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Michael Terpin
August 15, 2018
Michael Terpin, a bitcoin investor is suing AT&T for $240m after it allegedly ported his phone number to a hacker, allowing the criminal to steal $24m in cryptocurrency.
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Cosmos Bank
August 11, 2018
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[ hack, malware, finance ]
Cyber criminals hack the systems of India's Cosmos Bank and siphon off nearly 944 million rupees ($13.5 million) through simultaneous withdrawals across 28 countries. Unidentified hackers stole customer information through a malware attack on its ATM server.
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Adams County
August 10, 2018
Adams County officials release a media statement and a detailed notification regarding a security breach affecting 258,120 individuals in the Adams County. The investigations revealed that the breach, due to an unauthorized access, lasted for around six years.
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Butlin's
August 10, 2018
Butlin's has confirmed that the records of up to 34,000 guests have been accessed by hackers. The stolen data does not include payment details, but customers' names, holiday dates, postal and email addresses and telephone numbers.
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Hennepin County
August 9, 2018
Officials reveal that cyber attackers have infiltrated e-mail accounts for about 20 Hennepin County employees since late June, and may have accessed the private information of people who rely on the county's services.
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PGA of America
August 7, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware ]
PGA of America's computers are locked by a ransomware.
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HauteLook
August 7, 2018
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[ leak, retail ]
In mid-2018, the fashion shopping site HauteLook was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included over 28 million unique email addresses alongside names, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Rbx.Rocks
August 6, 2018
In August 2018, the Roblox trading site Rbx.Rocks suffered a data breach. Almost 25k records were sent to HIBP in November and included names, email addresses and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. In July 2019, a further 125k records emerged bringing the total size of the incident to 150k. The website has since gone offline with a message stating that "Rbx.Rocks v2.0 is currently under construction".
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RAF Airwoman
August 4, 2018
An RAF airwoman has her Tinder profile hacked. The attackers use the hacked profile to steal secrets of Britain's new F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter.
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Livecoin
August 4, 2018
Livecoin crypto exchange announces that it met considerable losses because crucial bug in Monero code, allowing to manipulate transaction amounts. The total amount of the funds lost is 15108 XMR (more than $1,8 million).
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Vantiv
August 3, 2018
Researchers from Oracle publish the details of three DNS hijacks against three payment processors.
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Mention
August 3, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
Mention CEO Matthieu Vaxelaire informs users of the occurrence of a data security breach involving a third-party provider. The breach occurred in July and Mention promptly reported details to the French data protection authorities.
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TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.)
August 3, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
A computer virus, later reported to be a variant of WannaCry, halts several Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. factories, the sole maker of the iPhone's main processor.
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Ghanem al-Masarir
August 1, 2018
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor targeted Ghanem al-Masarir, a Saudi dissident, for espionage purposes. The threat actor used the Pegasus tool, created by the NSO Group.
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Reddit
August 1, 2018
Reddit discloses a breach of its systems that compromised user data including some current email addresses and salted and hashed passwords from a 2007 database backup. The attacker gained access to several employee accounts via SMS intercept between June 14 and June 18.
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Amnesty International
August 1, 2018
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
Amnesty International reveals to have been targeted by a campaign carried out via the surveillance malware developed by the Israel surveillance vendor, NSO Group.
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recruitmilitary
August 1, 2018
A user called booloop a publishes a database containing over 850,000 US military officers personal information.
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Hong Kong's Department of Health
August 1, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Three computers at the Hong Kong Department of Health are hit by ransomware.
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Yahya Assiri
August 1, 2018
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
A threat actor targeted Yahya Assiri, a critic of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for espionage purposes. The threat actor used the Pegasus tool, created by the NSO Group.
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