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Entergy
February 12, 2018
Entergy notifies employees of a W-2 breach involving the TALX portal (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equifax). The breach involves 2016 W-2 data.
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Idaho Transportation Department (ITD)
February 12, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
A hack of two email accounts at the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) potentially exposes the personal information of commercial truckers whose rigs are registered in Idaho, including Social Security and credit card numbers.
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Florida Virtual School
February 12, 2018
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[ leak, education ]
In March 2018, the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) posted a data breach notification to their website. The school had identified a data breach which had occurred sometime between 6 May 2016 and 12 Feb 2018 and an XML file containing 368k student records was subsequently found circulating. Each record contained student name, date of birth, password, grade, email and parent email resulting in a total of 543k unique email addresses. Due to the prevalence of email addresses belonging to individuals who are still legally children, the data breach has been flagged as "sensitive".
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BitGrail
February 10, 2018
Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail reports a loss of 17 million Nano, valued at over $170 million at the time of the hack. However, conflicting reports surface with some believing the exchange to be insolvent for a number of months.
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Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
February 10, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizers confirm that the Games had fallen victim to a cyber attack during Friday's opening ceremony, but they refused to reveal the source. US intelligence the attack was carried by Russia while trying to make it appear as though North Korea was responsible.
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Newtek Business Services Corp.,
February 10, 2018
Newtek Business Services Corp., a Web services conglomerate that operates more than 100,000 business Web sites and some 40,000 managed technology accounts, has several of its core domain names stolen over the weekend.
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Mikaela Hoover
February 8, 2018
The Fappening scandal continues even in 2018, and Guardians of the Galaxy actress Mikaela Hoover appears to be the most recent victim.
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Undisclosed water utility company
February 8, 2018
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[ financial, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Radiflow discover the first example of a malware attacking the operational network of a water utility company in order to mine the Monero cryptocurrency,
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Decatur County General Hospital
February 8, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons, Tenn., publicly discloses that an unauthorized party accessed the server for its electronic medical record system and secretly implanted cryptomining malware.
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Nova Poshta
February 7, 2018
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[ leak ]
Personal data of 500,000 Nova Poshta clients, the largest private delivery company in Ukraine, is allegedly leaked to dark web.
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Smith Dental
February 7, 2018
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Smith Dental notifies of a ransomware attack affecting 1,500 patients.
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City of Enumclaw
February 7, 2018
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[ social, phishing, government ]
The city of Enumclaw accidentally sends an email to an "individual pretending to be a member of City administration" and compromises the W-2s of hundreds of employees.
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Business Wire
February 7, 2018
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Press release network Business Wire admits suffering an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack lasting a week.
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Swisscom
February 7, 2018
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[ leak, technology ]
Swisscom, the biggest telecom company in Switzerland, suffers a data breach that resulted in the compromise of personal data of some 800,000 customers, i.e., nearly ten percent of the entire Swiss population. The breach dates back to Autumn 2017.
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The Sacramento Bee
February 7, 2018
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[ ransomware, information ]
The Sacramento Bee deletes two databases hosted by a third party after a ransomware attack exposed the voter records of 19.5 million California voters and 53,000 current and former subscribers to the newspaper.
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Italian Democratic Party (PD)
February 6, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
The AnonPlus hacker group says they have hacked the Florence branch of the Italian centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and leaked data regarding leader Matteo Renzi online.
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Province of Milan
February 6, 2018
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[ hack, government ]
The same hackers also claim to have hacked the website of Provincia di Milano (Province of Milan) in Italy.
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Waldo County
February 5, 2018
A phishing attack compromised the information of 100 Waldo County employees.
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Partners HealthCare System
February 5, 2018
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Partners HealthCare System reveals to have discovered a malware attack, occurred in May, 2017 that may have exposed 2,600 patients' information.
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University of Northern Colorado
February 5, 2018
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[ hack, education ]
The private information of 12 University of Northern Colorado employees is compromised after an "unknown person or group" accessed their profiles on Ursa, UNC's online portal.
