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Unknown Organization
December 7, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy and Kasimierz L, hack the website of the Argentinian Ministry of Industry (Ministerio de Produccion) and expose 18,000 accounts.
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State Treasury Service of Ukraine
December 6, 2016
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[ hack, malware, government ]
The Website of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine redirects the users to www.whoismrrobot.com. Also, the website of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine experiences a service disruption.
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South Korean Cyber Command
December 6, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
North Korea appears to have hacked South Korea's cyber command in what could be the latest cyberattack against Seoul.
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Bo Shen
December 6, 2016
An unknown hacker steals at least $300,000 in Augur and Ether cryptocurrency from Bo Shen, the founder of venture capital firm Fenbushi Capital, and one of the early adopters of many of today's cryptocurrencies.
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VTB
December 6, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
State-Owned Russian Bank VTB reveals to have been targeted by hackers with a DDoS attack.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
December 6, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School reveals that a database containing Social Security numbers and name pairs od 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-'06 was hacked last month.
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Eir Telecom
December 5, 2016
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Eir warns customers that 2000 of its modems have been compromised by the Mirai botnet.
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DailyMotion
December 5, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
An unknown hacker extracts 85.2 million unique email addresses and usernames from video-sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world.
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Expedia
December 5, 2016
A former Expedia IT professional admits to illegally trading on secrets he discovered by hacking his own company's senior executives.
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MrExcel
December 5, 2016
In December 2016, the forum for the Microsoft Excel tips and solutions site Mr Excel suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 366k accounts along with email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted passwords hashed with MD5. The owner of the MrExcel forum subsequently self-submitted the data to HIBP.
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Intercom Wireless Frequency System of McDonald's at the New Bern, N.C
December 4, 2016
The Intercom Wireless Frequency System of McDonald's at the New Bern, N.C is hacked and broadcasts unexpected messages to customers.
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National Assembly of Ecuador (asambleanacional.gob.ec)
December 4, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy breaches the National Assembly of Ecuador and leaks the data via PasteBin.
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Appalachian State University
December 3, 2016
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[ leak, education ]
A group called AppState Leaks releases the data of 1,768 student from Appalachian State University.
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catropaejb.com.ve
December 2, 2016
Kapustkiy hacks a website belonging to the Venezuelan army (catropaejb.com.ve) and exposes a total of 3,000 accounts.
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Central Bank of Russia
December 2, 2016
The Central Bank of Russia confirms that in 2016 unknown hackers stole 2 billion rubles, equivalent to $31 million from accounts of the Central Bank.
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Health Solutions
December 2, 2016
The website of Health Solutions, one of the largest diagnostic laboratories in India, is breached, with hackers accessing a database that included no less than 35,000 medical records, including HIV reports for registered patients.
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Professional football players
December 2, 2016
A group called Football Leaks dumps 1.9 terabytes of data, covering 18.6 million private documents, related to professional football players. The documents are handed over to the German publication Der Spiegel.
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Shiseido Co.
December 2, 2016
Japanese cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. says that the online store run by subsidiary IPSA Co. has suffered illegal access and that personal information on about 420,000 customers may have leaked as a result.
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Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
December 2, 2016
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[ hack, malware, finance ]
Eight Saudi institutions are hit by a destructive cyber attack allegedly generating from Iran, carried on using a new version of the infamous Shamoon Malware. Among the victims is the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the country's central bank.
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Biohack.me
December 2, 2016
In December 2016, the forum for the biohacking website Biohack.me suffered a data breach that exposed 3.4k accounts. The data included usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords along with the private messages of forum members. The data was self-submitted to HIBP by the Biohack.me operators.
