Recent Breaches
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October 1, 2018 • In October 2018, the Russian Minecraft service VimeWorld suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 3.1M records of usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either MD5 or bcrypt hashes.
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September 30, 2018 • Burgerville reveals a data breach impacting the chain which may have led to the theft of detailed credit card information belonging to customers.
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September 29, 2018 • Gwinnett Medical Center(GMC) is hacked and the patient data is posted online.
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September 29, 2018 • Following the defeat of the Bangladeshi cricket team against India at the 2018 Asia Cup final, a group of Bangladeshi hackers defaces Virat Kohli's official website (the current captain of India's team) to protest against an 'unfair decision' during the match.
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September 28, 2018 • Recipe Unlimited, a Canadian restaurant chain that operates over 20 restaurant brands, suffers a country-wide outage of its IT systems over the weekend in a ransomware incident.
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September 28, 2018 A criminal cyber-attack is thought to have affected roughly 6.42 million customers of fashion brand SHEIN. The attack took place on August 22, and gained access to email addresses and encrypted password credentials of customers who visited the company website.
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September 28, 2018 • Toyota Industries North America notifies individuals of a phishing incident, potentially impacting approximately 19,000 current/former employees and health plan participants.
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September 27, 2018 • Facebook says a breach affected 50 million people on the social network. The vulnerability stemmed from the "view as" feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to others. Attackers exploited code associated with the feature that allowed them to steal "access tokens" that could be used to take over people's accounts.
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September 26, 2018 • The developers behind the pigeoncoin cryptocurrency confirm that an unknown attacker successfully took advantage of a bitcoin bug, printing 235 million pigeoncoins worth about $15,000.
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September 25, 2018 • Online news aggregation service NewsNow admits that it has suffered a security breach and an encrypted version of the passwords may have been accessed.
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September 25, 2018 • Service to the public in the Port of San Diego are impacted by a ransomware attack.
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September 25, 2018 • Food delivery startup DoorDash receives dozens of complaints from customers who say their accounts have been hacked. The users are the target of a credential stuffing attack.
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September 25, 2018 • Unknown attackers launch a large-scale DDoS attack that takes down RWE's website.
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September 25, 2018 • Aspire Health, is hacked earlier this month and loses at least some patient information to an unknown cyber attacker.
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September 25, 2018 • Educational technology company Chegg resets the passwords for 40 million of its users after news broke that the firm was breached in April of this year.
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September 24, 2018 • The Oklahoma City Public School District is affected by a DDoS attack on their parent portal.
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September 21, 2018 • AdGuard, a popular ad blocker for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac, resets all user passwords, after suffering a brute-force attack during which an unknown attacker tried to log into user accounts by guessing their passwords.
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September 21, 2018 A DDoS attack takes down California Democratic congressional hopeful Bryan Caforio's website just hours before he steps onto the debate stage to face fellow Democrats.
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September 21, 2018 • Infinite Campus, one of the largest student information management systems used by schools in America, is coping with the latest in a string of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.
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September 20, 2018 • Yet another Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange is hacked, losing a 6.7 billion yen (about $60 million worth of cryptocurrency), including 5,966 bitcoins.