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White and Bright Family Dental
February 16, 2018
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[ hack, healthcare ]
White and Bright Family Dental notifies patients of a hack occurred on January 30, 2018.
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Retina-X Studios
February 15, 2018
A vigilante hacker claims to have wiped 1 Terabyte of data from Retina-X Studios, a company that sells spyware products.
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Staybridge Suites Lexington Hotel
February 14, 2018
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
The Staybridge Suites Lexington Hotel is hit with what appears to be a point of sales data breach that occurred when several devices at the hotel were hit with malware.
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Atos
February 14, 2018
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Reports emerge that the Olympic Destroyer malware might be used months before to target Atos, the IT provider of Winter Olympics.
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Western Union
February 14, 2018
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[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Western Union warns that some customers' information may have been accessed without authorization as a result of a computer intrusion against an external vendor system formerly used by Western Union for secure data storage.
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City of Allentown
February 13, 2018
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[ malware, government ]
The city of Allentown is hit by the Emotet Trojan. The City believes that the cost of remediation is closeto $1 million.
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Advertisement screen in London
February 13, 2018
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
And the last victim of the cryptocurrency frenzy is an advertisement screen in London that is infected by a miner.
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City of Savannah
February 13, 2018
The city of Savannah is in recovery mode after being hit by a malware attack when a city worker most likely opened a malicious email.
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Entergy
February 12, 2018
Entergy notifies employees of a W-2 breach involving the TALX portal (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equifax). The breach involves 2016 W-2 data.
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Idaho Transportation Department (ITD)
February 12, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
A hack of two email accounts at the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) potentially exposes the personal information of commercial truckers whose rigs are registered in Idaho, including Social Security and credit card numbers.
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Florida Virtual School
February 12, 2018
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[ leak, education ]
In March 2018, the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) posted a data breach notification to their website. The school had identified a data breach which had occurred sometime between 6 May 2016 and 12 Feb 2018 and an XML file containing 368k student records was subsequently found circulating. Each record contained student name, date of birth, password, grade, email and parent email resulting in a total of 543k unique email addresses. Due to the prevalence of email addresses belonging to individuals who are still legally children, the data breach has been flagged as "sensitive".
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BitGrail
February 10, 2018
Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail reports a loss of 17 million Nano, valued at over $170 million at the time of the hack. However, conflicting reports surface with some believing the exchange to be insolvent for a number of months.
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Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
February 10, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizers confirm that the Games had fallen victim to a cyber attack during Friday's opening ceremony, but they refused to reveal the source. US intelligence the attack was carried by Russia while trying to make it appear as though North Korea was responsible.
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Newtek Business Services Corp.,
February 10, 2018
Newtek Business Services Corp., a Web services conglomerate that operates more than 100,000 business Web sites and some 40,000 managed technology accounts, has several of its core domain names stolen over the weekend.
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Mikaela Hoover
February 8, 2018
The Fappening scandal continues even in 2018, and Guardians of the Galaxy actress Mikaela Hoover appears to be the most recent victim.
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Undisclosed water utility company
February 8, 2018
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[ financial, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Radiflow discover the first example of a malware attacking the operational network of a water utility company in order to mine the Monero cryptocurrency,
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Decatur County General Hospital
February 8, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons, Tenn., publicly discloses that an unauthorized party accessed the server for its electronic medical record system and secretly implanted cryptomining malware.
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Nova Poshta
February 7, 2018
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[ leak ]
Personal data of 500,000 Nova Poshta clients, the largest private delivery company in Ukraine, is allegedly leaked to dark web.
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Smith Dental
February 7, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Smith Dental notifies of a ransomware attack affecting 1,500 patients.
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City of Enumclaw
February 7, 2018
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[ social, phishing, government ]
The city of Enumclaw accidentally sends an email to an "individual pretending to be a member of City administration" and compromises the W-2s of hundreds of employees.
