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Blockchain
October 12, 2016
The DNS server records for blockchain.info and blockchain.com are hijacked.
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Roman Dobrokhotov
October 12, 2016
Several Russian activists and independent journalists have reportedly received warnings notifying them that "government-backed" hackers may be attempting to illegally access their email inboxes.
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SWIFT
October 12, 2016
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[ financial, hack, malware ]
Symantec reveals that a second group of hackers are attempting to rob banks by targeting SWIFT users deploying the same methods that led to the Bangladesh Bank hacking heist. The tools used are linked to the Odinaff group, which since the beginning of the year, has targeted financial institutions worldwide.
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Unnamed German nuclear power plant
October 10, 2016
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[ hack, energy ]
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Yukiya Amano, a nuclear power plant became the target of a disruptive cyber attack two to three years ago.
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University of Toyama's Hydrogen Isotope Research Center
October 10, 2016
Research data and personal information may have been stolen from a personal computer belonging to a researcher of Tritium, at the University of Toyama's Hydrogen Isotope Research Center. Attackers stole data in three batches: December 2015, March 2016 and June 2016.
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GFAN
October 10, 2016
In October 2016, data surfaced that was allegedly obtained from the Chinese website known as GFAN and contained 22.5M accounts. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains email and IP addresses, user names and salted and hashed passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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Modern Business Solutions
October 8, 2016
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2016, a large Mongo DB file containing tens of millions of accounts was shared publicly on Twitter (the file has since been removed). The database contained over 58M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, names, home addresses, genders, job titles, dates of birth and phone numbers. The data was subsequently attributed to "Modern Business Solutions", a company that provides data storage and database hosting solutions. They've yet to acknowledge the incident or explain how they came to be in possession of the data.
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Pont3
October 6, 2016
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
Pont3, an Australian event organizer, reveals that an unauthorized party had gained access to its mailing list account and downloaded data about individuals that subscribed to various events organized by the company in the past.
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The Clinton Foundation
October 6, 2016
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[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
The Clinton Foundation warns donors about targeted hacking attempts to steal their personal information.
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BuzzFeed
October 5, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
OurMine hackers take control of BuzzFeed's website and alter multiple stories published on its site.
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store
October 4, 2016
Suspected Russian hackers are believed to have been skimming credit card information of Republican donors for the past six months. The NRSC is among more than 5,900 e-commerce sites victims of the same attack.
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Spotify
October 4, 2016
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Multiple users report that popular music-streaming service Spotify serves malware-laden ads.
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The Clinton Foundation
October 4, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Guccifer 2.0 posts what the hacker claims are files stolen from the Clinton Foundation, but the foundation says the assertions are not true.
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w0rm
October 2, 2016
In what is defined a "hacker drama", Peace, of the most known BlackHats defaces the forum of w0rm, another well known blackhat.
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University of Central Florida
October 1, 2016
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[ financial, malware, education ]
A malware infection is to blame for a payment card data breach affecting at least 230 University of Central Florida students.
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Pokémon Negro
October 1, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
In approximately October 2016, the Spanish Pokmon site Pokmon Negro suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of 830k accounts including email and IP addresses along with plain text passwords. Pokmon Negro did not respond when contacted about the breach.
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Large LED video screen billboard in South Jakarta
September 30, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker or a group of hackers hack into the computer system of a large LED video screen billboard in the Kebayoran Baru district of South Jakarta and replace the advertisement on the screen with pornographic content for a short period of time.
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newseasims
September 30, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
A hacker going by the handle of "Websites Hunter" hacks newseasims.com, a website that offers custom content for Sims video games from Electronic Arts, and leaks personal details of 118,000 customers/users.
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Newsweek
September 30, 2016
Newsweek suspects that Russian hackers are to blame for the crash of its website, after it published an article about Donald Trump's company secretly conducting business in Cuba in the 1990s.
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Bellingcat
September 29, 2016
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[ espionage, technology ]
ThreatConnect reveals that investigative journalism group Bellingcat, that helped to investigate the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 have been targeted in a series of sophisticated attacks by pro-Russia group Fancy Bear.
