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Siouxland Pain Clinic
August 1, 2015
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[ hack, healthcare ]
Siouxland Pain Clinic's computer system is hacked, putting at risk patient privacy. 13,000 users are potentially affected and an investigation suggests a possible Chinese origin for the attack.
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Myanmar Ministry of Information website
August 1, 2015
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[ espionage, government ]
A threat actor compromised the President of Myanmar website in an attempt to compromise visitors to those websites for espionage purposes.
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University of Connecticut
July 31, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
The University of Connecticut reveals the details of a cyber intrusion through which hackers, apparently originating in China, gained access to servers at Uconn's School of Engineering.
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RBS Banking Group
July 31, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The RBS banking group reveals it suffered a cyber attack on its online services that left customers struggling to log on for nearly an hour.
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Planned Parenthood
July 30, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, healthcare ]
Planned Parenthood websites are taken down by a DDoS attack and, according to the main page, undergoing maintenance.
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Red Granite Pictures
July 30, 2015
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[ hack, social, technology ]
Red Granite Pictures, claims in a new lawsuit that it has been the subject of a malicious hack that has allowed the attackers to intimidate employees and disrupt its business via a mass emails campaign.
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PagerDuty
July 30, 2015
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[ leak, technology ]
Alarm aggregation and dispatching service PagerDuty detects an unauthorized intrusion by an attacker who gained access to customer information, and the company requires that all customers change their passwords.
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United Airlines
July 29, 2015
A report from Bloomberg reveals that the hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees in recent months breached another big target at around the same time: United Airlines. The attacked probably happened in May, early June.
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HanesBrands
July 29, 2015
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[ hack, manufacturing ]
Hanesbrands Inc. reveals that a customer order database was breached by a hacker in June, compromising information for about 900,000 online and telephone customers.
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Pokébip
July 28, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2015, the French Pokmon site Pokbip suffered a data breach which exposed 657k subscriber identities. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
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http://www
July 27, 2015
Opheus Haxor hacks the forum section of j-ax.it (the website of one of the most popular Italian singers) and dumps 31,000 usernames.
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Village Pizza & Pub
July 27, 2015
Village Pizza & Pub, a local pizza chain headquartered in Elgin, Illinois, is the indirect victim of security breach perpetrated against TransformPOS, the company that provides its POS payment card processing system.
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New York Magazine
July 26, 2015
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[ hack, ddos ]
New York magazine's website was taken down, apparently by hackers trying to silence it, just hours after publishing the accounts of 35 women who say they were raped by Bill Cosby.
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Planned Parenthood
July 26, 2015
A group of hackers who oppose the healthcare nonprofit's abortion practices release Planned Parenthood's website databases as well as names and email addresses of the organization's employees.
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Kaspersky Lab
July 25, 2015
A group of hackers going with the handle of The Exploit3rs deface the official Moroccan domains of Google, Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs. The attack was possible since the attackers hacked into the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco.
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Canadian government
July 25, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Hackers from the Anonymous collective say they breached supposedly secure Canadian government computers and accessed high-level, classified national security documents as retaliation for last week's fatal shooting by the RCMP of a protester in British Columbia. To support their claim, they publish a document that appears to be legitimate Treasury Board of Canada notes on federal cabinet funding to fix flaws in the foreign stations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
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University of Queensland
July 25, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
A Group of Hacktivists calling themselves @NightmareSquad hacks the University of Queensland and dumps 9 individuals' e-mail addresses and clear-text passwords.
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BitDefender
July 24, 2015
A hacker called DetoxRansome hacks BitDefender and blackmails the company, demanding a ransom of $15,000 and threatening to release the stolen usernames and passwords (allegedly kept in clear) in case the ransom is not paid.
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Healthfirst
July 24, 2015
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[ leak, healthcare ]
New York-based Healthfirst notifies about 5,300 current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised in a criminal fraud scheme.
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CoinCut
July 23, 2015
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[ leak, finance ]
UK bitcoin exchange CoinCut is investigating a possible data breach which exposed sensitive customer information including passport and card data to the public.
