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Yulia Stepanova's WADA Account
August 13, 2016
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that hackers appear to have accessed the online account of Russian athletics doping whistleblower Yulia Stepanova.
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World Anti-Doping Agency
August 12, 2016
A collective associated with the Polish branch of the Anonymous hacks the servers of the World Anti-Doping Agency and Court of Arbitration for Sport (tas-cas.org) and dumps a 412MB file which contains 3,121 unique email accounts along with their passwords.
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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
August 12, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
Guccifer 2.0 leaks a fresh batch of documents, memos and passwords, this time from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). They include a spreadsheet of congressional contacts' phone numbers and email addresses, internal memos and what purports to be documents stolen from the computer of Nancy Pelosi.
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LinkedIn
August 11, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A new lawsuit reveals that data thieves used a massive botnet against LinkedIn to steal members' personal information via information scraping by fake profiles.
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PAR Technology
August 11, 2016
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[ financial, malware, technology ]
Forbes reveals that the Carbanak Gang also breached 5 more cash registers providers.
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swimming
August 11, 2016
Swimming.org.au, the Swimming Australia's website is hit by a DDoS attack in the wake of Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton's comments about his Chinese competitor Sun Yang being a drug cheat.
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Unreal Engine
August 11, 2016
In August 2016, the Unreal Engine Forum suffered a data breach, allegedly due to a SQL injection vulnerability in vBulletin. The attack resulted in the exposure of 530k accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
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Epic Games
August 11, 2016
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In August 2016, the Epic Games forum suffered a data breach, allegedly due to a SQL injection vulnerability in vBulletin. The attack resulted in the exposure of 252k accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
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Anderson County
August 10, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Anderson County government officials and the sheriff's office investigate a possible computer security breach (a "potential system-wide breach" of the main courthouse server) involving 1,800 people.
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Texas family
August 10, 2016
A Texas mother realizes that someone hacked into a webcam positioned in her two daughters' bedroom and streamed their private goings-on live online for thousands to watch.
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Unknown Organization
August 9, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Millions of Australian citizens hoping to take part in the country's first ever digital census are left frustrated after the website used to complete the survey is taken down by a DDoS attack.
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Brant County Health Unit
August 9, 2016
Brant County Health Unit reveals that an unauthorized person gained access to the immunization records of nearly 500 people between July 2015 and October 2015.
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MICROS
August 8, 2016
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[ financial, malware, technology ]
The Carbanak Gang appears to have compromised a customer support portal for companies using Oracle's MICROS point-of-sale credit card payment systems, and used that access to steal administrative credentials and implant malicious code on 700 terminals.
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Cross Fire
August 8, 2016
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[ hack, leak ]
In August 2016, the Russian gaming forum known as Cross Fire (or cfire.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 12.8 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
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Пара Па
August 8, 2016
In August 2016, the Russian gaming site known as (or parapa.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 4.9 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
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Quora account of Zach Klein
August 7, 2016
The official Twitter and Quora account of Zach Klein, co-founder of video-sharing website Vimeo are hacked by the OurMine collective.
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michaelphelps
August 7, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
New World Hackers claim responsibility for taking down the personal website of Michael Phelps.
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Wishbone (2016)
August 7, 2016
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[ hack, social, technology ]
In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults.
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Alexa Losey Twitter Account
August 6, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
The OurMine collective hacks the Twitter account of popular Youtuber Alexa Losey.
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Three Brazilian businessmen
August 5, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
In the second phase of their operation, Anonymous Brazil claims to have leaked personal details of Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Minister of Sport, President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and three businessmen who are allegedly involved in corruption.
