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Metropolitan Police's Twitter account
July 19, 2019
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
The Metropolitan Police's Twitter account is hit by hackers who post a series of bizarre messages. The breach is due to the compromise of the MyNewsDesk platform.
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Bahamas Ministry of Tourism
July 18, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism is hit by a ransomware attack.
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Edgepark Medical Supplies
July 18, 2019
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[ hack, brute-force, manufacturing ]
Edgepark Medical Supplies notifies 6,572 patients after a "password spray attack" occurred in May 2019.
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Town of Collierville
July 18, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Town of Collierville's computer systems are hit by a ransomware attack.
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Wise Health
July 18, 2019
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Wise Health notifies almost 36,000 patients after a phishing attack compromised employees' email accounts.
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Slack
July 17, 2019
Slack resets the passwords for 1% of its users after receiving a batch of users' credentials related to the 2015 hack.
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Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
July 17, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware ]
The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco is hit by a ransomware attack. The attack occurred in May.
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62 universities
July 17, 2019
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[ hack, malware, education ]
Hackers target the systems of 62 colleges and universities by exploiting a vulnerability in third-party software used by the universities.
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iNSYNQ
July 16, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
iNSYNQ, a cloud computing provider of virtual desktop environments is down after its servers are infected with ransomware.
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Joshua Wong
July 16, 2019
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[ hack, government ]
Google warns Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong about government-backed hacking attempts.
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University of Alabama
July 16, 2019
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[ hack, education ]
The University of Alabama discovers a 2009 computer security incident involving a server for Brewer-Porch Children's Center. The server was accessed by outside hackers who got hold of 1,400 former clients, employees and medical providers.
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Ricardo Rossell
July 16, 2019
Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossell's private chat group messages are leaked on Telegram.
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Sprint
July 16, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
US mobile network operator Sprint says hackers broke into an unknown number of customer accounts via the Samsung.com "add a line" website. The breach occurred on June 22.
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Flash Flash Revolution (2019 breach)
July 16, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In July 2019, the music-based rhythm game Flash Flash Revolution suffered a data breach. The 2019 breach imapcted almost 1.9 million members and is in addition to the 2016 data breach of the same service. Email and IP addesses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 hashes were all exposed in the breach. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com.
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Bulgaria National Revenue Agency (NRA).
July 15, 2019
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[ hack, government ]
A hacker steals the personal details of millions of Bulgarians and emails download links to local news publications. The data is believed to come from the country's National Revenue Agency (NRA). Kristian Boykov, a 20-year-old IT technician is arrested.
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Foodpanda Singapore
July 15, 2019
The Foodpanda Singapore Instagram account is hacked.
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Lyon County School District
July 15, 2019
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Lyon County School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
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Bulgarian National Revenue Agency
July 15, 2019
In July 2019, a massive data breach of the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency began circulating with data on 5 million people. Allegedly obtained in June, the data was broadly shared online and included taxation information alongside names, phone numbers, physical addresses and 471 thousand unique email addresses. The breach is said to have affected "nearly all adults in Bulgaria".
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BlackSpigotMC
July 14, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In July 2019, the hacking website BlackSpigotMC suffered a data breach. The XenForo forum based site was allegedly compromised by a rival hacking website and resulted in 8.5GB of data being leaked including the database and website itself. The exposed data included 140k unique email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, genders, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
