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Foxit Software
August 30, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, announces that hackers breached its servers and made off with some user information.
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Oregon Judicial Department
August 30, 2019
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[ social, phishing, government ]
A phishing scheme succeeds in breaking into the email accounts of five Oregon Judicial Department employees, exposing personal information of more than 6,000 people.
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U.K.-based energy firm
August 30, 2019
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[ financial, social, energy ]
An insurance firm (Euler Hermes Group SA) reveals that criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a CEO's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of 220,000 ($243,000) back in March.
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Jack Dorsey's Twitter account
August 30, 2019
Hackers take over Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account, and tweet offensive and racist content.
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United Nations
August 30, 2019
A leaked report reveals that the European network of the United Nations was compromised during the summer of 2019.
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The Digital Dental Record
August 29, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Hundreds of dental practice offices in the US are infected with Sodinokibi ransomware, after attackers compromise two software providers, The Digital Dental Record and PerCSoft, and use them to distribute the ransomware.
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Wolcott Public Schools
August 28, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Wolcott Public Schools reveals that it has not fully recovered from a ransomware attack at the end of the last year.
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Capital & Coast DHB
August 27, 2019
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
A Capital & Coast DHB staff member falls victim to an email phishing scam which took thousands of emails from their address.
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Imperva
August 27, 2019
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Imperva discloses a security incident that impacts customers of its cloud Web Application Firewall. Apparently the intruders made off with customer API keys and SSL certificates.
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Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB)
August 27, 2019
Criminals steal more than 1.5 million ($1.65 million) from OLB by cloning customer debit cards and then cashing out user funds across Brazil, despite the original cards being protected by EMV (chip-and-PIN) technology.
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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.
