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Landry's
December 17, 2015
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[ financial, retail ]
Landry's Inc. is the latest hospitality firm to suffer a credit card breach.
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City of Boston
December 16, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Several Internet services in Boston are disrupted by a DDoS attack, defined as a "minor act of cybervandalism" . The outage, affects city agencies and the police and fire departments.
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http://keepyourlinks
December 16, 2015
C0d3c1t4d3l hacks keepyourlinks.com and dumps 4,586 usernames and clear text passwords.
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Swiss Cleaners
December 15, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
The dry cleaning firm Swiss Cleaners suffered a point of sale data breach that could have potentially stolen the data from every payment card type used in the eight-store chain for almost one year.
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http://www
December 14, 2015
ProjectDump hacks bluebooktrader.com and dumps 6,187 usernames and hashed passwords.
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European Space Agency
December 14, 2015
Members of the online hacktivist Anonymous hack several subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leak personal and login credentials of more than 8000 subscribers and officials.
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Military officials in the US
December 14, 2015
In reaction to the campaign of the Anonymous against ISIS, the group leaks personal data, and claims that it belongs to military officials in France and the US.
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Moonfruit
December 14, 2015
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[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
After suffering a DDoS attack by the infamous Armada Collective, Moonfruit takes down all the websites to enhance the defences and avoid to pay the ransom.
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Comcast
December 14, 2015
Researchers at Malwarebytes identify a malvertising campaign targeting Comcast Users via the Xfinity search page.
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Unknown Organization
December 14, 2015
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[ ransomware, government ]
A hacker called g0tchack hacks the website of the CIty of Providence and asks for a ransom of $1,500 to $2,000 to give the data back.
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QuinStreet
December 14, 2015
In approximately late 2015, the maker of "performance marketing products" QuinStreet had a number of their online assets compromised. The attack impacted 28 separate sites, predominantly technology forums such as flashkit.com, codeguru.com and webdeveloper.com (view a full list of sites). QuinStreet advised that impacted users have been notified and passwords reset. The data contained details on over 4.9 million people and included email addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 hashes.
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Trump Tower New York
December 12, 2015
The Anonymous set their sight to Donald Trump and take down the website for Donald Trump's trademark New York City skyscraper (trumptowerny.com).
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Easily
December 11, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
In a letter to customers, UK web hosting firm Easily.co.uk reveals to have suffered a targeted attack which exposed an unspecified number of customer domain names.
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Danish Parliament
December 11, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Danish Parliament website folketinget.dk is taken offline in a DDoS attack.
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The Guardian
December 11, 2015
FireEye labs reveal that an archived article on The Guardian website that investigates cybercrime distributes malware via the Angler Exploit Kit.
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Glorious Leader!
December 11, 2015
MoneyHorse Games announces that Glorious Leader!, a game they were developing mocking North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un, has been hacked (maybe on the wake of the infamous Sony Hack) with the consequent destruction of all game data.
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Japanese Prime Minister
December 10, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The website of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (s-abe.or.jp) is taken down by a DDoS attack. The hacktivist collective Anonymous is suspected to be the author of the attack on the site in protest of the nation's whale hunting policy.
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Swedish House Mafia Facebook Page
December 10, 2015
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[ hack ]
The Facebook page of the Electronic Dance Music Group Swedish House Mafia is hacked and the attacker posts some offending images of Miley Cyrus.
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Cricket South Africa Facebook Page
December 9, 2015
The Cricket South Africa Facebook page is hacked, and the hackers post racist and sexual content on the page.
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Elephant Bar
December 9, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
CM Ebar, LLC, the owner of Elephant Bar restaurants, announces that a PoS malware breach may have affected the information of customers at 29 locations in California, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, and Florida.
