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Michelle Obama
September 22, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
An image purported to be a scanned copy of U.S. first lady Michelle Obama's passport is leaked online alongside personal emails said to belong to a low-level White House staffer who worked with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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Yahoo!
September 22, 2016
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) confirms that a copy of certain user account information was stolen by a state-sponsored actor from the company's network in late 2014. The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.
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Peachthree Orthopedic Clinic
September 22, 2016
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[ hack, healthcare ]
Peachthree Orthopedic Clinic warns its users to have been hacked on September 22, even if some evidences suggests the hack could have happened several months earlier.
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Ethereum
September 22, 2016
Ethereum, a public blockchain-based decentralised computing platform for the cryptocurrency Ether is targeted by a DDoS attack on its network, causing all mining activities to slow down.
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H&L Australia
September 20, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Hackers claim to have hacked Australian point-of-sale technology (PoS) company H&L Australia, and offer the database for sale. They were already offering it for sale for AU$22,000 ($16,580, 12,723) more than two months ago.
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justformen[.]com
September 20, 2016
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
The website for Just For Men, a company that sells various products for men is compromised to serve malware to its visitors.
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modaco
September 20, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Modaco.com, a UK-based forum dedicated to the Android operating system is breached, with nearly 800,000 usernames and passwords stolen by hackers. The attack dates back to January 2016.
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Saint Francis Health System
September 19, 2016
Saint Francis Health System acknowledges the hack of 6,000 names and addresses.
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Unknown Organization
September 18, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are knocked offline by yet another denial-of-service (DDoS) attack claimed by hacking group PoodleCorp.
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American Muslim Leadership Council
September 17, 2016
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[ hack ]
A hacker going by the name MuslimLeets (aka Muj4hida) defaces the American Human Rights Council (AHRC) and 62 other websites, leaving a message calling for jihad.
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SS&C Technologies
September 16, 2016
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[ financial, social, phishing ]
SS&C Technologies, falls victim to China-based hackers who sent fake emails to company staffers in order to trick them into releasing client money, according to a complaint.
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St. Francis Health System
September 14, 2016
St. Francis Health System is hacked and the data is sold on the Dark Web for 24 BTC (14,500 USD, 11,000 GBP, 13,000 EUR).
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World Anti-Doping Agency
September 14, 2016
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[ hack, espionage ]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that a suspected Russian hacking group illegally accessed its "administration and management system" - known as "Adams" and stole troves of sensitive data on athletes. Among those targeted are Serena and Venus Williams.
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Empireminecraft
September 14, 2016
Empireminecraft notifies its users of the compromise of one of the staff member's email account. As a result the attacker was able to access confidential information.
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ClixSense
September 13, 2016
Plaintext passwords, usernames, e-mail addresses, and other personal information for more than 2.2 million people who created accounts with ClixSense are published online. The attackers claim to release additional 4.4 million accounts.
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Unknown Organization
September 11, 2016
A group of cyber criminals defaces the official website of Bremerton Housing Authority (bremertonhousing.org) and demands $4,000 as ransom.
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QIP
September 10, 2016
QIP.ru is the latest organization to join the list of companies hit by mega breaches. A hacker dubbed daykalif dumps a trove of 33 million accounts.
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Leet
September 10, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
In August 2016, the service for creating and running Pocket Minecraft edition servers known as Leet was reported as having suffered a data breach that impacted 6 million subscribers. The incident reported by Softpedia had allegedly taken place earlier in the year, although the data set sent to HIBP was dated as recently as early September but contained only 2 million subscribers. The data included usernames, email and IP addresses and SHA512 hashes. A further 3 million accounts were obtained and added to HIBP several days after the initial data was loaded bringing the total to over 5 million.
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VoIPTalk
September 9, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Telephony provider VolPtalk may have been hit by hackers. The firm discreetly informs customers about a potential data breach and request to reset their passwords as a precautionary measure.
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Almelo
September 9, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Hackers steal 22 gigabytes of data from municipal servers in Almelo.
