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AXA Insurance
September 7, 2017
AXA Insurance sends out an email to some customers informing that the personal data of 5,400 customers in Singapore has been stolen due to a cyber attack.
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Moneycontrol
September 7, 2017
In April 2021, hackers posted data for sale originating from the online Indian financial platform, Moneycontrol. The data included 763 thousand unique email addresses (allegedly a subset of a larger 40 million account breach), alongside geographic locations, phone numbers, genders, dates of birth and plain text passwords. The date of the original breach is unclear, although the breached data indicates the file was created in September 2017 and Moneycontrol has stated that the breach is "an old data set".
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lzinios.lt
September 6, 2017
Ghostwriter, a suspected Belarus-backed hacking group, has compromised websites and email accounts in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland'to publish fabricated documents pushing anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) narratives consistent with Kremlin talking points. The influence campaign started in 2017.
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Catholic United Financial
September 6, 2017
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[ hack, finance ]
An unknown attacker accesses nearly 130K accounts at Catholic United Financial. The attack happened on September 6th.
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cpjobs
September 5, 2017
Online jobs platform cpjobs.com reports an unauthorised third-party attack on the website, compromising the security of user data. Impacted pages are shut down and all users' passwords are deactivated.
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Community Memorial Health System
September 5, 2017
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
The Community Memorial Health System sends out a notice regarding a data security breach involving patient information after a phishing attack happened on June 23.
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West Australian TAFE
September 5, 2017
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[ hack, education ]
An attacker infiltrates the systems of a West Australian TAFE on August 28 and September 5 and accesses the sensitive personal details of staff and more than 13,000 students.
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Julia Kloeckner Website
September 4, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
Julia Kloeckner, a top leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party says her website has been hit by thousands of cyber attacks -- many from Russian IP addresses -- ahead of the television election debate between Merkel and her opponent, Social Democratic leader Martin Schulz.
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Verrit
September 4, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Verrit, a political fact-checking site is DDoSed almost immediately after it was endorsed by Hillary Clinton.
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Taringa
September 4, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
LeakBase, a breach notification service, obtains a copy of the hacked database of Taringa, a social network popular in Latin America, containing details on 28,722,877 accounts, which includes usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords.
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Canoe
September 2, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
The free news and entertainment portal Canoe.ca, operated by MediaQMI Inc. and owned by Sun Media Corp. prior to 2015, wishes to inform users that some of its databases containing records from the period of 1996 to 2008 have been breached.
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Google
September 1, 2017
The Google Cloud team revealed a previously undisclosed DDoS attack that targeted Google service back in September 2017 and which clocked at 2.54 Tbps, making it the largest DDoS attack recorded to date.
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Unknown Organization
September 1, 2017
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[ leak, government, healthcare ]
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services reveals to have suffered a security breach in July that may have disclosed personal information of individuals who have interacted with the Office of Children's Services.
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Hand Rehabilitation Specialists
September 1, 2017
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[ hack, healthcare ]
Hand Rehabilitation Specialists notifies patients of a possible hack by The Dark Overlord that occurred back in July.
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Purdue University Pharmacy
September 1, 2017
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Patients of the Purdue University Pharmacy and the Family Health Clinic of Carroll County receive notices that their information might be compromised because of a security breach. A malicious file was installed on some computers on September 1st.
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TrueStresser
September 1, 2017
A dissatisfied customer breaches the server of TrueStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service, pilfering its database, and leaking some of the content online.
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TGBUS
September 1, 2017
In approximately 2017, it's alleged that the Chinese gaming site known as TGBUS suffered a data breach that impacted over 10 million unique subscribers. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes and was provided with support from dehashed.com. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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WikiLeaks
August 31, 2017
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[ hack ]
WikiLeaks' website appears to have been hacked by the OurMine collective.
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Central German state of Saxony-Anhalt
August 31, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Internet and telephone networks at the regional parliament in the central German state of Saxony-Anhalt are offline after a ransomware attack.
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Free Online File Converter
August 31, 2017
An anonymous researcher reveals that the server hosting dozens of free-to-use online file conversion websites, including combinepdf.com, imagetopdf.com, jpg2pdf.com, pdftoimage.com, pdfcompressor.com, and wordtojpeg.com, has been hacked several times in the past year.
