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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.
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Unknown Organization
August 5, 2016
Accounts of employees from Apple, Intel, and Google are exposed after the website of the Khronos Group, a non-profit organization, is hacked.
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Unknown Organization
August 5, 2016
The online hacktivists of Anonymous Brazil take down several Brazilian government websites to protest against the ongoing Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Targets include: the official website of the federal government for the 2016 Games (brasil2016.gov.br), Portal of the State Government of Rio de Janeiro (rj.gov.br), Ministry of sports (esporte.gov.br), Brazil Olympic Committee COB (cob.org.br) and the official website of the Rio 2016 Olympics (rio2016.com).
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Unknown Organization
August 5, 2016
Anonymous leaked personal, financial and login details from domains like'the Brazilian Confederation of Modern Pentathlon (pentatlo.org.br), official Site of the Brazilian Handball Confederation (brasilhandebol.com.br),Brazilian Confederation of Boxing (cbboxe.com.br) and Brazilian Triathlon Confederation (cbtri.org.br).
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Brazilian Triathlon Confederation (cbtri.org.br)
August 5, 2016
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[ data leak, personal information, financial details ]
Anonymous leaked personal, financial and login details from domains like'the Brazilian Confederation of Modern Pentathlon (pentatlo.org.br), official Site of the Brazilian Handball Confederation (brasilhandebol.com.br),Brazilian Confederation of Boxing (cbboxe.com.br) and Brazilian Triathlon Confederation (cbtri.org.br).
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GTAOnline
August 4, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
And this time the PoodleCorp collective claims to have taken down the GTA (Grand Theft Auto) website.
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Islamic State forum on the dark web
August 4, 2016
Intsights, an Israeli cyber-intelligence firm, claims to have uncovered plans for future ISIS attacks after hacking into an ISIS forum the group had used in the past to plan other attacks.
