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National Informatics Center
July 9, 2014
The Indian NIC is compromised to issue fake digital certificates. Google immediately revokes them.
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Office of Personnel Management
July 9, 2014
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
The New York Times reports that in March, Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees (the Office of Personnel Management).
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Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
July 6, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The website of Myanmar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology is hacked, with the hackers replacing two government seals with turtles alluding to the country's slow internet connection.
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Israel Defense Forces
July 4, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army hacks the Twitter account and official blog of the Israel Defence Forces (@IDFSpokeperson) and posts a fake tweet related to a possible nuclear leak to the 300,000 account followers.
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Gateway Savings and Loans Limited
July 4, 2014
Nigerian Police investigates a multi-million fraud by unknown hackers, reportedly hacking into Ogun State-owned mortgage bank, Gateway Savings and Loans Limited, and stealing millions of Naira.
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Total Bank
July 3, 2014
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[ hack, finance ]
Total Bank notifies its users following a compromise of the institution's computer network.
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DailyMotion
July 3, 2014
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Symantec reveals that the popular video sharing Dailymotion was compromised to redirect users to the Sweet Orange Exploit Kit.
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Finnish Foreign Ministry
July 2, 2014
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[ espionage, government ]
Finland admits to have been attacked by hackers working for one or several foreign nations who stole a "remarkable" number of files over a period of several years.
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Houston Astros
July 1, 2014
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[ hack, espionage ]
The systems of the Houston Astros baseball team are accessed by an unauthorized person, who extracted content revealing internal trade talks.
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PoliceOne
July 1, 2014
In February 2017, the law enforcement website PoliceOne confirmed they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 700k accounts which appeared for sale by a data broker and included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes. The file the data was contained in indicated the original breach dated back to July 2014.
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Butler University
June 30, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
Personal and financial information of some 163,000 students, alumni, faculty, staff, and past applicants of Indianapolis-based Butler University have been stolen following a hack of the university's computer network.
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Privatbank
June 30, 2014
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[ hack, finance ]
Hackers from the Green Dragon Crew hack Privatbank, the bank owned by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi.
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Tails OS
June 30, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
The official website of the Tails live operating system is defaced. The author of the hack, dubbed Sum Guy, claims to have done it by accident.
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Armenian President Website
June 28, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
On the day of the celebration of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani hackers from Anti-Armenia Team deface the official website of the Armenian President and other government sites.
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University of California Washington Center
June 26, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
The University of California, Washington Center (UCDC) notifies alumni of a breach involving their course pre-enrollment system. The attack targeted UCDC's cloud-based provider, GoSignMeUp.com.
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Official Portal for Manila, Philippines
June 25, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Two Turkish hackers going with the handle of VirtuaL & DARKWAR2 deface the official web portal of Manila City, Philippines (manila.gov.ph) with anti-America, anti-Israel and anti-Saudi Arabia images.
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Splash Car Wash
June 25, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
1,400 customer credit card details are stolen by hackers from Splash Car Wash exploiting a pcAnywhere vulnerability on point of sale terminals.
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Cryptome
June 25, 2014
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Whistle-blowing site Cryptome is left temporarily unavailable after its service provider NetSol stops routing traffic towards the site following the discovery of a suspect and probably malicious PHP file.
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Directorate General Public Relations, Government of the Punjab
June 25, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Again a defacement to protest against police brutality. Hackers of the Team Pak Cyber Experts deface the official website of Directorate General Public Relations, Government of the Punjab (dgpr.gop.pk).
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Undisclosed video game company
June 24, 2014
Incapsula unveils the details of a DDoS attack against an unnamed Video Games company, achieving a peak of 90 million requests for second.
