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Jabbim
January 11, 2017
The Jabbim Instant Messaging service is hacked and the database (8gb) is dumped in the dark web.
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Little Red Door Cancer Services of East Central Indiana
January 11, 2017
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[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Dark Overlord hacks the computers of an Indiana-based cancer agency and asks for a large payment of 50 Bitcoin ($44,800) not to release the data. Initially the attack seemed to have been caused by ransomware.
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Kanawha County Schools
January 11, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Kanawha County Schools tells that their internal documents have been restored after a ransomware attack.
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The Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC)
January 10, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) is forced to pay $28,000 in bitcoin after cybercriminals successfully infected its computer networks, email systems and voicemail lines with ransomware.
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Unknown Organization
January 10, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Susan M. Hughes Center notifies of a ransomware incident affecting 11,400 patients.
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Thai governmental job portal
January 10, 2017
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[ hack, leak, government ]
The Anonymous kick off another run of #OpSingleGateway and take down multiple governmental job portals, leaking personal and sensitive details of officials and job seekers.
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http://forumserver
January 9, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
The operators of the world's largest online poker discussion forum, TwoPlusTwo, confirm that the forum was hacked at some point late in 2016, with the personal data then being offered for sale.
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Sephora
January 9, 2017
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[ leak, retail ]
In approximately January 2017, the beauty store Sephora suffered a data breach. Impacting customers in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, 780k unique email addresses were included in the breach alongside names, genders, dates of birth, ethnicities and other personal information. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
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esea
January 8, 2017
Over 1.5 million user profiles featuring names, email addresses and personal IDs from the eSports Entertainment Association (Esea), a leading competitive videogame community, are leaked online after being hijacked by hackers in late December last year.
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MJ Freeway
January 7, 2017
MJ Freeway, a Denver company whose tracking software is used by hundreds of marijuana companies to comply with state regulations, says its main servers and backup system are down after a "targeted cyber attack".
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Princeton University
January 7, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Princeton University is one of the 27,000 victims that have their data wiped by attackers leveraging a vulnerable MongoDB.
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Arizona Department of Administration
January 6, 2017
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[ hack, malware, government ]
Arizona officials investigate how and when several computers used by state legislators and their staffs became infected with malware.
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Square Enix's European Twitter Account (@SQUARE_ENIX_EU)
January 6, 2017
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[ hack, social, technology ]
Video game giant Square Enix's European Twitter account is hacked by a group of hackers calling themselves the "cyberwolfgang" and posts multiple tweets mocking other companies including rival gaming company EA, media outlet TechCrunch .
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esguarnacpuntademata.mil.ve
January 6, 2017
One of the websites belonging to Venezuela's ministry of defense (esguarnacpuntademata.mil.ve) is hacked by Kapustkiy in protest of what the attacker described as the dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro in the country. The attacker leaks 2,100 accounts.
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123-Reg
January 6, 2017
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
123-Reg is the target of a DDoS attack which disrupted the company's services only days into 2017.
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University of Alberta
January 5, 2017
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[ hack, malware, education ]
The University of Alberta discloses the details of a malware attack, occurring late last year, that involved 300 computers and put over 3,000 students at risk.
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Emory Brain Health Center
January 4, 2017
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[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Emory Healthcare is one of the victims of the MongoDB ransomware attacks and has its database, managed by a third-party and containing 90,000 records, encrypted.
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google
January 4, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Kuroi'SH hjacks the DNS record of google.com.br and redirects the users to a defaced page.
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Northside Independent School District
January 4, 2017
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[ hack, phishing, education ]
The Northside Independent School District sends letters to about 23,000 former and current students and employees regarding a security breach that might have put their personal information at risk after several employees' email accounts have been compromised.
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Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission
January 2, 2017
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[ hack, government ]
A group claiming to be part of the Anonymous collective defaces the Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission website (humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au) with a nonsensical message about its social network AnonPlus.
