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Wishbone App
March 15, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
Hackers steal 2.2 million email addresses and 287,000 cellphone numbers from popular teen quiz App Wishbone users, many of whom are young women under the age of 18.
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Statistics Canada
March 14, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
The Canadian government confirms that the Statistics Canada website is hacked and taken offline for over two days. In the aftermath of the cyberattack parts of the Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) site is also reportedly taken offline by authorities as a precaution.
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Mountain Home Water Department
March 14, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The servers of Mountain Home Water Department fall victim to a ransomware attack.
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Master Deeds
March 14, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In March 2017, a 27GB database backup file named "Master Deeds" was sent to HIBP by a supporter of the project. Upon detailed analysis later that year, the file was found to contain the personal data of tens of millions of living and deceased South African residents. The data included extensive personal attributes such as names, addresses, ethnicities, genders, birth dates, government issued personal identification numbers and 2.2 million email addresses. At the time of publishing, it's alleged the data was sourced from Dracore Data Sciences (Dracore is yet to publicly confirm or deny the data was sourced from their systems). On 18 October 2017, the file was found to have been published to a publicly accessible web server where it was located at the root of an IP address with directory listing enabled. The file was dated 8 April 2015.
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Welsh NHS
March 13, 2017
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Details of thousands of medical staff of Welsh NHS are stolen from a private contractor's computer server (Landauer). The breach happened in October 2016 and the total number of affected staff is 4,766.
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fifthharmony
March 12, 2017
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[ hack ]
A Kurdish hacker going by the online handle of "Rekan Error" defaces the official website of Fifth Harmony, an American girl group formed on the second season of The X Factor US in July 2012 and posts messages against ISIS and Turkey.
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Queensland School Photography
March 9, 2017
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[ financial, education ]
Queensland School Photography emails students' parents to notify that payment card information has been compromised.
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GMO Payment Gateway Inc
March 9, 2017
GMO Payment Gateway confirms data leakage from two client websites, due to the Apache Struts vulnerability. The victims are the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and the Japan Housing Finance Agency. The total leaked records are more than 700,000.
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Ster-Kinekor
March 9, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In 2016, the South African cinema company Ster-Kinekor had a security flaw which leaked a large amount of customer data via an enumeration vulnerability in the API of their old website. Whilst more than 6 million accounts were leaked by the flaw, the exposed data only contained 1.6 million unique email addresses. The data also included extensive personal information such as names, addresses, birthdates, genders and plain text passwords.
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Verifone
March 7, 2017
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[ hack, finance ]
Credit and debit card payments giant Verifone investigates a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of companies running its point-of-sale solutions.
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Center for American Progress
March 6, 2017
New reports reveal that Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks. According to the report, at least a dozen groups have faced extortion attempts since the U.S. presidential election. The ransom demands are accompanied by samples of sensitive data in the hackers' possession.
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University of Idaho
March 6, 2017
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[ social, phishing, education ]
University of Idaho notifies 257 employees after a phishing incident.
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Henok Gabisa
March 6, 2017
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.
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Advertisement board in Mexico City
March 4, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
A digital advertisement board owned by Grupo Carteleras located on a busy road in Mexico City is hacked on Friday and features a pornographic video for a few minutes.
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Pennsylvania Senate Democrats
March 3, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Pennsylvania Senate Democrats are hit by a ransomware attack that locks senators and employees out of their computer network.
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Radio Station WZZY-FM
March 2, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
Radio station WZZY-FM falls victim to a prank when hackers access its computer systems and begin broadcasting fake news alerts of a zombie attack, along with a disease outbreak caused by the resulting carnage.
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Unknown Organization
March 2, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, retail ]
South Korea's Lotte Duty Free website (lottedfs.com) is taken down by a DDoS attack orchestrated from a Chinese IP.
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Daytona State College
March 2, 2017
Daytona State College notifies staff of a potential W-2 incident.
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Kennesaw State University
March 1, 2017
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[ hack, education ]
The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of a Kennesaw State University server.
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Aptos
March 1, 2017
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[ financial, malware, technology ]
Shoppers of 40 online stores have had their bank card numbers and addresses stolen by a malware infection at backend provider Aptos late last year.
