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Al Jazeera Media Network
June 8, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The websites and digital platforms of Al Jazeera Media Network are undergoing "systematic and continual hacking attempts". Internal sources reveal that the network is facing a DDoS attack.
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CD Projekt Red
June 8, 2017
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[ ransomware, technology ]
CD Projekt Red, the Polish studio maker behind the popular The Witcher 3 RPG, suffers a data breach and the attacker is holding the company for ransom, threatening to release stolen files if the game maker doesn't pay an undisclosed sum of money.
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Gordon Ramsay
June 7, 2017
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[ financial, hack, insider ]
The father-in-law of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is jailed for six months after pleading guilty to attempting to hack into his computer to steal financial information and 'dirty' secrets on the star for the hacking plot to crack into Ramsay's private email.
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Southern Oregon University
June 7, 2017
Southern Oregon University announces that it is the latest organization to fall victim to a business email compromise (BEC) attack after fraudsters tricked the educational establishment into transferring money into a bank account under their control.
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Montenegro
June 6, 2017
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[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Security firm FireEye reveals the details of a wave of attacks targeting Montenegro using spear-phishing, after its decision to join NATO.
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Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
June 6, 2017
APT28 has targeted the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with phishing emails by spoofing a NATO email address.
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A US voting software supplier
June 5, 2017
A new report reveals that Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to 122 local election officials just days before last November's presidential election.
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BTC-E
June 5, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
BTC-E.com, the popular Bitcoin and Litecoin exchange platform is the target of a DDoS Attack.
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Exposed VINs
June 5, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In June 2017, an unsecured database with more than 10 million VINs (vehicle identification numbers) was discovered by researchers. Believed to be sourced from US car dealerships, the data included a raft of personal information and vehicle data along with 397k unique email addresses.
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Steve Harvey's Funderdome
June 4, 2017
The Dark Overlord, which recently leaked ten episodes of Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" makes a resurgence, releasing on the Pirate Bay a selection of eight episodes from ABC's upcoming network television show "Steve Harvey's Funderdome".
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Hotels
June 3, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
Hotels.com sends an email to some customers advising that their username, password, email address, and the last four digits of stored credit card numbers were potentially stolen last month (between may 22 and 29).
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Stanford University Subdomain
June 1, 2017
For almost four months, one of Stanford's subdomains (Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University) has been compromised and used for hosting web shells, mailers, and other types of web malware.
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University of Alaska
June 1, 2017
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[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing scam in December 2016 resulted in a data breach at the University of Alaska, affecting around 25,000 students, staff and faculty members.
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Good Choice (hotel reservation app)
June 1, 2017
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
Hackers suspected of breaching a popular South Korean mobile app and stealing the personal data of more than 990,000 are arrested by local police in Korea.
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OneLogin
May 31, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
OneLogin reveals the details about an attack on its systems, confirming that a "threat actor" has accessed database tables including "information about users, apps, and various types of keys." The attacker was been able to rifle through OneLogin's infrastructure for seven hours.
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Kmart
May 31, 2017
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
For the second time in less than three years, Kmart Stores suffers a malware-based security breach of its store credit card processing systems.
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Qnect
May 31, 2017
Qnect, a Sydney startup has its customer data stolen with the hackers threatening to publish the information unless bitcoins are paid out.
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Liverpool One Shopping Centre
May 30, 2017
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[ hack, retail ]
Liverpool One shopping centre is forced to shut down a slew of digital billboards after an unknown hacker tampers with the signage.
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Old Mutual
May 30, 2017
Financial services company Old Mutual has notified its customers of a data breach, after it detected unauthorised entry to one of its systems which led to some personal customer information being accessed.
