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Mikaela Hoover
February 8, 2018
The Fappening scandal continues even in 2018, and Guardians of the Galaxy actress Mikaela Hoover appears to be the most recent victim.
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Undisclosed water utility company
February 8, 2018
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[ financial, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Radiflow discover the first example of a malware attacking the operational network of a water utility company in order to mine the Monero cryptocurrency,
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Decatur County General Hospital
February 8, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons, Tenn., publicly discloses that an unauthorized party accessed the server for its electronic medical record system and secretly implanted cryptomining malware.
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Nova Poshta
February 7, 2018
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[ leak ]
Personal data of 500,000 Nova Poshta clients, the largest private delivery company in Ukraine, is allegedly leaked to dark web.
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Smith Dental
February 7, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Smith Dental notifies of a ransomware attack affecting 1,500 patients.
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City of Enumclaw
February 7, 2018
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[ social, phishing, government ]
The city of Enumclaw accidentally sends an email to an "individual pretending to be a member of City administration" and compromises the W-2s of hundreds of employees.
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Business Wire
February 7, 2018
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Press release network Business Wire admits suffering an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack lasting a week.
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Swisscom
February 7, 2018
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[ leak, technology ]
Swisscom, the biggest telecom company in Switzerland, suffers a data breach that resulted in the compromise of personal data of some 800,000 customers, i.e., nearly ten percent of the entire Swiss population. The breach dates back to Autumn 2017.
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The Sacramento Bee
February 7, 2018
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[ ransomware, information ]
The Sacramento Bee deletes two databases hosted by a third party after a ransomware attack exposed the voter records of 19.5 million California voters and 53,000 current and former subscribers to the newspaper.
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Italian Democratic Party (PD)
February 6, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
The AnonPlus hacker group says they have hacked the Florence branch of the Italian centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and leaked data regarding leader Matteo Renzi online.
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Province of Milan
February 6, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
The same hackers also claim to have hacked the website of Provincia di Milano (Province of Milan) in Italy.
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Waldo County
February 5, 2018
A phishing attack compromised the information of 100 Waldo County employees.
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Partners HealthCare System
February 5, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Partners HealthCare System reveals to have discovered a malware attack, occurred in May, 2017 that may have exposed 2,600 patients' information.
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University of Northern Colorado
February 5, 2018
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[ hack, education ]
The private information of 12 University of Northern Colorado employees is compromised after an "unknown person or group" accessed their profiles on Ursa, UNC's online portal.
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City of Keokuk
February 4, 2018
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[ leak, phishing, government ]
The City of Keokuk says a data breach resulted in the release of personal information of current and former city employees and elected leaders. An unauthorized party was able to obtain 2017 W-2 tax forms through the use of a "criminal phishing email."
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Autocentrum.pl
February 4, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In February 2018, data belonging to the Polish motoring website autocentrum.pl was found online. The data contained 144k email addresses and plain text passwords.
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Ron's Pharmacy Services
February 2, 2018
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[ leak, retail ]
Ron's Pharmacy Services notifies certain patients of the unauthorized access to certain limited pieces of patient information, including patient names, Ron's Pharmacy internal account numbers, and payment adjustment information.
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Aperio
February 1, 2018
Aperio informs of a data breach that occurred when two employees' email accounts were compromised by successful phishing attacks that resulted in auto-forwarding email from those accounts to two external accounts.
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City of Batavia
February 1, 2018
The city of Batavia reports employees' personal and financial information was compromised through an email phishing of W-2 tax forms. The information includes names, social security numbers, addresses and earnings.
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Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates
February 1, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates notifies HHS of a ransomware incident that impacted 925 patients.
