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BBC Northampton Twitter account (@BBCNorthampton)
January 21, 2017
The BBC Northampton Twitter account (@BBCNorthampton) is hacked and reports the false news that Donald Trump had been shot.
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Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center
January 21, 2017
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[ leak, malware, education ]
A malware infection is to blame for a security breach that could put the personal information of up to 4,611 clients of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center in jeopardy.
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Racingpulse
January 21, 2017
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[ ransomware, hack, malware ]
A popular horse racing website (Racingpulse.in) is hacked with ransomware.
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Sundance Film Festival
January 21, 2017
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[ hack, entertainment ]
The box office and other systems at the Sundance Film Festival are shut down by hackers.
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www
January 21, 2017
Sc0rp10nGh0s7 from the Shad0w Security crew breaks into the servers of the National Aids Research Institute NARI (India) and claims to have accessed a more than 1 GB archive containing the results of dozens HIV tests.
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Bowlmor AMF
January 20, 2017
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[ leak ]
Bowlmor AMF, the world's largest bowling center operator, says that it had a possible data breach at 21 of its more than 300 domestic locations in 12 states between Feb. 4 and March 19.
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St. Louis Public Library
January 20, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
St. Louis Public Library is hit by a ransomware attack. Attackers demand $35,000 worth in Bitcoin.
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SwordFantasy
January 20, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
In January 2019, the now defunct MMO and RPG game SwordFantasy suffered a data breach that exposed 2.7M unique email addresses. Other impacted data included username, IP address and salted MD5 password hashes.
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CrimeAgency vBulletin Hacks
January 19, 2017
In January 2016, a large number of unpatched vBulletin forums were compromised by an actor known as "CrimeAgency". A total of 140 forums had data including usernames, email addresses and passwords (predominantly stored as salted MD5 hashes), extracted and then distributed. Refer to the complete list of the forums for further information on which sites were impacted.
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POPEYES
January 18, 2017
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
CCC Restaurant Enterprises, LLC, doing business as POPEYES, announce that a recent data security incident may have compromised the security of payment information of some customers who used debit or credit cards at 10 Restaurant locations between May 5, 2016 and August 18, 2016.
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College students across the United States
January 18, 2017
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center publishes an alert against a scam tricking college students into depositing fraudulent checks into their bank accounts.
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Advanced Flexible Composites Inc.
January 17, 2017
The computer system of Advanced Flexible Composites Inc. is hacked preventing the firm from processing quote requests or orders and from receiving emails.
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Laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal
January 17, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
The Korea Times reveals the details of an attempt made by oversea attackers to hack into a laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal.
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Channel One
January 17, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
Russian state television Channel One blames hackers for the leak online of the final episode of the BBC drama Sherlock a day before its actual planning.
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Supercell
January 17, 2017
Supercell Forum is hacked and 1.1 million accounts are leaked. The breach allegedly took place in September 2016.
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MrExcel
January 16, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
MrExcel.com reveals that its forum has been compromised on the morning of December 6, 2016.
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Sentara Healthcare
January 16, 2017
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[ leak, healthcare ]
A cyber security breach at a third party vendor for Sentara Healthcare compromises the records of over 5,000 patients.
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Three Indian banks
January 16, 2017
Three Indian Banks discover that their SWIFT systems have been compromised to create fake documents.
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Barts Health Trust
January 16, 2017
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[ hack, healthcare ]
Barts health trust, which runs five hospitals in east London: the Royal London, St Bartholomew's, Whipps Cross, Mile End and Newham, is hit by a cyberattack.
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Dracut Public Schools
January 15, 2017
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[ hack, phishing, education ]
Current and former employees' personal information, including SSN, is acquired by a hacker after an employee falls for what the district describes as a "sophisticated phishing scheme."
