacking forum Cracked.to and spill data for more than 321,000 of its members. The breach occurred in July.
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Indian Army
August 13, 2019
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[ hack, malware, government ]
The Indian Army detects a cybersecurity incident involving the computer of a senior office infected with malware.
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Argentine Federal Police
August 12, 2019
Hackers leak 700 GB of data obtained from the government of Argentina, including confidential documents, wiretaps and biometric information from the Argentine Federal Police, along with the personal data of police officers. The Twitter account of the Argentine Naval Prefecture was hacked as well and used to share the stolen infomration and post fake news stories.
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Argentine Naval Prefecture
August 12, 2019
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[ leak, hack, government ]
Hackers leak 700 GB of data obtained from the government of Argentina, including confidential documents, wiretaps and biometric information from the Argentine Federal Police, along with the personal data of police officers. The Twitter account of the Argentine Naval Prefecture was hacked as well and used to share the stolen information and post fake news stories.
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europa.jobs
August 11, 2019
In August 2019, the now defunct European jobs website europa.jobs (Google cache link) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 226k unique email addresses alongside extensive personal information including names, dates of birth, job applications and passwords. The data was subsequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum.
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University of Florida
August 10, 2019
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[ hack, education ]
VandaTheGod defaces multiple sites associated with the University of Florida.
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Mid-Valley Behavioral Care Networks (BCN)
August 9, 2019
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Nearly 11,000 Mid-Valley Behavioral Care Networks (BCN) are notified of a potential breach of their data, after a phishing attack on two employee email accounts.
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Air New Zealand
August 9, 2019
Air New Zealand sends e-mails to customers enrolled in its Airpoints loyalty program?????? to warn them of a phishing attack that successfully compromised the email accounts of two staff members.
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Transport for London (TfL)
August 8, 2019
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[ hack, brute-force, government ]
Transport for London (TfL) is forced to temporarily suspend the website for its Oyster system after an apparent credential stuffing attack on customers.
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TAFE NSW
August 8, 2019
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[ social, phishing, education ]
TAFE NSW has two dozen employees hit by a phishing attack.
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National Baseball Hall of Fame
August 7, 2019
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[ financial, hack, malware ]
The website for the National Baseball Hall of Fame is hacked to include a MageCart script that stole the payment information of customers who purchased items on the site. The infection occurred between November 15, 2018 and May 14, 2019.
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State Farm
August 7, 2019
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[ hack, brute-force, finance ]
US banking and insurance giant State Farm says it suffered a credential stuffing attack in July, during which "a bad actor" was able to confirm valid usernames and passwords for State Farm online accounts.
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Office of the First Deputy Prime Minister of Bahrain
August 7, 2019
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor broke into the systems of Bahrain's National Security Agency, Ministry of Interior, and office of the first deputy prime minister. On July 25, 2019, Bahraini authorities detected intrusions into its electric and water authority that shut down several systems. The attacks were similar to two hacks in 2012, in which the Shamoon virus was used to knock Qatar's natural gas firm RasGas offline and wipe data from the hard drives at Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national oil company. Iran is believed to be behind the attacks.
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Township of Maplewood
August 7, 2019
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[ hack, malware, government ]
The Township of Maplewood discovers a malware infection. The infection started on December 2018.
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Venezuelan military
August 5, 2019
Researchers from ESET reveal the details of Machete, a cyber espionage group active since 2010, stealing sensitive files from the Venezuelan military.
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AT&T
August 5, 2019
The US Department of Justice reveals that an AT&T employees took bribes to unlock millions of smartphones, and to install malware and unauthorized hardware on the company's network.
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CafePress
August 5, 2019
CafePress, the custom T-shirt and merchandise company, is hacked. According to various reports, the breach that compromised more than 23 million accounts happened on February 20.
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Camp Verde Unified School District
August 5, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Camp Verde Unified School District reveals to have been hit by a ransomware attack.
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Cardpool
August 4, 2019
A Russian hacker sells on a top-tier underground forum close to 900,000 gift cards with a total value estimated at $38 million. The cards are allegedly stolen from Cardpool.com.
