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Staples
October 21, 2014
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[ financial, retail ]
Office supply retailer Staples investigates a possible breach of its systems following reports from the banking industry of fraudulent credit and debit card transactions at stores in the northeastern United States.
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Punjab Police
October 20, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The Arab Warriors Team hacks the database of the Punjab Police (India) and dumps the data on pastebin.
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National Domestic Workers Alliance
October 20, 2014
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[ hack, leak, financial ]
The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) announces that an unauthorized intrusion on its email system led to exposing personally identifiable information and financial details of some of its employees.
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Apple iCloud
October 20, 2014
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[ espionage, misconfiguration, technology ]
GreatFire.org, a group that monitors censorship by the Chinese government's national firewall system, reports that China is using the system as part of a man-in-the-middle attack on users of Apple's iCloud service within the country.
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Pakistan People's Party
October 19, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
An Indian hacker going with the handle of Bl@Ck Dr@GoN defaces the official website of Pakistan People's Party, which is the country's oldest political party. The hack is done against a tweet made by chairman of PPP Bilawal Zardari.
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Ludhiana Rural Police
October 19, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Another episode of the cyber war between India and Pakistan. A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of Virkid from the MadLeets hacking crew defaces the official website of Ludhiana Rural Police (ludhianaruralpolice.in).
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RTSH
October 18, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
A collective dubbed Serbian Hackers defaces the website of the Albanian State Television RTSH. The defaced pages shows a message indicating that Kosovo belongs to Serbia.
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ILikeCheats
October 18, 2014
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2014, the game cheats website known as ILikeCheats suffered a data breach that exposed 189k accounts. The vBulletin based forum leaked usernames, IP and email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com.
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Cyberswim
October 17, 2014
Cyberswim, Inc. notifies an undisclosed number of customers that unauthorized individuals or entities installed malicious software on the computer server hosting its website and may have compromised their personal information, including payment card data.
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Beacon House
October 16, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
Kami Haxor hacks beaconhouse.edu.pk and dumps 42,000+ usernames and passwords.
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Sri Lankan Consumer Affairs Authority
October 15, 2014
IAMLUPO hacks the Sri Lankan Consumer Affairs Authority (caa.gov.lk) and dumps 20,699 username and passwords.
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thesnappening
October 15, 2014
thesnappening.org, the hosting site for the pictures leaked from Snapchat after The Snappening affair, is hacked by Team Danny, and the details of his founder Mudit Grover, are posted on the hacked page.
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UC Davis Health System
October 15, 2014
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[ hack, leak, healthcare ]
UC Davis Health System notifies 1,326 patients that a physician's work email account was accessed by an unknown source and an email within that account contained their personal or medical information.
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thesnappening.org
October 15, 2014
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[ data leak, hacking, defacement ]
thesnappening.org, the hosting site for the pictures leaked from Snapchat after The Snappening affair, is hacked by Team Danny, and the details of his founder Mudit Grover, are posted on the hacked page.
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British Columbia Wildfire Management Branch
October 14, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Roughly 15,000 applicant names, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and job evaluation details held on a database belonging to BC Wildfire Management Branch are accessed by an Estonian hacker.
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People Power
October 13, 2014
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[ hack, malware ]
Researchers at Washington-based Volexity, observe that the websites of the Alliance for True Democracy (ATD), the Democratic Party Hong Kong (DPHK), People Power, and the Professional Commons have been compromised and serve malicious code to their visitors.
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Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali
October 13, 2014
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
The UK Police National Cyber Crime Unit is asked to investigate claims that computers and mobile phones used by exiled Bahraini pro-democracy activists living in the UK are under illegal surveillance. The three named victims are Dr. Saeed Shehabi, Jaafar al-Hasabi and Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali.
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Oregon Employment Department
October 13, 2014
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[ leak, misconfiguration, government ]
851,322 individuals who used Oregon Employment Department's WorkSource Oregon Management Information System (WOMIS) will soon be receiving notices that their information might have been compromised due to a recently discovered vulnerability.
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Ningbo Free Trade Zone
October 13, 2014
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[ leak, government ]
The Anonymous follow up on their threat made under operation #OpHK, to release data from Chinese government websites in support of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The collective leaks hundreds of phone numbers and email addresses.
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Snapsaved
October 13, 2014
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
Snapsaved.com, a third-party application that allows Snapchat users to save images and videos sent over the service online, is hacked, as a consequence 13 gigabytes of stolen images are posted online.
