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Campaign website of Hillary Clinton
November 7, 2016
According to security firm Flashpoint, hackers tried to cripple the campaign websites of US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, employing the Mirai botnet.
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Tesco Bank
November 7, 2016
Tesco Bank is the victim of "a systematic, sophisticated attack" targeting 9,000 customers who have money stolen from their account. The total cost of the attack is GBP 2.5 M (USD 3M).
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Two properties in the city of Lappeenranta
November 7, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, energy ]
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack halted heating distribution in at least two properties in the city of Lappeenranta, located in eastern Finland. In both of the events the attacks disabled the computers that were controlling heating in the buildings.
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WikiLeaks
November 7, 2016
WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing platform managed by Julian Assange, suffers a "targeted" DDoS attack, less than 24 hours after releasing over 8,000 fresh emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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Unknown Organization
November 7, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous claim to have shut down part of Scotland Yard's website (content.met.police.uk) for eight hours in revenge for dozens of arrests during the annual Million Mask March on parliament in London.
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Embassys of India in Romania
November 6, 2016
Seven domains of Indian Embassies in Europe and Africa have been hacked and published by Kapustkiy & Kasimierz L on Pastebin (South Africa, Libya, Italy, Switzerland, Malawi, Mali, Romania).
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Indian Embassy - Mali
November 6, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Indian Embassy websites across seven countries.
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Paraguay Embassy in Taiwan
November 6, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Paraguay Embassy in Taiwan.
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East Baton Rouge Parish School System
November 6, 2016
The top business manager for the East Baton Rouge Parish school system falls victim of a phishing email fraud, wiring $46,500 to someone who claimed via email to be Superintendent Warren Drake, even though the man himself was working in an office next door.
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Indian Embassy in New York
November 6, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Indian Embassy in New York.
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Sam's Club
November 5, 2016
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
Wholesale retail giant Sam's Club has reset passwords for thousands of customers (14,600 email addresses and plain-text passwords) after their account details were posted online.
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Sentinel Hotel
November 4, 2016
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[ financial, retail ]
Sentinel Hotel announces to have taken action to investigate and address an incident affecting payment card data at the hotel's front desk.
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City of El Paso
November 2, 2016
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[ financial, phishing, government ]
The City of El Paso is "robbed" of about $3 million intended for the streetcar project, when a person or group pretending to be a vendor scammed the city by using a phishing attack.
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Pace University
November 2, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
An Arizona man is arrested on charges that he hacked into over 1,000 email accounts for students and others at two universities, including Pace University in New York, and tried to do the same at 75 other higher-education institutions.
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New Zealand Nurses Organization
November 2, 2016
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
New Zealand Nurses Organization notifies 47,000 members of a breach after a spear phishing campaign.
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Business Insider
November 2, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
The collective called OurMine post and edited some stories on the US version of the website.
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PageGroup
November 1, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
UK-based global recruitment firm PageGroup confirms that an alleged lone hacker broke into its network and illegally accessed job applicants' personal information. The data breach occurred when the hacker infiltrated a development server run by Capgemini.
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Raqqa Telegram Channel
November 1, 2016
Hackers claiming to be associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) claim to have shut down the Telegram channel belonging to a Syrian activist group reporting out of Raqqa.
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SubaGames
November 1, 2016
In November 2016, the game developer Suba Games suffered a data breach which led to the exposure of 6.1M unique email addresses. Impacted data also included usernames and passwords, most of which appeared circulating in the breached file in plain text after being cracked from salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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City of Duluth
October 31, 2016
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[ social, phishing, government ]
More than 55,000 Duluth residents receive letters informing them that voter registration lists and other personal information may have been exposed as a result of an email phishing attack at city hall.
