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Westchester Health
May 22, 2015
A group of pro-ISIS hackers called Moroccan Revolution Team defaces the website of Westchester Health (westchesterhealth.com).
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Bitfinex
May 22, 2015
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[ hack, finance ]
Bitfinex, a Bitcoin wallet, announces to have been hacked, and asks all customers to cease depositing cryptocurrency to old deposits addresses. The impact of the breach is relatively small (0.5% of total funds).
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Beacon Health System
May 22, 2015
Beacon Health System notifies an undisclosed number of patients that their personal information may have been compromised by unauthorized individuals who gained access to employee email accounts.
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Bitcoin Talk
May 22, 2015
In May 2015, the Bitcoin forum Bitcoin Talk was hacked and over 500k unique email addresses were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of a raft of personal data including usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates, security questions and MD5 hashes of their answers plus hashes of the passwords themselves.
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Adult Friend Finder
May 21, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
Personal information relating to almost 4 million users of a worldwide online dating website adultfriendfider.com is leaked on the Dark Web by unknown hackers. Details of users' sexual preferences, along with email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, postcodes and the unique internet addresses of users' computers are compromised.
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eNom
May 21, 2015
eNom, a domain registrar, informs its customers to have been hit by a group of attackers, who altered the domain name system (DNS) settings of four domains, redirecting traffic to different web resources than those intended by the owners.
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SafeandVaultStore
May 21, 2015
SafeandVaultStore, an online vendor of physical safes and vaults, notifies its customers to have been hit by cybercriminals who planted malicious code on its eCommerce website and captured details of orders placed by customers.
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Adult FriendFinder (2015)
May 21, 2015
In May 2015, the adult hookup site Adult FriendFinder was hacked and nearly 4 million records dumped publicly. The data dump included extremely sensitive personal information about individuals and their relationship statuses and sexual preferences combined with personally identifiable information.
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Philadelphia City Council
May 20, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
The website for Philadelphia's City Council (phlcouncil.com) is hacked by a pro-Muslim hacker calling himself H1d3n Root.
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Italian Ministry of Defense
May 19, 2015
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[ leak, hack, government ]
After the Expo, the Italian Anonymous target the Italian Ministry of Defense (difesa.it), and leak a list of 1,700 accounts.
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VNG
May 19, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2018, news broke of a massive data breach impacting the Vietnamese company known as VNG after data was discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum where it was extensively redistributed. The breach dated back to an incident in May of 2015 and included of over 163 million customers. The data in the breach contained a wide range of personal attributes including usernames, birth dates, genders and home addresses along with unsalted MD5 hashes and 25 million unique email addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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English Language Academy of the Univerity of Auckland
May 18, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
A hacker group calling itself the Middle East Cyber Army defaces the website of the English Language Academy of the Univerity of Auckland (ela.auckland.ac.nz).
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MetroHealth
May 18, 2015
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
MetroHealth notifies nearly 1,000 patients that three computers in its Cardiac Cath Lab were infected with malware, and the affected computers contained their personal information.
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Wayne County Sheriff's Deparment
May 18, 2015
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[ leak, government ]
In name of OpUSA, the online hacktivists AnonGhost deface the official website of Wayne Country Sheriff's department (sheriff.co.wayne.in.us/) and leak its database containing login credentials of its employees.
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Chilean National Municipal Information System
May 17, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Anonymous hacks the official website of Chile's National Municipal Information System (sinim.gov.cl), defacing it and leaking login details of officials. The attack is done in support of student protests against the government's education policy. The hacker behind the attack goes by CyberBloc.
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jonimitchell
May 16, 2015
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[ hack ]
A hacker dubbed Pr0digy hacks jonimitchell.com and dumps 9,000 usernames and clear text passwords.
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Bundestag
May 15, 2015
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[ espionage, government ]
A Bundestag (German Parliament) official confirms media reports about a "sophisticated attack" on the institution. The attack was later attributed to Russia.
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Pennsylvania State University
May 15, 2015
Penn State's College of Engineering is disconnected from the Internet after two serious computer intrusions that exposed personal information for at least 18,000 people and possible other sensitive data. The group responsible for one of the attacks appears to be based in China.
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Washington Post
May 14, 2015
The Syrian Electronic Army is back and apparently hijacks for a few minutes the mobile site of the Washington Post, displaying messages critical of the news media and Saudi Arabia. The 30-minute disruption occurs when hackers infiltrated a Washington Post content-delivery partner, Instart Logic.
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Atlanta Department of Public Works
May 14, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Unknown attackers hack a billboard in Atlanta and replace a video with several images from Goatse, one of the internet's original shock sites.
