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Kenya Electoral Commission IT System
August 9, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Kenya opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga claims the electoral commission's IT system has been hacked to manipulate the election results.
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Three major banks in Hungary
August 8, 2017
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[ social, phishing, finance ]
The National Bank of Hungary reveals that hackers have been targeting three major banks in Hungary with a slew of phishing attempts.
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Development Foundation of Armenia
August 7, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Turkish hackers continue to target Armenian websites. The list of the targets involved in the latest spree of attacks includes the official website of the Development Foundation of Armenia and the official website of the Civil Service Council of Armenia.
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Government of Venezuela website
August 7, 2017
A hacking collective called The Binary Guardians defaces roughly 40 Venezuelan websites including those of the government, the Supreme Court and the legislature.
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Ukrposhta (Ukraine National Postal Service)
August 7, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The website for Ukraine's national postal service Ukrposhta was recently taken down by DDoS attacks for two days in a row, Interfax reports.
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Steve Weichert Twitter Account
August 7, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Steve Weichert, a politician running for District 17's State Senate Seat in the 2018 election reveals that his Twitter account has been hacked. The alleged attackers post pornographic content.
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Surgical Dermatology Group
August 6, 2017
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Surgical Dermatology Group notifies patients after its cloud hosting and server management provider TekLinks discovers a security breach dating back to March 23, 2017.
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Ariana Grande Instagram account
August 4, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
Ariana Grande is the latest celebrity that gets hacked. This time her Instagram account is hacked.
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Pakistan
August 3, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
An Indian hacker going by the online handle of Ne0-H4ck3r defaces the official government portal of Pakistan (Pakistan.gov.pk), leaving a deface page along with a message and a patriotic Indian song.
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Coinmama
August 3, 2017
In August 2017, the crypto coin brokerage service Coinmama suffered a data breach that impacted 479k subscribers. The breach was discovered in February 2019 with exposed data including email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as MD5 WordPress hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by white hat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
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Chrome Web Store Account for Web Developer
August 2, 2017
The Chrome Web Store Account for Web Developer, a popular extension, is compromised via a phishing trick, and pushes adware to millions.
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Big Screen in Cardiff's Queen Street
August 1, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
A big screen in Cardiff's main shopping street, Queen Street, is reportedly hacked with images of swastikas and messages about 'Shariah' appearing.
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Chinese Telecom Firm
August 1, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Kaspersky Lab Q2 2017 DDoS Intelligence Report reveals the details of a DDoS attack launched against a Chinese Telecom Firm, lasting for 11 days.
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Kaleida Health
August 1, 2017
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Kaleida Health notifies 2,789 patients about a phishing incident that happened on May 24.
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Taringa
August 1, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2017, news broke that Taringa had suffered a data breach exposing 28 million records. Known as "The Latin American Reddit", Taringa's breach disclosure notice indicated the incident dated back to August that year. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords.
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Wix
July 31, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Website-building service Wix.com reveals to have been the subject of a massive cyber-attack in April 2016 when a botnet of rogue Chrome extensions was creating Wix websites to spread itself to new users.
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Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL)
July 31, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
The author of the BrickerBot malware claims responsibility for a cyber-attack that took place in various Indian states and causes over 60,000 modems and routers to lose Internet connectivity.
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Mandiant
July 31, 2017
A Mandiant threat intelligence analyst is the victim of Operation #LeakTheAnalyst. Attackers infiltrate his computer for more than a year and leak some internal data.
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HBO
July 31, 2017
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
HBO joins the ranks of Hollywood entertainment companies to suffer a major cyber attack. The company network is compromised and the attackers claim to have stolen 1.5 TB of data. Few days after they leak an episode of the new season of Games of Thrones.
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Copyfish Chrome Web Store Account
July 31, 2017
Phishers hack Copyfish, an extension for Google Chrome, after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software and abusing it to distribute spam messages to unsuspecting users.
