Recent Breaches
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May 13, 2016 • Avention, investigate data breaches affecting personal information of its employees.
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May 13, 2016 • In name of OpIcarus, the Anonymous claim to have taken down the internal email server of the Bank of England.
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May 13, 2016 • SWIFT confirms a new attack in which attackers managed to illegally transfer funds from a member bank by using its system. Further details, including the bank name are revealed two days after. The victim is the Tien Phong Bank in Vietnam.
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May 13, 2016 SonnySpooks hacks fijilive.com and dumps 91,460 usernames and hashed passwords.
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May 13, 2016 • New World Hackers (NWH), one of the hacking crews participating in the Anonymous #OpAfrica campaign, leak data obtained after hacking and then defacing the website of the University of Limpopo from the town of Polokwane, South Africa.
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May 12, 2016 Personal information on dozens of Chinese Communist Party officials and captains of industry is exposed on Twitter from an account under the name shenfenzheng. The victims include Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma, Tencent Holdings Ltd. Chairman Ma Huateng, Xiaomi Corp. co-founder Lei Jun, Dalian Wanda Group Co. founder Wang Jianlin and Sany Heavy Industry Co. Chairman Liang Wengen. Officials targeted included the governor of a major province.
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May 12, 2016 • 65 million passwords of Tumblr are on sell on the underground. The company admitted to have suffered a breach on May 12.
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May 12, 2016 • The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Sebastin Barragn, a reporter with Aristegui Noticias.
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May 12, 2016 • An unnamed porn forum is hacked and details of 100,000 members leaked.
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May 11, 2016 • Security Researchers from Trend Micro reveal that Pawn Storm, one of the oldest APTs engaging in cyber espionage, is targeting members of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the political party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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May 11, 2016 • South Korea points the finger to North Korea after Hanjin Heavy Industries, a navy defence contractor, is hacked.
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May 11, 2016 • Hackers breach the computer network of a doctors' group in Katy, potentially accessing more than 60,000 medical records and personnel files.
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May 11, 2016 • The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Stephanie Brewer, a staff member at Centro PRODH, a Mexican human rights and legal aid organization.
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May 10, 2016 • The Utkal University portal is taken down after it is defaced.
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May 9, 2016 • UserVoice admits to have suffered a cyberattack in April which has exposed sensitive data belonging to a small subset of users with administrator or contributor status (0.001%).
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May 9, 2016 • Mayfield Brain & Spine notifies its patients of a fake email containing malware sent to them. The incident affects a total of 23,341 patients.
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May 9, 2016 • Babycare retailer Kiddicare has warned customers that personal data consisting of 795,000 records shared with the store has been stolen by hackers.
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May 9, 2016 • Cyphort Labs reveal the details of a malvertising campaign targeting PerezHilton.com
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May 9, 2016 • In May 2016, the multiplayer server for Minecraft service Shotbow announced they'd suffered a data breach. The incident resulted in the exposure of over 1 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA-256 password hashes.
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May 9, 2016 • Some time prior to May 2016, the forum known as "Rosebutt Board" was hacked and 107k accounts were exposed. The self-described "top one board for anal fisting, prolapse, huge insertions and rosebutt fans" had email and IP addresses, usernames and weakly stored salted MD5 password hashes hacked from the IP.Board based forum.