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Kemuri Water Company (pseudonym)
March 22, 2016
The latest Verizon Data Breach Report reveals the details of an attack against a water utility company, in which the attackers were able to infiltrate the water utility's control system and change the levels of chemicals being used to treat tap water.
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Kentucky State University
March 22, 2016
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[ social, leak, phishing ]
Kentucky State University is the victim of a BEC scam: an employee, responding to an email supposedly from the school's president, sends off the 2015 W-2s for about 1000 employees and students.
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Concordia University
March 21, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
Concordia University warns the community about a possible computer security breach.
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Norfolk General Hospital
March 21, 2016
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
THe website of the Norfolk General Hospital is hacked to spread malware to its visitors.
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Unknown Organization
March 20, 2016
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The website of EC-Council, the professional organization that administers the Certified Ethical Hacker program, is compromised to redirect the visitors to an Angler Exploit Kit landing page, where the infamous Teslacrypt ransomware is injected.
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Harry Styles
March 20, 2016
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
One Direction singer Harry Styles and his alleged girlfriend Kendall Jenner have their personal photos leaked online after iCloud account hack.
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NASA
March 20, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
AnonymousCorrupt, a group of hacktivists linked to the Anonymous claim to have taken down the nasa.gov website.
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Goteborgs Posten
March 19, 2016
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[ hack, ddos ]
A threat actor launched a denial of service attack on nine news websites in Sweden, triggering a local police investigation. U.S. diplomatic cables later revealed that the United States suspected that Russia was responsible for the incident.
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naira4dollar
March 19, 2016
Naira4dollar, a Nigerian e-currency exchange website, is the target of unknown hackers who are able to steal $15,000 worth of Bitcoins.
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Unknown Organization
March 18, 2016
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[ leak ]
In an email sent out to its over 62,000 members, USA Cycling, the official US cycling organization, warns to have suffered a "data security incident" that may have exposed members' names, mailing addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, and USA Cycling passwords.
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visit-jy
March 18, 2016
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[ hack, leak, government ]
Hacktivists from KarmaSec hack the server of Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture Tourism Promotion Division (visit-jy.com) and leak a trove of data protesting in animal cruelty in the country.
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BitQuick
March 18, 2016
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[ hack, finance ]
BitQuick announces to shut down its server following an attack that gave the attacker unauthorized administrative access. However, all funds, IDs and emails remain secured.
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Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation
March 17, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation notifies past applicants that their names, addresses and Social Security numbers may have been stolen by hackers.
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River Cree Casino
March 17, 2016
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[ hack ]
The River Cree casino says it was the victim of a "cyberattack" that resulted in the theft of customer and employee information.
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Swiss People's Party (SVP)
March 16, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
A group of hackers dubbed NSHC claims to have hacked the database of Switzerland's largest political party, the conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP) and stolen the personal data of over 50,000 people, including the names and email addresses of SVP supporters.
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Tuned Global
March 16, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, data from a number of breached services including Tuned Global were released to a public hacking forum. The breach appears to date back to 2016 and includes 985k records containing email addresses, names, a small number of physical addresses and phone numbers and passwords stored in plain text.
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LAZ Parking
March 15, 2016
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[ leak, financial, hack ]
LAZ Parking reveals that tax and revenue information for about 14,000 employees may have been stolen by an "unknown individual.
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allosambre
March 15, 2016
Metropolis hacks allosambre.com and dumps 1,535 usernames and clear text passwords.
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Bayley's
March 15, 2016
Outdoor equipment retailer Bailey's Inc. notifies its customers that an attacker may have stolen payment card information of 250,000 customers from the company website and that the length of the breach was longer than once thought (between Dec. 1, 2011 and Jan, 26, 2016).
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The City of Baltimore
March 14, 2016
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[ financial, government ]
The city of Baltimore investigates how the personal information of dozens of city employees was stolen and used to file fraudulent tax returns.
