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The Wall Street Journal
July 23, 2014
W0rm hacks the Wall Street Journal and offers data for sale for 1 bitcoin.
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Metro newspaper
July 23, 2014
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
The United States website of the Metro newspaper (metro.us), which serves an estimated 1 million visitors every month, is compromised and abused to distribute malware.
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Vice
July 22, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
W0rm hacks vice.com and accesses a list of CMS users. Hacked data includes email addresses and hashed passwords.
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Insanelyi
July 22, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2014, the iOS forum Insanelyi was hacked by an attacker known as Kim Jong-Cracks. A popular source of information for users of jailbroken iOS devices running Cydia, the Insanelyi breach disclosed over 104k users' emails addresses, user names and weakly hashed passwords (salted MD5).
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BigBoss repository
July 21, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
BigBoss repository, one of the biggest and most popular repositories for jailbreak tweaks in Cydia, has reportedly been hacked by either an individual or a group of hackers going by the name of Kim Jong-Cracks'.
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Kenyan Defence Forces
July 21, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The Twitter accounts of the Kenyan Defence Forces (@kdfinfo) and its spokesman are hacked by activists claiming to be affiliated to Anonymous (Anon_0x03), to protest against corruption.
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Indexeus
July 19, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
Indexeus.org, the search engine containing a database of stolen usernames and passwords is defaced by a group called Pernicious Developers.
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Dennis East International
July 18, 2014
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[ hack, retail ]
Dennis East International (DEI) reports that its website (hosted by an external company Omeganet) experienced two recent security breaches.
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Dominion Resources
July 17, 2014
About 1,700 people in the employee wellness program for Virginia-based Dominion Resources are notified that their personal information was accessed by an attacker who gained entry to the systems of a subcontractor, Onsite Health Diagnostics.
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Israeli Channel 10
July 17, 2014
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[ hack ]
Al-Qassam Brigades claim responsibility for the hack of the satellite feed of Israeli-based Channel 10 for a few minutes to broadcast images of wounded civilians and propaganda messages directed at Israeli citizens.
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AECOM
July 16, 2014
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[ insider ]
AECOM notifies its employees of an intrusion resulting in the exposure of personal information of past and present employees.
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Haaretz
July 15, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration ]
Again, in the name of OPSaveGaza, AnonGhost defaces a sub-domain of Israel's largest and oldest newspaper Haaretz against Israeli bombing over Gaza, Palestine.
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Goodwill Industries
July 14, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Goodwill Industries is the latest victim of the PoS Breach spree. Stores on 21 states report traces of card frauds.
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CNET
July 14, 2014
A Russian hacker group calling itself W0rm claims to have penetrated CNET's website stealing a database of registered reader data (1 million users). Hackers demand 1 bitcoin.
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Israeli Defense Contractors
July 14, 2014
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[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Brian Krebs reveals that three Israeli defense contractors responsible for building the Iron Dome missile shield were compromised by a well-crafted phishing attack and robbed of huge quantities of sensitive documents pertaining to the shield technology.
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Boeing
July 13, 2014
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[ hack, manufacturing ]
The US Department of Justice announces that a Chinese businessman, Su Bin, has been charged with hacking into the computer systems of Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other aerospace companies.
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PharmaNet
July 11, 2014
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[ insider, healthcare ]
1,600 names, dates of birth, phone numbers, addresses, and personal health numbers are accessed by an unauthorized individual using a doctor's PharmaNet account.
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The Houstonian Hotel
July 10, 2014
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[ financial ]
More than 10,000 customers are notified of six-month payment card breach at The Houstonian Hotel.
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Froco Fresh Frozen
July 10, 2014
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[ hack, retail ]
The website for Farrah Abraham's new frozen yogurt shop is hacked, and its homepage replaced with a graphic clip from her sex tape.
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Penn State College of Medicine
July 10, 2014
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[ leak, malware, education ]
1176 Penn State College of Medicine alumni's Social Security numbers might have been compromised after malware was found on a university computer.
