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University College London
October 9, 2014
University College London investigates an 'email hack' after a mysterious 'bello' message is sent to students from UCL's president Michael Arthur email account.
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Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair
October 8, 2014
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[ hack ]
The official website of Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair, an Indian celebrity, is hacked allegedly by Kashmiri pro-separatists.
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Pakistan People's Party
October 8, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The official website of Pakistan's major political party, Pakistan People's Party, is defaced by two hackers going with the handles of Kai-H4xOrR and Shell Haxor.
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Massachusetts Maritime Academy
October 7, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Hackers from Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail deface the official website of Massachusetts Maritime Academy (maritime.edu).
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ABC News 24
October 7, 2014
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[ ransomware, malware ]
The ABC News 24 programming is suspended for about half an hour, from 9:30am to 10:00am, by a ransomware attack (Cryptolocker).
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Nina Dobrev
October 6, 2014
The Fappening 4: a fourth wave of celebrity nudes, including Winona Ryder and the first male victim, Nick Hogan, is leaked online. Further Victims include: AnnaLynne McCord, Erin Heatherton and Nina Dobrev.
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Google Indonesia
October 5, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
The Pakistani hacking group MaDLeeTs defaces the official Google Indonesia domain (google.co.id).
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Provo City School District
October 3, 2014
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[ social, phishing, education ]
Personal information of more than 1,000 employees of Provo City School District is accessed by an unidentified party, who used phishing to breach the systems.
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Flinn Scientific
October 2, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
An undisclosed number of customers who made purchases on the Flinn Scientific website are notified that their personal information, including payment card data, may have been compromised in a malware attack on the company's server that hosts its internet store.
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Supervalu
October 2, 2014
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
The Supervalu supermarket chain recently announced that a new malware was discovered in late August or early September 2014 in the part of its network that processes payment card transactions for some of its Shop 'n Save, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy and Cub Foods stores.
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UNICEF
October 2, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army hacks the Official UNICEF Twitter account (@UNICEF) to share the news of a bomb blast in a Syrian school which killed 49 children.
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5-cont
October 2, 2014
ManiAc Naiem hacks 5-cont.com and dumps 21,000 email details with cleartext passwords.
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United Overseas Bank
October 1, 2014
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[ financial, hack, finance ]
A gang of Latin American Hackers steals more than $1.2 million from 17 automated teller machines (ATMs) belonging to United Overseas Bank, Affin Bank, Al Rajhi Bank and Bank of Islam in Malaysia.
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Valve
October 1, 2014
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[ hack, espionage, technology ]
Four men between 18 and 28 are charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft, the US Army and leading games manufacturers (Epic Games, Valve, and Zombie Studios), as part of an alleged international hacking ring that netted more than $100M in intellectual property.
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Multiple Sclerosis Society
October 1, 2014
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Multiple Sclerosis Society warns website users their personal details might have been compromised via a malicious software discovered on its systems.
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BTC-E
October 1, 2014
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[ hack, finance ]
In October 2014, the Bitcoin exchange BTC-E was hacked and 568k accounts were exposed. The data included email and IP addresses, wallet balances and hashed passwords.
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9Lives
October 1, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
In October 2014, the (now defunct) Belgian gaming news forum 9Lives suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 109k unique email addresses along with usernames and salted MD5 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "Leidhall".
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Japan Airlines
September 30, 2014
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[ leak, malware, transportation ]
Japan Airlines, or JAL, says personal information of up to 750,000 customers of its miles program has been leaked due to a cyber attack, without confirming if banking details had also been affected.
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The Brightside Group
September 29, 2014
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[ hack, finance ]
The Brightside Group, manager of several motor insurance websites, acknowledges a breach in its security system.
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Ello
September 29, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The social network Ello is the target of a DDoS attack.
