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Pakistan
August 3, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
An Indian hacker going by the online handle of Ne0-H4ck3r defaces the official government portal of Pakistan (Pakistan.gov.pk), leaving a deface page along with a message and a patriotic Indian song.
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Coinmama
August 3, 2017
In August 2017, the crypto coin brokerage service Coinmama suffered a data breach that impacted 479k subscribers. The breach was discovered in February 2019 with exposed data including email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as MD5 WordPress hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by white hat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
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Chrome Web Store Account for Web Developer
August 2, 2017
The Chrome Web Store Account for Web Developer, a popular extension, is compromised via a phishing trick, and pushes adware to millions.
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Big Screen in Cardiff's Queen Street
August 1, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
A big screen in Cardiff's main shopping street, Queen Street, is reportedly hacked with images of swastikas and messages about 'Shariah' appearing.
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Chinese Telecom Firm
August 1, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Kaspersky Lab Q2 2017 DDoS Intelligence Report reveals the details of a DDoS attack launched against a Chinese Telecom Firm, lasting for 11 days.
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Kaleida Health
August 1, 2017
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Kaleida Health notifies 2,789 patients about a phishing incident that happened on May 24.
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Taringa
August 1, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2017, news broke that Taringa had suffered a data breach exposing 28 million records. Known as "The Latin American Reddit", Taringa's breach disclosure notice indicated the incident dated back to August that year. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords.
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Wix
July 31, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Website-building service Wix.com reveals to have been the subject of a massive cyber-attack in April 2016 when a botnet of rogue Chrome extensions was creating Wix websites to spread itself to new users.
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Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL)
July 31, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
The author of the BrickerBot malware claims responsibility for a cyber-attack that took place in various Indian states and causes over 60,000 modems and routers to lose Internet connectivity.
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Mandiant
July 31, 2017
A Mandiant threat intelligence analyst is the victim of Operation #LeakTheAnalyst. Attackers infiltrate his computer for more than a year and leak some internal data.
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HBO
July 31, 2017
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
HBO joins the ranks of Hollywood entertainment companies to suffer a major cyber attack. The company network is compromised and the attackers claim to have stolen 1.5 TB of data. Few days after they leak an episode of the new season of Games of Thrones.
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Copyfish Chrome Web Store Account
July 31, 2017
Phishers hack Copyfish, an extension for Google Chrome, after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software and abusing it to distribute spam messages to unsuspecting users.
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Equifax
July 29, 2017
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[ financial, technology ]
Equifax, reveals to have been hit by a data breach that could potentially affect 143 million consumers in the United States. The breach was discovered on July 29th.
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Plastic Surgery Associates
July 29, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Plastic Surgery Associates reveals that a data breach may have compromised patient records after it was hit with a ransomware attack earlier this year on 12 February.
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Women's Health Care Group of PA (WHCGPA)
July 29, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Women's Health Care Group of PA (WHCGPA) reveals to have been hit by ransomware on May 16, 2017. 300,000 patient records are affected.
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CIA
July 28, 2017
WikiLeaks publishes three new alleged CIA hacking tools as part of its new Vault 7 dump.
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WestJet
July 28, 2017
WestJet says it is working with police in Calgary and the RCMP cybercrime unit after some members' profile data were disclosed online.
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Macron Campaign
July 27, 2017
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[ espionage, social, government ]
Reuters reveals that Russian intelligence agents attempted to spy on President Emmanuel Macron's election campaign earlier this year by creating phony Facebook personas.
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Virgin America
July 27, 2017
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[ hack ]
Virgin America confirms that a hacker broke into its corporate network earlier this year on March 13.
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MALL.cz
July 27, 2017
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[ leak, brute-force, retail ]
In July 2017, the Czech Republic e-commerce site MALL.cz suffered a data breach after which 735k unique accounts including email addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords were later posted online. Whilst passwords were stored as hashes, a number of different algorithms of varying strength were used over time. All passwords included in the publicly distributed data were in plain text and were likely just those that had been successfully cracked (members with strong passwords don't appear to be included). According to MALL.cz, the breach only impacted accounts created before 2015.
