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Nepal Department of Transportation
August 17, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Avian and the Nepal Cyber Army hack the Nepal Department of Transportation (eproc.dor.gov.np) and dump 8,300 records with usernames and clear text passwords.
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Unknown Organization
August 17, 2015
NetPirates AKA @TheNetShip hack The Hope Institute (makehope.org) and dump about 6000 usernames and hashed passwords (they claim to have retrieved an additional 5000 records).
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Clayton Valley Charter High School
August 17, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
A hacker purportedly associated with the Anonymous collective claims to have hacked the Clayton Valley Charter High School and sends several internal documents via email.
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Embassy of Azerbaijan in Russia
August 15, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
A hacker going with the handle of Mr.H4rD3n defaces the official website of the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Russia (azembassy.ru).
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MyVidster
August 15, 2015
In August 2015, the social video sharing and bookmarking site MyVidster was hacked and nearly 20,000 accounts were dumped online. The dump included usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords.
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University of Virginia
August 14, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
The University of Virginia announces to have been hit by a cyber attack allegedly originating from China.
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City of Henderson
August 14, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
A computer hacker broke into a city of Henderson Web server and had access to data for nine days before being detected. However the city declared that no personal or sensitive information was compromised.
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Fred's Inc.
August 14, 2015
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[ financial, hack, malware ]
Fred's Inc. confirms that an unauthorized person gained access to two servers that process payment card data placing a malicious software capable of copying the payment card data.
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Michigan Football Facebook page
August 12, 2015
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[ hack, phishing, education ]
The University of Michigan's most popular Facebook pages: Michigan Football, Michigan Basketball, and Michigan Athletics are hacked by an unknown user that posts malicious messages.
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OneBookShelf
August 12, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
OneBookShelf, the operator of websites that sell games and comics as PDFs and print-on-demand publications, notifies customers that it suffered a hacker attack that obtained some credit card information.
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Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transportation
August 10, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
A group of Mexican hacktivists affiliated with the Anonymous collective defaces the website of the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transportation (mexicoconectado.gob.mx) in retaliation for the murder of the Mexican photojournalist Rub n Espinosa.
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Boqueirao Bus Station
August 8, 2015
Hackers infiltrate the travel information video screens at a Brazilian bus station in the southern city of Curitiba, and replace arrival and departure times with hard-core porn.
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The Employment Agents Movement (TEAM)
August 8, 2015
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[ leak ]
TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement), the largest network of independent recruiters in the UK, is hit by a Saudi Arabian hacker that goes by the online handle JM511. The attacker dumps 1296 records.
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Carphone Warehouse Affiliates
August 8, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, retail ]
The personal details of up to 2.4 million customers may have been accessed after a division of Carphone Warehouse was hit by a cyber attack. It also appears that a smokescreen DDoS attack was utilised to hide the attack.
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American Airlines Group Inc.
August 7, 2015
American Airlines Group Inc., the world's biggest carrier, announces that an investigation is ongoing to verify whether the same attackers who targeted Sabre had entered its computers.
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Dr. Carlos Figeuroa
August 7, 2015
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[ hack, malware, government ]
The Associated Press shows evidence that some Ecuadorean opposition activists were hacked by Ecuador's domestic intelligence agency, with software tailor-made by Hacking Team. The only named victim is Dr. Carlos Figeuroa.
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Sabre Corporation
August 7, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
Sabre Corp., which processes reservations for hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotels, confirm that its systems were breached recently. The company was probably hacked as part of the same wave of attacks that targeted insurer Anthem Inc. and the U.S. military.
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Unknown Organization
August 7, 2015
A couple of hackers dubbed PH1K3 and z0x hack Hemmakvall.se (a Swedish video store chain) and dump the details of approximately 47,000 users.
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StoryBird
August 7, 2015
In August 2015, the storytelling service StoryBird suffered a data breach exposing 4 million records with 1 million unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, usernames and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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ICANN
August 6, 2015
ICANN, the organisation which oversees the Internet's Domain Name System, reveals to have fallen victim to a hacker attack during which the details (emails and hashed passwords) of users who had created profiles on the organisation's public website were exposed.
