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Texas Department of Agriculture
December 15, 2017
Students from 39 East Texas School Districts have their information compromised by an October hack of the Texas Department of Agriculture. The Department oversees school breakfast and lunch programs.
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Transneft
December 15, 2017
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[ hack, malware ]
Transneft reveals that its computers have been used for the unauthorized manufacture, or "mining", of the cryptocurrency Monero.
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John Kahlbetzer
December 14, 2017
John Kahlbetzer, one of Australia's richest men suffers a $1m loss after his assistant is taken in by a classic Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam.
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Fox-IT
December 14, 2017
Dutch security firm Fox-IT reveals to have fallen victim of a DNS Hijacking attack on September 19th 2017. The attacker modifies a DNS record for one particular server to point to a server in their possession and to intercept and forward the traffic to the original server that to Fox-IT.
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Petro Rabigh
December 14, 2017
Security firm FireEye and Schneider Electric SE reveal the details of a new operation targeting Triconex industrial safety technology widely used inside nuclear, oil and gas plants. The first victim is allegedly located in Saudi Arabia. The malware is dubbed "Triton". A June 2021 indictment charges Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh, an employee of a Russian Ministry of Defense research institute and his co-conspirators, over causing two separate emergency shutdowns at a foreign targeted facility after deploying the Triton/Trisis malware.
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Osaka University
December 13, 2017
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[ hack, education ]
Osaka University says that personal data of around 80,000 students, graduates, staff, former workers and others may have been stolen by hackers.
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Anderson Cooper's Twitter account (@andersoncooper)
December 13, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
CNN says Anderson Cooper's Twitter account was hacked after a since-removed tweet from his handle called the president a "tool" and a "pathetic loser" following Democrat Doug Jones win in Alabama's Senate election.
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Bitfinex
December 12, 2017
Bitfinex is forced to shut down its ongoing operations after suffering a series of non-stop DDoS attacks.
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Midland Memorial Hospital
December 12, 2017
Midland Memorial Hospital announces a data security incident involving a limited number of patients' personal information after an unauthorized third party may have obtained access to an employee's e-mail account on or about Oct. 10.
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National Capital Poison Center
December 11, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
National Capital Poison Center reports a ransomware incident.
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Rose McGowan
December 11, 2017
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[ leak, hack ]
Another round of "The Fappening". Hackers leak alleged nude pics and sex tape of "Charmed" star Rose McGowan.
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Pinterest
December 11, 2017
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[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Pinterest notifies users of suspicious activity due to attackers trying to compromise accounts using 'credential stuffing' (credentials obtained from other breaches).
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Jeffree Star
December 10, 2017
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[ hack, leak, insider ]
Jeffree Star is the victim of a data hack, after a member of staff at cosmetics store Sephora allegedly hacks into her account and leaks sensitive information about his spending habits.
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Perth Airport
December 10, 2017
A Vietnamese man, Le Duc Hoang Hai, is arrested for stealing sensitive security details and building plans from Perth Airport after breaking into its computer systems. The hack happened in March last year, and was carried on using the credentials of a third-party contractor.
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PetFlow
December 9, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In December 2017, the pet care delivery service PetFlow suffered a data breach which consequently appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace. Almost 1M accounts were impacted and exposed email addresses and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "nano@databases.pw".
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Israel
December 8, 2017
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[ leak, hack, government ]
In name of #OpIsrael and #OpUSA, hacktivists from the Anonymous Collective leak online names, emails, and passwords of Israeli public employees and share a list of US government sites to target, calling on action against them.
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Road Sign near North Central Expressway in Dallas
December 8, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
A traffic sign near North Central Expressway in Dallas is hacked and defaced with an obscene message against the President of United States Donald Trump and his voters.
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Village of Nashotah
December 7, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Village of Nashotah pays an unidentified hacker a $2,000 ransom to decrypt its computer system after a hack in late November.
