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Arlo
May 26, 2018
Arlo advises its customers to change their passwords after credential-stuffing attempts detected.
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Aultman Health Foundation
May 25, 2018
About 42,600 patients tied to AultWorks Occupational Medicine, Aultman Hospital, and some Aultman physician offices may have had personal health and identification information stolen in a data breach after unknown and unauthorized individuals gained access to certain email accounts in February and March.
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American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac)
May 25, 2018
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[ leak, finance ]
American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac) issues a press release concerning the breach of independent contractor sales agents' email accounts. The breach occurred between Jan. 17 and April 2 and has reportedly affected some clients' personal information.
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Oxnard City
May 25, 2018
Oxnard city officials are contacted by a bank representative about fraudulent purchases being made with the cards people used to pay their utility bills.
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Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology
May 24, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology notifies 6,546 patients and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of a ransomware incident that occurred in March.
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Mashhad airport
May 24, 2018
Hackers deface the screens at the Mashhad airport in Iran to protest against the government and the military's activities in the Middle East. The hackers also took control of the email account of the Mashhad airport civil aviation head, Mohsen Eidizadeh to spread the news of the hack.
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University of Vermont
May 23, 2018
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[ hack, education ]
University of Vermont officials say they have no reason to believe the personal information of 37,000 current and former faculty, staff and students fell into the wrong hands following an intrusion of the school's computer systems.
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Houzz
May 23, 2018
In mid-2018, the housing design website Houzz suffered a data breach. The company learned of the incident later that year then disclosed it to impacted members in February 2019. Almost 49 million unique email addresses were in the breach alongside names, IP addresses, geographic locations and either salted hashes of passwords or links to social media profiles used to authenticate to the service. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Verge Cryptocurrency
May 22, 2018
A hacker finds a way around a previous patch in the Verge cryptocurrency source code and takes advantage of the flaw to monopolize mining operations and create Verge coins (XVG) at a rapid pace. He is able to mine over 35 million XVG coins in just a few hours.
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Bombas
May 21, 2018
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
Bombas notifies consumers of breach going back to 2015 when malware in the code of the e-commerce platform was identified and removed on February 9, 2015.
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Allied Physicians
May 20, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Allied Physicians reports it was hit with a SamSam ransomware attack earlier this month (May 17).
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Manuel Delia's Blog
May 20, 2018
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Manuel Delia's blog (a Maltese journalist and blogger) is the target of a DDoS attack. Apparently the attack comes from Ukraine.
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Bloomfield Hills High School
May 19, 2018
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[ hack, insider, education ]
Two students from Bloomfield Hills High School are the main suspects of a recent hack discovered at the school. The two broke into the school's MISTAR Student Information System portal where they changed grades, attendance records, and attempted to refund lunch purchases.
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Michael Templeman
May 18, 2018
Dubliner Connor Freeman has been arrested for his role in a SIM-swap cryptocurrency theft conspiracy that robbed victims of their life savings. One of the victims was Michael Templeman who lost $167,622.22.
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Shona McGarty
May 18, 2018
Actress Shona McGarty, who plays Whitney Carter in EastEnders, is the latest celebrity to have intimate pictures leaked on the internet. Apparently her photos were stolen from the iCloud account.
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University of Buffalo
May 18, 2018
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[ hack, education ]
University of Buffalo confirms to be investigating and responding to a breach of 2,690 UBITName accounts.
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Bitcoin Gold
May 18, 2018
An unidentified hacker performs several "double spend" attacks on the infrastructure of the Bitcoin Gold cryptocurrency and manages to amass over $18 million worth of BTG (Bitcoin Gold) coins in the process.
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Tidal
May 18, 2018
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[ hack ]
Jay-Z's Tidal streaming platform announces to have enlisted an "independent, third party cyber-security firm" to investigate a possible data breach, after reports of inflated subscriber and streaming numbers.
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blackphoenixalchemylab
May 17, 2018
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
blackphoenixalchemylab.com discovers malware inserted into the portion of the checkout page between May 1 and May 16.
