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Norwegian Labour Party
February 3, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Norway's security service says nine email accounts including those belonging to the Labour party, the foreign ministry and defense ministry have been targeted by hackers belonging to APT29.
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Tiverton Town Council
February 3, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
John Vanderwolfe, a town clerk wipes council documents dating back to 2015 after mistakenly opening an email containing a ransomware malware.
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PoliceOne
February 3, 2017
Motherboard reveals that a hacker going with the handle of Berkut is selling a database allegedly containing over 700,000 user accounts from PoliceOne, a popular law enforcement forum.
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City of Troy
February 2, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Troy computer system is the victim of a ransomware attack.
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CD Projekt Red
January 31, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
CD Projekt Red, the Poland-based developer behind the popular 'Witcher' game and comic series, is hit with a forum hack that compromised over 1.8 million user credentials. The hack allegedly took place in March of last year.
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Czech Foreign Ministry
January 31, 2017
Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek says that hackers breached dozens of email accounts at the Czech Foreign Ministry in an attack resembling one against the U.S. Democratic Party.
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Xbox 360 ISO Forums
January 31, 2017
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[ hack, malware ]
An unidentified hacker reportedly breaches the XBOX 360 and PlayStation Portable ISO forums compromising 2.5 million gamer accounts. The breach is unconfirmed.
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Freedom Hosting II
January 31, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2017, the free hidden service host Freedom Hosting II suffered a data breach. The attack allegedly took down 20% of dark web sites running behind Tor hidden services with the attacker claiming that of the 10,613 impacted sites, more than 50% of the content was child pornography. The hack led to the exposure of MySQL databases for the sites which included a vast amount of information on the hidden services Freedom Hosting II was managing. The impacted data classes far exceeds those listed for the breach and differ between the thousands of impacted sites.
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Polish Foreign Ministry
January 30, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
The Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita reveals that the hack against the Polish Foreign Ministry that occurred in December was probably orchestrated by APT28.
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Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt
January 30, 2017
One of Europe's top hotels, Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, admits they had to pay thousands in Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack their electronic key system, locking hundreds of guests out of their rooms until the money was paid.
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DataCamp
January 30, 2017
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[ leak, education ]
In December 2018, the data science website DataCamp suffered a data breach of records dating back to January 2017. The incident exposed 760k unique email and IP addresses along with names and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
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CNN Facebook page
January 29, 2017
OurMine hacks multiple Facebook accounts of CNN, CNN International, and CNN Politics.
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WWE Universe Twitter account
January 28, 2017
OurMine hacks multiple Twitter accounts associated with the World Wrestling Entertainment group, including that of WWE Universe, WWE NXT, WWE Network, Summer Slam as well as wrestlers John Cena and Triple H. WWE Tumblr page is also compromised.
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Emsisoft
January 28, 2017
In the past week, two security firms, Dr.Web and Emsisoft, suffered DDoS attacks at the hands of cyber-criminals who attempted to bring down their websites as payback for meddling with their illegal activities.
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Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
January 27, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) investigate a computer security breach at the Australian Synchrotron that saw hackers steal scientists' usernames and passwords.
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Sunrun
January 27, 2017
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[ social, phishing, energy ]
Solar panel maker Sunrun is hit with a spearphishing attack, impersonating the CEO Lynn Jurich, that gets away with the company employee W-2 information.
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D.C. Police
January 27, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Ransomware infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump's inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts.
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Princeton Pain Management
January 27, 2017
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[ hack, healthcare ]
Princeton Pain Management is notifying 4,668 patients of a hack that was detected on November 28. Although they found no evidence that data were removed from their system, protected health information (PHI) was accessed.
