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Alpha Payroll Services
May 2, 2016
Alpha Payroll Services notifies that an employee has fallen victim of a phishing scam targeting clients' 2015 employee W-2 information.
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majorgeeks
May 1, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
270,000 reccords from majorgeeks.com appear on the dark web.
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GameVN
May 1, 2016
In May 2016, the Vietnamese gaming forum GameVN suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. Data breached from the XenForo-based forum included 1.4M unique email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
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Black Lives Matter
April 30, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Ghost Squad, one of the Anonymous subdivisions carrying out DDoS attacks against KKK members, launch similar attacks against the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Gryphon Technologies
April 30, 2016
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[ social, phishing, technology ]
Gryphon Technologies joins the list of the companies falling victim to W-2 phishing scams.
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3,600 New York residents
April 29, 2016
A group of hackers linked to the Islamic State releases a hit list of thousands of New York residents, urging the militant group's followers to target them.
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Brunswick Corp.
April 29, 2016
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[ phishing, manufacturing ]
Brunswick Corp. is the last victim of a spear phishing scam that allows the attackers to steal W-2 information for possibly all 13,000 current and former company employees.
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Maisto
April 29, 2016
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[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
The website belonging to Maisto International, a popular maker of remote-controlled toy vehicles, is caught pushing ransomware.
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17 (an app particularly popular in Asia)
April 29, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A hacker advertises a cache of 20,000 email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app '17', which is particularly popular in Asia.
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Laremy Tunsil Twitter account
April 29, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Laremy Tunsil, a college football player has his Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked.
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Solano Community College
April 28, 2016
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[ social, phishing, education ]
Solano Community College is hit with a spearphishing attack leading to the W-2 information for about 1,200 staffers being compromised.
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Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (mfa.go.ke)
April 27, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
Anonymous In Kenya, leaks a trove of 1TB data from the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Lucky Pet
April 27, 2016
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[ leak, retail ]
LuckyPet notifies the California State Attorney General's office of a data breach that compromised online customer information.
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The Pirate Bay
April 27, 2016
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[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Malwarebytes identifies a malvertising campaign on The Pirate Bay, distributing the Cerber Malware via the Magnitude Exploit Kit. The attackers took advantage of the leak of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.
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Lifeboat Minecraft Community
April 26, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Over seven million user accounts belonging to members of Minecraft community "Lifeboat" are hacked.
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RWE Gundremmingen plant
April 26, 2016
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[ hack, malware, energy ]
A nuclear power plant in Germany is found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet.
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Goldcorp
April 26, 2016
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[ leak, energy ]
Hackers breach Goldcorp and leak a 14.8 GB torrent containing personal information.
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Qatar National Bank
April 25, 2016
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[ leak, finance ]
Documents purporting to be from the Qatar National Bank are leaked on a file-sharing site Cryptome.org. According to Cryptome, the leaked file contains more than 15,000 documents detailing more than 100,000 accounts with passwords and PINs.
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The Grand Sierra Resort
April 25, 2016
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
The Grand Sierra Resort is the latest hospitality entity to disclose a data breach involving customers' credit card information. In this case, there appear to be two time frames during which cards used at their food and retail locations may have been compromised; for a one-month period in 2014 and again during a 5-month period in 2015.
