Recent Breaches
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January 1, 2015 • poor security
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January 1, 2015 • hacked
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January 1, 2015 • hacked
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January 1, 2015 • hacked
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January 1, 2015 • hacked
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January 1, 2015 hacked
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January 1, 2015 • hacked
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January 1, 2015 • hacked
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January 1, 2015 • social engineering
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December 22, 2014 • An unidentified threat actor compromised an unnamed German steel mill by accessing the plant's business network and working its way into production networks and the systems controlling plant equipment. The compromise caused one of plant's furnaces to shut down, causing some damage..
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December 22, 2014 • In December 2014, the electronic sports organisation known as Team SoloMid was hacked and 442k members accounts were leaked. The accounts included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted hashes of passwords.
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November 25, 2014 • In November 2014, the acne website acne.org suffered a data breach that exposed over 430k forum members' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and passwords.
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November 24, 2014 • In November 2014, the online game Warframe was hacked and 819k unique email addresses were exposed. Allegedly due to a SQL injection flaw in Drupal, the attack exposed usernames, email addresses and data in a "pass" column which adheres to the salted SHA12 password hashing pattern used by Drupal 7. Digital Extremes (the developers of Warframe), asserts the salted hashes are of "alias names" rather than passwords.
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November 21, 2014 Threat actors compromised the networks of Sony Pictures Entertainment, destroyed data, and publicly released employee emails. The United States attributed the incident to North Korea, which is believed to have staged the attack to prevent Sony from releasing the film The Interview, which depicts an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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November 20, 2014 • A threat actor targeted Westinghouse Electric Company, a nuclear power developer, for espionage purposes. One of the individuals alleged to be behind this incident, believed to be Russian military intelligence (known as GRU), was indicted by the U.S. Justice Department.
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November 15, 2014 • In November 2014, the Malwarebytes forum was hacked and 111k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
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November 13, 2014 Four restaurants of the Beef O'Brady's chain are hacked in Florida, resulting in several customers complaining about unauthorized transactions.
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November 13, 2014 • In November 2014, the forum for Bot of Legends suffered a data breach. The IP.Board forum contained 238k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
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November 12, 2014 • Chinese threat actors accessed the network of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The hack resulted in NOAA temporarily halting the sending of satellite data to institutions such as the National Weather Service.
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November 9, 2014 • A threat actor compromised the networks of the U.S. Postal Service and gained access to employee data. Chinese threat actors are believed to be behind the attack.