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Unknown Organization
November 16, 2016
Confidential personal records of over 34 million residents in the Indian state of Kerala are compromised, when an Indian man living in Tokyo posts them on Facebook after the Indian government failed to address security flaws in website.
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Three unnamed firms in the hospitality sector
November 15, 2016
Trustwave researchers spot the Carbanak cybergang using a new socially engineered trick to spread point-of-sale (POS) malware to businesses in the hospitality industry.
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FIFA Ultimate Team
November 14, 2016
Anthony Clark is charged by the Northern Texas District Court with a count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud for his role in a scheme to automatically generate and then resell the digital coins used to purchase perks in FIFA Ultimate Team on the PlayStation and Xbox.
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Michigan State University
November 13, 2016
Michigan State University announces that a university server and a database containing information on some 400,000 faculty, staff and students has been accessed by an unauthorised third party.
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AdultFriendFinder Networks
November 13, 2016
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[ leak, hack ]
Here we are again: adult dating and entertainment company FriendFinder Networks has reportedly been hacked in a massive data breach exposing more than 412 million accounts and user credentials collected over two decades.
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24luv
November 12, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
The hacktivist known as ElSurveillance is back with its operation #EscortsOffline and two more data dumps from two dating sites: 24luv.com (92,937 users' email addresses and plain-text passwords) and freedateusa.com (127,395 email addresses and plain-text passwords).
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Windham County Sheriff's Office
November 12, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
CyberZeist announces that the Windham County Sheriff's Office has been hacked, and dumps the entire database with 300 records of personnel.
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A&M LLC
November 11, 2016
A&M LLC announces that a recent data security incident may have compromised the security of payment information of some customers who used debit or credit cards at Annie Sez, Afaze, Mandee, Sirens and Urban Planet locations between November 24, 2015 and August 23, 2016.
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Casino Rama Resort
November 10, 2016
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[ hack, malware ]
Casino Rama Resort issues a warning to its customers and employees after a hacker claimed to have stolen over a decades' (from 2004 to 2016) worth of sensitive information from its computer networks " including payroll data and social insurance numbers.
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National Crime Agency
November 9, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The UK's National Crime Agency public web site is briefly taken down by a DDoS attack.
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Bank of Moscow
November 8, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
A hacker called vimproducts claims to have taken down several Russian banks including the Moscow Exchange, the Bank of Moscow, Rosbank, and Alfa-Bank.
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Unknown Organization
November 8, 2016
CyberZeist claims to have breached the Alaskan Elections Results website (elections.alaska.gov) and dumps a screenshot, the server IPs and the username/password combination.
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YouTube account of Theo Ogden
November 8, 2016
In a cyber-attack coordinated by an alleged jealous teenager, the YouTube account of Theo Ogden (a popular video channel with 200 videos, 20,000 subscribers and 1.6 million views), is deleted permanently.
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Campaign website of Hillary Clinton
November 7, 2016
According to security firm Flashpoint, hackers tried to cripple the campaign websites of US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, employing the Mirai botnet.
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Tesco Bank
November 7, 2016
Tesco Bank is the victim of "a systematic, sophisticated attack" targeting 9,000 customers who have money stolen from their account. The total cost of the attack is GBP 2.5 M (USD 3M).
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Two properties in the city of Lappeenranta
November 7, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, energy ]
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack halted heating distribution in at least two properties in the city of Lappeenranta, located in eastern Finland. In both of the events the attacks disabled the computers that were controlling heating in the buildings.
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WikiLeaks
November 7, 2016
WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing platform managed by Julian Assange, suffers a "targeted" DDoS attack, less than 24 hours after releasing over 8,000 fresh emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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Unknown Organization
November 7, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous claim to have shut down part of Scotland Yard's website (content.met.police.uk) for eight hours in revenge for dozens of arrests during the annual Million Mask March on parliament in London.
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Embassys of India in Romania
November 6, 2016
Seven domains of Indian Embassies in Europe and Africa have been hacked and published by Kapustkiy & Kasimierz L on Pastebin (South Africa, Libya, Italy, Switzerland, Malawi, Mali, Romania).
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Indian Embassy - Mali
November 6, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Indian Embassy websites across seven countries.
