Atlas
August 27, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Atlas, a popular Brazilian cryptocurrency investment platform is hacked. The personal information of over 264,000 of its customers is leaked, including 4,500 records that detail users' balances on the platform.
Bank of Spain
August 26, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Hacktivists from Anonymous Catalonia claim to have taken down the website of Bank of Spain.
Atlas Quantum
August 25, 2018
•[ leak, finance ]
In August 2018, the cryptocurrency investment platform Atlas Quantum suffered a data breach. The breach leaked the personal data of 261k investors on the platform including their names, phone numbers, email addresses and account balances.
Coweta County
August 24, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Coweta County restores most of its computer servers, nearly two weeks after hackers demanded $341,000 in bitcoins.
Schneider Electric
August 24, 2018
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Schneider Electric finds a malicious code on the USB drives that have been shipped with Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor products.
HTH Studios
August 24, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
In August 2018, the adult furry interactive game creator HTH Studios suffered a data breach impacting multiple repositories of customer data. Several months later, the data surfaced on a popular hacking forum and included 411k unique email addresses along with physical and IP addresses, names, orders, salted SHA-1 and salted MD5 hashes. HTH Studios is aware of the incident.
T-Mobile
August 23, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
T-Mobile reveals that hackers stole some of the personal data of 2 million people in a new data breach. The intrusion took place on August 20 when hackers accessed company servers through an API that "didn't contain any financial data or other sensitive data."
Undisclosed cryptocurrency exchange
August 22, 2018
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Kaspersky Lab reveals the details of Operation AppleJeus, an attack against cryptocurrency exchanges carried out via a trojanized cryptocurrency trading application distributing the Fallchill malware.
Cheddar Scratch Kitchen
August 22, 2018
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Restaurants in 23 states belonging to Cheddar Scratch Kitchen are affected by a cyberattack that exposed payment card information. The amount of impacted card details is estimated to be 567,000 and were stolen between November 3, 2017, and January 2, 2018.
Legacy Health
August 20, 2018
•[ phishing, healthcare ]
Legacy Health notifies 38,000 patients that a phishing attack may have breached their data. Officials discovered unauthorized access to some employee email accounts on June 21. However, the access began several weeks before in May 2018.
Animoto
August 20, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Animoto, a cloud-based video maker service for social media sites, reveals a data breach. The breach occurred on July 10 but was confirmed by the company in early August, and later reported to the California attorney general. Names, dates of birth and user email addresses were accesed by the hackers, but the company said it wasn't known if data had been exfiltrated.
Superdrug
August 20, 2018
•[ hack, retail ]
Superdrug confirms that hackers claim to have obtained the personal details of almost 20,000 individuals who shopped online at Superdrug.
Bossier City
August 18, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Some Bossier City water customers may have had their information compromised due to a possible breach of an online billing payment system.
David Min
August 18, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
Reuters reveals that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a cyber attack on the congressional campaign of David Min, a Democratic candidate in California.
Eastern Maine Community College
August 17, 2018
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor warns of a possible data breach that could have exposed the personal information of current and former staff and students. School officials notify 42,000 current and former students and employees that certain computers were recently infected with malware and may have been hacked.
Dallas County Community College
August 17, 2018
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Dallas County Community College discloses a breach after some employees' emails credentials are compromised by a phishing attack from September 14, 2017 to December 18, 2017.
TelAlaska
August 16, 2018
•[ espionage, technology ]
A threat actor is targeting multiple organizations with trade ties to China, including those connected with China's Belt and Road Initiative. The actor also targets organizations in advance of officials' meetings with Chinese trade officials.
Augusta University Health
August 16, 2018
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Augusta University Health discloses a breach affecting 417,000 patients as a consequence of two phishing attacks occurred on September 11, 2017 and July 31, 2018.
SpyFone
August 16, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2018, the spyware company SpyFone left terabytes of data publicly exposed. Collected surreptitiously whilst the targets were using their devices, the data included photos, audio recordings, text messages and browsing history which were then exposed via a number of misconfigurations within SpyFone's systems. The data belonged the thousands of SpyFone customers and included 44k unique email addresses, many likely belonging to people the targeted phones had contact with.
Hans Keirstead
August 15, 2018
•[ hack, cyberattack, government ]
Rolling Stone reveals that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a series of cyberattacks over the past year that targeted Dr. Hans Keirstead, a Democratic candidate in California.
