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Argyle school district
January 25, 2017
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[ social, phishing, education ]
Argyle school district warns its workers that their W-2 tax forms were lost in a phishing attack.
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County websites of the Wisconsin Democratic Party
January 24, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Websites of the Democratic Party in the Wisconsin area are hacked by alleged Russian Hackers.
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Lloyds Bank
January 23, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The Financial Times reveals that Lloyds Bank has been targeted by a large scale DDoS attack over the past two weeks. Two crooks claims responsibility for the attack.
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WCHQ 100.9 FM
January 23, 2017
Crescent Hill Radio WCHQ 100.9 FM, a popular, non-profit radio station in Louisville, Kentucky is hacked to play an anti-Trump song for almost 15 minutes by interrupting regular programming.
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New York Times Video Twitter Account (@nytvideo)
January 23, 2017
OurMine hacks the Twitter account of New York Time Video (@nytvideo) and posts fake news.
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Tipton County Schools
January 23, 2017
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[ social, phishing, education ]
Tipton County Schools are hit by a phishing scam aimed to steal employees' personal W-2 forms.
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XP Investimentos SA
January 23, 2017
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[ hack, finance ]
Hackers who stole data from 29,000 clients of XP Investimentos SA allegedly tried to get the Brazilian independent securities firm to pay 22.5 million reais ($7.1 million) to keep the security breach secret.
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BBC Northampton Twitter account (@BBCNorthampton)
January 21, 2017
The BBC Northampton Twitter account (@BBCNorthampton) is hacked and reports the false news that Donald Trump had been shot.
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Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center
January 21, 2017
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[ leak, malware, education ]
A malware infection is to blame for a security breach that could put the personal information of up to 4,611 clients of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center in jeopardy.
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Racingpulse
January 21, 2017
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[ ransomware, hack, malware ]
A popular horse racing website (Racingpulse.in) is hacked with ransomware.
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Sundance Film Festival
January 21, 2017
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[ hack, entertainment ]
The box office and other systems at the Sundance Film Festival are shut down by hackers.
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www
January 21, 2017
Sc0rp10nGh0s7 from the Shad0w Security crew breaks into the servers of the National Aids Research Institute NARI (India) and claims to have accessed a more than 1 GB archive containing the results of dozens HIV tests.
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Bowlmor AMF
January 20, 2017
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[ leak ]
Bowlmor AMF, the world's largest bowling center operator, says that it had a possible data breach at 21 of its more than 300 domestic locations in 12 states between Feb. 4 and March 19.
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St. Louis Public Library
January 20, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
St. Louis Public Library is hit by a ransomware attack. Attackers demand $35,000 worth in Bitcoin.
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SwordFantasy
January 20, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
In January 2019, the now defunct MMO and RPG game SwordFantasy suffered a data breach that exposed 2.7M unique email addresses. Other impacted data included username, IP address and salted MD5 password hashes.
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CrimeAgency vBulletin Hacks
January 19, 2017
In January 2016, a large number of unpatched vBulletin forums were compromised by an actor known as "CrimeAgency". A total of 140 forums had data including usernames, email addresses and passwords (predominantly stored as salted MD5 hashes), extracted and then distributed. Refer to the complete list of the forums for further information on which sites were impacted.
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POPEYES
January 18, 2017
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
CCC Restaurant Enterprises, LLC, doing business as POPEYES, announce that a recent data security incident may have compromised the security of payment information of some customers who used debit or credit cards at 10 Restaurant locations between May 5, 2016 and August 18, 2016.
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College students across the United States
January 18, 2017
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center publishes an alert against a scam tricking college students into depositing fraudulent checks into their bank accounts.
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Advanced Flexible Composites Inc.
January 17, 2017
The computer system of Advanced Flexible Composites Inc. is hacked preventing the firm from processing quote requests or orders and from receiving emails.
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Laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal
January 17, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
The Korea Times reveals the details of an attempt made by oversea attackers to hack into a laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal.
