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Lifeboat Minecraft Community
April 26, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Over seven million user accounts belonging to members of Minecraft community "Lifeboat" are hacked.
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RWE Gundremmingen plant
April 26, 2016
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[ hack, malware, energy ]
A nuclear power plant in Germany is found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet.
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Goldcorp
April 26, 2016
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[ leak, energy ]
Hackers breach Goldcorp and leak a 14.8 GB torrent containing personal information.
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Qatar National Bank
April 25, 2016
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[ leak, finance ]
Documents purporting to be from the Qatar National Bank are leaked on a file-sharing site Cryptome.org. According to Cryptome, the leaked file contains more than 15,000 documents detailing more than 100,000 accounts with passwords and PINs.
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The Grand Sierra Resort
April 25, 2016
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
The Grand Sierra Resort is the latest hospitality entity to disclose a data breach involving customers' credit card information. In this case, there appear to be two time frames during which cards used at their food and retail locations may have been compromised; for a one-month period in 2014 and again during a 5-month period in 2015.
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BeautifulPeople
April 25, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
Forbes reveal that unknown hackers were able to hack Beautifulpeople.com and leak the personal details of 1.1M members.
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Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL)
April 25, 2016
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[ ransomware, malware, energy ]
The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) announces last week a cyber-attack that partially shut down some of its services following what looks like an unconfirmed ransomware incident.
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Spotify
April 25, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials, including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details, appears on Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible hack. The company, asked, denies the incident.
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Ku Klux Klan
April 24, 2016
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[ hack, ddos ]
Hackers from Ghost Squad take down the website of Ku Klux Klan.
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Besa Hitman-for-Hire Service
April 23, 2016
bRpsd hacks the Dark Web portal of the Albanian mafia group called Besa, and dumps the data online, exposing their hitman-for-hire service.
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Unknown Organization
April 22, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Members of the New World Hackers (NWH), one of Anonymous' divisions, launch a DDoS attack against the city of Denver's website (denvergov.org)
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Unknown Organization
April 22, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration ]
United Cyber Caliphate defaces the website of the Lamont Christian Reformed Church in the city leaving a pro-Jihadi message.
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UK Ministry of Defence
April 22, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Up to 831 members of Britain's defence community with high-level security clearances had their personally identifying information stolen when the Ministry of Defence's business networking organisation was hacked earlier in November 2015.
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Foodora
April 22, 2016
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[ leak, retail ]
In April 2016, the online food delivery service Foodora suffered a data breach which was then extensively redistributed online. The breach included the personal information of hundreds of thousands of customers from multiple countries including their names, delivery addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as either a salted MD5 or a bcrypt hash.
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Bizmatics
April 21, 2016
A spree of data breaches affect Florida's Palm Beach County Health Department, Wisconsin's Oneida Health Center, Arkansas' Pain Treatment Centers of America (PTCOA), and Interventional Surgery Institute (ISI) and expose more than 23,000 patients' personal information.
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Archdiocese of Denver
April 21, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Archdiocese of Denver notifies 18,000 individuals to have discovered a breach happened on November 2015 after an unauthorized person accessed an Archdiocese of Denver database maintained by a third-party.
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Mario Patrn
April 20, 2016
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Mario Patrn, the director of Centro PRODH, a Mexican human rights and legal aid organization.
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Ain Shams University
April 19, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker hacks the Staff Management Portal of the Ain Shams University (staff.asu.edu.eg) and dumps 2,280 records.
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ADP
April 19, 2016
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[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Identity thieves steal tax and salary data from payroll giant ADP by registering accounts in the names of employees at more than a dozen customer firms. ADP says the incidents occurred because the victim companies all mistakenly published sensitive ADP account information online.
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Reyes & Barsoum L.L.P.
April 19, 2016
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[ hack, finance ]
A group of California workers claim in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally broke into their lawyers' database and stole over 32,000 confidential workers comp files.
