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The Candid Board
September 3, 2015
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[ hack, leak ]
In September 2015, the non-consensual voyeurism site "The Candid Board" suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 178k accounts along with email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted passwords hashed with MD5.
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Brunswick Hotel & Tavern
September 1, 2015
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[ financial, malware ]
Olympia Hotel Management, which manages Maine-based Brunswick Hotel & Tavern, notifies an undisclosed number of guests that malware was discovered on the hotel's computer systems and payment card information could be at risk (2,600 guests were impacted).
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UK National Crime Agency
September 1, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Lizard Squad takes down the official website of UK's National Crime Agency (nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk).
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Marion Bowman
August 31, 2015
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[ espionage, hack ]
Marion Bowman, a top former FBI lawyer and U.S. counterintelligence official, reveals that alleged Chinese hackers penetrated his home computer last spring.
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Emilio Aristegui
August 30, 2015
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
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 Emilio Aristegui, the son of a prominent journalist. He was a minor at the time of the targeting.
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Michigan Catholic Conference
August 29, 2015
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[ hack ]
The Michigan Catholic Conference notifies more than 10,000 employees, that their personal information has been compromised by an unknown hacker who could also have obtained their personal information.
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Utah Food Bank
August 29, 2015
Utah Food Bank notifies the donors of an access into its website by an unauthorized individual who could have gained access to personal data of more than 10,000 donors.
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http://www
August 28, 2015
NetPirates AKA @TheNetShip hack ecaytrade.com and dump about 50K usernames and hashed passwords.
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mumsnet
August 27, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mumsnet is hit by a new wave of DDoS attacks.
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UK National Health Service
August 26, 2015
www.secamblive.nhs.uk, a UK National Health Service (NHS) site on which the organisation posts patients' stories describing their experience with illness is defaced by Moroccanwolf, as an act of protest regarding Western governments' lack of humanitarian actions in Syria.
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GitHub
August 25, 2015
Code repository Github is the victim of a massive DDoS attack. The site is likely targeted because of software projects hosted on the site that have allowed Chinese Internet users to bypass the Great Firewall's packet filtering and inspection tools.
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Totally Promotional
August 24, 2015
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[ hack, financial, retail ]
Totally Promotional, an internet seller of imprinted promotional products, notifies an undisclosed number of customers that attackers forced their way into its systems and gained access to some customer payment card data and other information.
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Royal Saudi Air Force
August 23, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Mr.Xpr!, an Iranian hacker from Iran Hack Security Team defaces the official website of the Royal Saudi Air Force (http://rsaf.gov.sa).
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Auto Zone
August 23, 2015
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[ hack, retail ]
JM511 hacks AutoZonePro.com and dumps 49,967 customers' details: billing addresses (street and city), email addresses, hashed passwords, telephone numbers, customers' cities, and dates of birth. The attacker claims to have obtained a total of 162,000+ records.
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Western Governor's University
August 23, 2015
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[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
JM511 dumps some data from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) after allegedly warning the university twice. The attacker also warns other universities of possible vulnerabilities including: Western Governor's University in Utah, the University of Minnesota, DePaul University, and Northern Illinois University.
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Philippine Bureau of Customs
August 23, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
In name of #OpCustoms, a group of hackers takes down the Philippine Bureau of Customs (customs.gov.ph). The hackers come from Anonymous-affiliated groups Pinoy LulzSec, Elite Cyber Security and MCA and PHU DDOS Squad.
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ClearVoice Surveys
August 23, 2015
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2021, the market research surveys company ClearVoice Surveys had a publicly facing database backup from 2015 taken and redistributed on a popular hacking forum. The data included 15M unique email addresses across more than 17M rows of data that also included names, physical and IP addresses, genders, dates of birth and plain text passwords. ClearVoice Surveys advised they were aware of the breach and confirmed its authenticity.
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Karnataka State Higher Education Council
August 22, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
The website of the Karnataka State Higher Education Council (kshec.ac.in) is defaced by a group that calls itself Clinkz48.
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State Information Technology Agency
August 21, 2015
In name of #OperationSA and #OpMonsanto, the Anonymous hack the South African government contractor State Information Technology Agency (sita.co.za) and leak its entire database.
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Carlos Loret de Mola
August 20, 2015
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 Carlos Loret de Mola, a journalist and on-air personality who reported on the alleged cover-up of a massacre in western Mexico.
