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Tim Hortons
February 27, 2018
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
A computer virus is suspected of crashing cash registers at over 1,000 Tim Hortons coffee and donuts fast food restaurants.
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FastHealth
February 27, 2018
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[ hack, healthcare ]
FastHealth reveals that in mid-August 2017, an unauthorized party gained access to their web server and obtained patient data.
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Matteo Salvini Facebook Page
February 24, 2018
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
And after the personal blog, hacktivists from Anonymous also deface Matteo Salvini's blog page.
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Teesside University
February 24, 2018
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[ hack, phishing, education ]
Students at Teesside University are warned about a possible email security breach and urged to reset their university password.
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Wallace Community College Selma
February 24, 2018
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[ leak, phishing, education ]
Personal and financial information of current and former employees of Wallace Community College Selma is leaked through a phishing scam.
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About one dozen Connecticut government agencies
February 23, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
About one dozen Connecticut government agencies are hit with what one published report says is a WannaCry attack that knocks about 160 computers offline.
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Punjab National Bank (PNB)
February 22, 2018
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[ leak, financial, finance ]
10,000 Credit Cards details from Punjab National Bank are leaked in the dark web.
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Mobistealth
February 22, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
A hacker breaks into two consumer spyware companies, Mobistealth and Spy Master Pro and dumps a large cache of data.
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Curtis Lumber
February 22, 2018
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[ social, phishing, retail ]
Curtis Lumber is the victim of a spear phishing attack.
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic
February 22, 2018
The Los Angeles Philharmonic falls victim to a cyberattack that results in the theft of W-2 information for everyone that worked there in 2017. The security beach happened as the result of a "spear phishing" attack.
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Matteo Salvini Blog
February 22, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
The Italian elections are approaching, so Hacktivists from the collective LulzSecITA hack the blog of Matteo Salvini, the leader of right-wind Italian party "La Lega" and dump 70,000 emails.
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University of Alaska
February 22, 2018
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[ hack, phishing, education ]
Dozens of current and former employees and students of the University of Alaska are unable to access their Alaska.edu accounts. According to the investigation, user passwords have been changed by a third party.
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Unknown Organization
February 21, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
The University of Virginia Health System notifies almost 2,000 patients that their health records may have been exposed when an unauthorized third party implanted malware on a staffer's computer active between May 2015 and December 2016.
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Tesla
February 20, 2018
Researchers at security firm RedLock say hackers accessed one of Tesla's Amazon cloud accounts and used it to run currency-mining software. The breach started with a Kubernetes console left exposed.
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HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website
February 20, 2018
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
The HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website is hacked and approximately 685,000 user profiles are affected. A senior moderator's account has been compromised by an unidentified hacker, and used to access the user profiles since September 2017.
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Los Angeles Times
February 20, 2018
Troy Mursch, a security researcher at Bad Packets Report, finds cryptojacking code hidden (based on Coinhive) on the Los Angeles Times' interactive Homicide Report webpage.
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The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
February 20, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
CDOT is hit with a ransomware attack, attributed to SamSam, which forces the organization to shut down 2,000 computers.
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Blac Chyna
February 19, 2018
American model and entrepreneur Blac Chyna falls victim of The Fappening, having intimate content posted online.
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2,844 Separate Data Breaches
February 19, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2018, a massive collection of almost 3,000 alleged data breaches was found online. Whilst some of the data had previously been seen in Have I Been Pwned, 2,844 of the files consisting of more than 80 million unique email addresses had not previously been seen. Each file contained both an email address and plain text password and were consequently loaded as a single "unverified" data breach.
