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Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
June 6, 2017
APT28 has targeted the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with phishing emails by spoofing a NATO email address.
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A US voting software supplier
June 5, 2017
A new report reveals that Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to 122 local election officials just days before last November's presidential election.
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BTC-E
June 5, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
BTC-E.com, the popular Bitcoin and Litecoin exchange platform is the target of a DDoS Attack.
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Exposed VINs
June 5, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In June 2017, an unsecured database with more than 10 million VINs (vehicle identification numbers) was discovered by researchers. Believed to be sourced from US car dealerships, the data included a raft of personal information and vehicle data along with 397k unique email addresses.
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Steve Harvey's Funderdome
June 4, 2017
The Dark Overlord, which recently leaked ten episodes of Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" makes a resurgence, releasing on the Pirate Bay a selection of eight episodes from ABC's upcoming network television show "Steve Harvey's Funderdome".
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Hotels
June 3, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
Hotels.com sends an email to some customers advising that their username, password, email address, and the last four digits of stored credit card numbers were potentially stolen last month (between may 22 and 29).
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Stanford University Subdomain
June 1, 2017
For almost four months, one of Stanford's subdomains (Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University) has been compromised and used for hosting web shells, mailers, and other types of web malware.
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University of Alaska
June 1, 2017
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[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing scam in December 2016 resulted in a data breach at the University of Alaska, affecting around 25,000 students, staff and faculty members.
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Good Choice (hotel reservation app)
June 1, 2017
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
Hackers suspected of breaching a popular South Korean mobile app and stealing the personal data of more than 990,000 are arrested by local police in Korea.
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OneLogin
May 31, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
OneLogin reveals the details about an attack on its systems, confirming that a "threat actor" has accessed database tables including "information about users, apps, and various types of keys." The attacker was been able to rifle through OneLogin's infrastructure for seven hours.
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Kmart
May 31, 2017
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
For the second time in less than three years, Kmart Stores suffers a malware-based security breach of its store credit card processing systems.
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Qnect
May 31, 2017
Qnect, a Sydney startup has its customer data stolen with the hackers threatening to publish the information unless bitcoins are paid out.
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Liverpool One Shopping Centre
May 30, 2017
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[ hack, retail ]
Liverpool One shopping centre is forced to shut down a slew of digital billboards after an unknown hacker tampers with the signage.
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Old Mutual
May 30, 2017
Financial services company Old Mutual has notified its customers of a data breach, after it detected unauthorised entry to one of its systems which led to some personal customer information being accessed.
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Augusta University
May 28, 2017
A phishing attack hits Augusta University faculty email accounts containing the health information of patients.
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Fast Health
May 28, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
Fast Health reports a security breach that could affect over 700 of their patients, when a third-party altered a code on their server, stealing the credit card information of close to 700 customers who paid bills online from January 14, 2016 to December 20, 2016.
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Prairie Mountain Health
May 27, 2017
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[ hack, healthcare ]
The personal and medical information of more than 1,000 Prairie Mountain Health patients are at risk after an internal website is hacked.
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Wooster-Ashland Regional Council of Governments
May 26, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
The Wooster-Ashland Regional Council of Governments computer network is hacked and more than 200,000 records in are compromised.
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Ismael Borquez
May 26, 2017
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Ismael Borquez, the director of R Doce and a colleague of Javier Valdez. Valdez was killed in May 2017 and was investigating organized crime in the state of Sinaloa.
