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Punjab National Bank (PNB)
February 22, 2018
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[ leak, financial, finance ]
10,000 Credit Cards details from Punjab National Bank are leaked in the dark web.
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Mobistealth
February 22, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
A hacker breaks into two consumer spyware companies, Mobistealth and Spy Master Pro and dumps a large cache of data.
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Curtis Lumber
February 22, 2018
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[ social, phishing, retail ]
Curtis Lumber is the victim of a spear phishing attack.
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic
February 22, 2018
The Los Angeles Philharmonic falls victim to a cyberattack that results in the theft of W-2 information for everyone that worked there in 2017. The security beach happened as the result of a "spear phishing" attack.
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Matteo Salvini Blog
February 22, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
The Italian elections are approaching, so Hacktivists from the collective LulzSecITA hack the blog of Matteo Salvini, the leader of right-wind Italian party "La Lega" and dump 70,000 emails.
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University of Alaska
February 22, 2018
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[ hack, phishing, education ]
Dozens of current and former employees and students of the University of Alaska are unable to access their Alaska.edu accounts. According to the investigation, user passwords have been changed by a third party.
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Unknown Organization
February 21, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
The University of Virginia Health System notifies almost 2,000 patients that their health records may have been exposed when an unauthorized third party implanted malware on a staffer's computer active between May 2015 and December 2016.
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Tesla
February 20, 2018
Researchers at security firm RedLock say hackers accessed one of Tesla's Amazon cloud accounts and used it to run currency-mining software. The breach started with a Kubernetes console left exposed.
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HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website
February 20, 2018
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
The HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website is hacked and approximately 685,000 user profiles are affected. A senior moderator's account has been compromised by an unidentified hacker, and used to access the user profiles since September 2017.
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Los Angeles Times
February 20, 2018
Troy Mursch, a security researcher at Bad Packets Report, finds cryptojacking code hidden (based on Coinhive) on the Los Angeles Times' interactive Homicide Report webpage.
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The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
February 20, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
CDOT is hit with a ransomware attack, attributed to SamSam, which forces the organization to shut down 2,000 computers.
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Blac Chyna
February 19, 2018
American model and entrepreneur Blac Chyna falls victim of The Fappening, having intimate content posted online.
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2,844 Separate Data Breaches
February 19, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2018, a massive collection of almost 3,000 alleged data breaches was found online. Whilst some of the data had previously been seen in Have I Been Pwned, 2,844 of the files consisting of more than 80 million unique email addresses had not previously been seen. Each file contained both an email address and plain text password and were consequently loaded as a single "unverified" data breach.
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India's City Union Bank
February 18, 2018
India's City Union Bank reveals that cyber criminals have been able to hack its systems and transfer nearly $2 million through three unauthorized remittances to lenders overseas via the SWIFT financial platform.
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Davidson County
February 16, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Davidson County computers are hit by an unspecified ransomware.
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Roomsurf
February 16, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
Roomsurf notifies its users of a data breach in which the attacker has been able to obtain usernames, phone numbers, and email addresses.
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Unnamed Russian bank
February 16, 2018
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[ financial, hack, finance ]
The Russian Central Bank reveals that unknown hackers stole 339.5 million roubles ($6 million) from a Russian bank last year in an attack using the SWIFT international payments messaging system.
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Laufer Group International
February 16, 2018
Laufer Group International is the victim of a W-2 scam.
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Jemison Internal Medicine
February 16, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Jemison Internal Medicine notifies 6,550 patients of a ransomware attack. However the investigation reveals that the systems had already been compromised.
