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Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (UHBVNL)
March 21, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, energy ]
Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (UHBVNL), a power distribution company suffers a cyber attack on its Automatic Meter Reading System (AMR) in which billing data of about 4,000 industrial consumers are encrypted. The attackers demand a ransomware extortion payment.
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Finger Lakes Health
March 20, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Finger Lakes Health is functioning the old-fashioned way while its computer system remains locked up by an unspecified type of ransomware.
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Orbitz
March 20, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
Orbitz, a subsidiary of online travel agency Expedia Inc reveals that hackers may have accessed personal information from about 880,000 payment cards. The breach may have occurred between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 22, 2017 for its partner platform and between Jan. 1, 2016 and June 22, 2016 for its consumer platform.
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Trusted Quid
March 20, 2018
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[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Trusted Quid reports a theft of data from unauthorised access to its website. The incident relates to data directly entered by people applying for a loan only on the Trusted Quid website between 1 July 2016 and 17 February 2018. Up to 65,925 people may have been affected by the incident.
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David Nott
March 20, 2018
David Nott, a British surgeon who helped carry out operations in Aleppo, reveals that the hacking of his computer could have led to a hospital being bombed by suspected Russian warplanes.
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Puerto Rico's Power Utility, PREPA
March 19, 2018
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[ hack, energy ]
Puerto Rico's Power Utility, PREPA reveals to have been hacked over the weekend, but customer information was not compromised.
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Bestialitysextaboo
March 19, 2018
In March 2018, the animal bestiality website known as Bestialitysextaboo was hacked. A collection of various sites running on the same service were also compromised and details of the hack (including links to the data) were posted on a popular forum. In all, more than 3.2k unique email addresses were included alongside usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth, genders and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
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Russian Central Election Commission
March 18, 2018
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Russian Central Election Commission is hit by a DDoS attack.
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Atrium Hospitality
March 16, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware ]
Atrium Hospitality notifies 376 hotel guests of a ransomware attack that occurred on December 2017.
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UK National Lottery
March 16, 2018
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[ hack, brute-force, government ]
The UK National Lottery advises all 10.5 million people with online accounts to change their passwords following an attempt by hackers to access accounts using credential stuffing.
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TheDarkOverlord
March 16, 2018
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[ hack, manufacturing ]
TheDarkOverlord claims to have breached H-E Parts Morgan. The breach seems to have occurred in November.
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U.S. Maritime Entities
March 16, 2018
Security firm FireEye reveals the details of TEMP.Periscope, a Chinese group focused on U.S. maritime entities that were either linked to -- or have clients operating in -- the South China Sea.
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Frost Bank
March 16, 2018
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[ hack, finance ]
Frost Bank investigates a breach after the company discovered unauthorized access to digital images stored in those customers' commercial image archives.
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Family Health Clinic of Carroll County
March 15, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Patients of the Purdue University Pharmacy and the Family Health Clinic of Carroll County receive notices that their information might be compromised because of a security breach. A malicious file was installed on some computers on September 1st.
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Unnamed petrochemical company in Saudi Arabia
March 15, 2018
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[ hack, energy ]
The New York Times reveals that back in August, a petrochemical company with a plant in Saudi Arabia was hit by a cyberattack aimed to sabotage the firm's operations and trigger an explosion.
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Unnamed European government
March 15, 2018
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Palo Alto Networks reveal a new campaign carried on by the infamous APT28 (AKA Fancy Bear AKA Sofacy) targeting an unnamed European Government, exploiting an updated version of DealersChoice, a platform that exploits a Flash vulnerability.
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Svitzer
March 15, 2018
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[ insider, misconfiguration ]
The shipping company Svitzer suffers a significant data breach affecting almost half its Australian employees when three employees have had emails auto-forwarded in the past 11 months.
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Meghan Markle
March 15, 2018
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[ leak, hack ]
The Fappening saga continues with new photo leaks published online. The most recent victim is none other than Meghan Markle, the soon-to-be Mrs. Prince Harry. Some believe ISIS could be involved in the hack, even if no official claim is made.
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Nampa School District
March 15, 2018
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[ leak, education ]
The Nampa School District informed its employees of a potential security issue involving personally identifiable information of about 3,983 of its current and past employees.
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Fortnite
March 14, 2018
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[ hack, financial, technology ]
Several news reports surface of the suspected hacking of player accounts of popular video game Fortnite, with some gamers apparently faced with large credit card charges from fraudulent purchases.
