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AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance)
April 12, 2017
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[ leak, education ]
Data relating to 64,000 current and former examiners stored on some of AQA's online systems are stolen by attackers, including examiners' name, address, personal phone numbers, and passwords.
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Youku
April 12, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
A dark web vendor going by the handle of CosmicDark sells a database containing 100,759,591 user accounts stolen from of Youku Inc., a popular video service in China.
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Melbourne IT
April 12, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Australian ISP Melbourne IT confirms that it was hit by "a large DDoS attack" that disrupted its web hosting.
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NSA
April 12, 2017
The Shadow Brokers dump a new collection of files, containing what appears to be exploits and hacking tools targeting Microsoft's Windows OS and evidence the Equation Group had gained access to servers and targeted the SWIFT banking system of several banks.
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eConcordia
April 11, 2017
Concordia's online course systems, eConcordia and KnowledgeOne, are hacked, 9000 users are compromised.
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Union Bank of India
April 11, 2017
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[ hack, finance ]
North Korean hackers are suspected of attempting to steal $170m from Union Bank of India, back in 2015.
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Sierra Tel
April 10, 2017
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
The Bricker Bot takes down the Zyxel HN-51 Modem belonging to Sierra Tel, a Californian ISP.
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Amazon third-party sellers
April 10, 2017
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[ hack, phishing, retail ]
Amazon third-party sellers, are hit repeatedly by hackers who post fake deals on legitimate sellers' pages.
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Wonga
April 9, 2017
Over 250,000 Wonga customers are affected by a data breach. The payday lender says it is investigating 'illegal and unauthorised access' to some of its customers' personal information in both Britain and Poland. Stolen data may include account numbers, sort codes, addresses and the last four digits of users' bank cards. Around 245,000 customers in the UK and 25,000 in Poland may have been affected.
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NSA
April 8, 2017
The Shadow Brokers (TSB) are back, and release the password for the rest of the hacking tools they claim to have stolen from the NSA last year.
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Sirens in Dallas
April 8, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
A computer hack sets off all the emergency sirens in Dallas for about 90 minutes.
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University of Louisville
April 7, 2017
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[ hack, education ]
Tax information for dozens of University of Louisville employees is compromised after a hack of the online system the university uses to give employees access to tax documents.
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Gamestop
April 7, 2017
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
Video game giant GameStop Corp says it is investigating reports that hackers may have siphoned credit card and customer data from its website gamestop.com.
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Internal Revenue Service
April 6, 2017
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[ government, hack, social ]
The Internal Revenue Service says that the personal data of as many as 100,000 taxpayers could have been compromised through a scheme in which hackers posed as students using an online tool to apply for financial aid.
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National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC)
April 6, 2017
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[ espionage, government ]
Fidelis Cybersecurity reveals that ahead of the trade summit between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, a nation-state hacking group conducted espionage on a number of key industry players and lobbyists with links to the talks.
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Anonymous
April 5, 2017
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[ espionage, technology ]
Anonymous members who want to participate in this year's annual #OpIsrael cyber-attacks are the targets of an intelligence gathering operation carried out by an unknown threat actor.
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Defense Integrated Data Center
April 5, 2017
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[ hack, espionage, government ]
North Korean hackers have reportedly accessed OPlan 5027, the secretive war-plans drawn up by South Korea and the United States, detailing how the allied military forces would respond to the outbreak of war in the region " including first strike targets and troop deployments.
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Unnamed Russian bank
April 4, 2017
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[ financial, malware, finance ]
Kaspersky reveals the details of ATMitch, a fileless malware used to steal cash from ATMs. The researchers have only tracked down two incidents where ATMitch was used. The first is in a Russian bank.
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Unnamed Brazilian bank
April 4, 2017
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[ hack, phishing, finance ]
Kaspersky reveals that on October 2016, a group of hackers rerouted all the traffic of an unnamed Brazilian bank's customers to perfectly reconstructed fakes of the bank's properties.
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ABCD Pediatrics
April 4, 2017
While investigating ransomware incident, ABCD Pediatrics uncovers evidence of other intrusion: more than 55,000 patients are notified.
