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Paraguay Embassy in Taiwan
November 6, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Paraguay Embassy in Taiwan.
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East Baton Rouge Parish School System
November 6, 2016
The top business manager for the East Baton Rouge Parish school system falls victim of a phishing email fraud, wiring $46,500 to someone who claimed via email to be Superintendent Warren Drake, even though the man himself was working in an office next door.
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Indian Embassy in New York
November 6, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Indian Embassy in New York.
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Sam's Club
November 5, 2016
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
Wholesale retail giant Sam's Club has reset passwords for thousands of customers (14,600 email addresses and plain-text passwords) after their account details were posted online.
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Sentinel Hotel
November 4, 2016
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[ financial, retail ]
Sentinel Hotel announces to have taken action to investigate and address an incident affecting payment card data at the hotel's front desk.
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City of El Paso
November 2, 2016
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[ financial, phishing, government ]
The City of El Paso is "robbed" of about $3 million intended for the streetcar project, when a person or group pretending to be a vendor scammed the city by using a phishing attack.
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Pace University
November 2, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
An Arizona man is arrested on charges that he hacked into over 1,000 email accounts for students and others at two universities, including Pace University in New York, and tried to do the same at 75 other higher-education institutions.
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New Zealand Nurses Organization
November 2, 2016
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[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
New Zealand Nurses Organization notifies 47,000 members of a breach after a spear phishing campaign.
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Business Insider
November 2, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
The collective called OurMine post and edited some stories on the US version of the website.
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PageGroup
November 1, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
UK-based global recruitment firm PageGroup confirms that an alleged lone hacker broke into its network and illegally accessed job applicants' personal information. The data breach occurred when the hacker infiltrated a development server run by Capgemini.
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Raqqa Telegram Channel
November 1, 2016
Hackers claiming to be associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) claim to have shut down the Telegram channel belonging to a Syrian activist group reporting out of Raqqa.
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SubaGames
November 1, 2016
In November 2016, the game developer Suba Games suffered a data breach which led to the exposure of 6.1M unique email addresses. Impacted data also included usernames and passwords, most of which appeared circulating in the breached file in plain text after being cracked from salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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City of Duluth
October 31, 2016
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[ social, phishing, government ]
More than 55,000 Duluth residents receive letters informing them that voter registration lists and other personal information may have been exposed as a result of an email phishing attack at city hall.
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National Health Service's Lincolnshire and Goole
October 30, 2016
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Citing a computer virus outbreak, a hospital system in the United Kingdom cancels all planned operations and diverts major trauma cases to neighboring facilities.
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Bradley Foundation
October 29, 2016
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[ leak ]
Anonymous Poland claims to have hacked the Bradley Foundation and dumps more than 30Gb data including a fake letter of a $150 million donation to Clinton's campaign.
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Vladislav Surkov
October 28, 2016
A Ukrainian group called CyberHunta claims to have hacked into the account of an assistant to presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and uploads more than 2,000 emails.
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converse
October 28, 2016
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[ financial, malware, manufacturing ]
Converse reveals that the company's Australian e-commerce site was intercepting payment details for website visitors that made purchases between Sept. 2 and Oct. 12 of this year.
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Donald Trump's Twitter account
October 27, 2016
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[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Three Dutch hackers broke into Donald Trump's Twitter account in 2016 by guessing his password was "yourefired".
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US Navy
October 27, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Hackers manage to get their hands on personal and sensitive information of over 130,000 US Navy officials after a laptop of an HPE Navy contactor is hacked. The breach was acknowledged on October 27th.
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MCBans
October 27, 2016
In October 2016, the Minecraft banning service known as MCBans suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 120k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and password hashes of unknown format. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
