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• Ravish Kuma December 9, 2016 • [ hack, social ] The Legion collective hack the Twitter accounts of Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar, two prominent journalists with Indian NDTV news channel.
• Etana Habte December 9, 2016 A threat actor targeted Ethiopian dissidents for the purpose of espionage, using commercially available spyware sold by Cyberbit, an Israel-based company. Most notably, the actor targeted the Oromia Media Network and some individuals associated with it.
• Vijay Mallya December 9, 2016 • [ hack, leak, technology ] Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya's Twitter account appears to have been hacked. The alleged hackers hijack Mallya's account and are currently leaking the industrialist's personal and sensitive information.
• Akbank December 8, 2016 News emerges that hackers targeted Turkey's Akbank via the SWIFT global money transfer system in an attack which the bank said had not compromised customer data but would cost it up to $4 million.
• ThyssenKrupp December 8, 2016 ThyssenKrupp reveals that in February of this year, hackers infiltrated its computer systems and stealthily carried out an espionage operation that reportedly managed to avoid detection until April.
• Kagoya December 8, 2016 • [ financial, hack, technology ] Kagoya, a famous hosting service provider in Japan suffers a security breach in which the personal and financial data of its customers is stolen. In an email to their customers, Kagoya states that the attack affected about 50,000 customers who used their credit cards between April 1, 2015 and September 21, 2016.
• US law firms December 7, 2016 A series of security breaches that stuck prestigious law firms last year was more pervasive than reported and was carried out by people with ties to the Chinese government, according to evidence seen by Fortune.
• Unknown Organization December 7, 2016 • [ hack, government ] Kapustkiy and Kasimierz L, hack the website of the Argentinian Ministry of Industry (Ministerio de Produccion) and expose 18,000 accounts.
• State Treasury Service of Ukraine December 6, 2016 • [ hack, malware, government ] The Website of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine redirects the users to www.whoismrrobot.com. Also, the website of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine experiences a service disruption.
• South Korean Cyber Command December 6, 2016 • [ hack, government ] North Korea appears to have hacked South Korea's cyber command in what could be the latest cyberattack against Seoul.
• Bo Shen December 6, 2016 An unknown hacker steals at least $300,000 in Augur and Ether cryptocurrency from Bo Shen, the founder of venture capital firm Fenbushi Capital, and one of the early adopters of many of today's cryptocurrencies.
• VTB December 6, 2016 • [ hack, ddos, finance ] State-Owned Russian Bank VTB reveals to have been targeted by hackers with a DDoS attack.
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School December 6, 2016 • [ hack, education ] The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School reveals that a database containing Social Security numbers and name pairs od 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-'06 was hacked last month.
• Eir Telecom December 5, 2016 • [ hack, malware, technology ] Eir warns customers that 2000 of its modems have been compromised by the Mirai botnet.
• DailyMotion December 5, 2016 • [ leak, technology ] An unknown hacker extracts 85.2 million unique email addresses and usernames from video-sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world.
• Expedia December 5, 2016 A former Expedia IT professional admits to illegally trading on secrets he discovered by hacking his own company's senior executives.
• MrExcel December 5, 2016 In December 2016, the forum for the Microsoft Excel tips and solutions site Mr Excel suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 366k accounts along with email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted passwords hashed with MD5. The owner of the MrExcel forum subsequently self-submitted the data to HIBP.
• Intercom Wireless Frequency System of McDonald's at the New Bern, N.C December 4, 2016 The Intercom Wireless Frequency System of McDonald's at the New Bern, N.C is hacked and broadcasts unexpected messages to customers.
• National Assembly of Ecuador (asambleanacional.gob.ec) December 4, 2016 • [ hack, government ] Kapustkiy breaches the National Assembly of Ecuador and leaks the data via PasteBin.
• Appalachian State University December 3, 2016 • [ leak, education ] A group called AppState Leaks releases the data of 1,768 student from Appalachian State University.