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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.
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Bay Area Bioscience Association
September 27, 2014
Bay Area Bioscience Association (BayBio) notifies online customers of a breach.
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Steve-O
September 25, 2014
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[ hack, social ]
The stunt performer Steve-o dares hackers to break into his iCloud account and steal nude photos of him. A day after his Twitter account is hacked.
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Airports Authority of India
September 24, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Unknown hackers breach the website of the Airports Authority of India (aai.aero) and steal critical data pertaining to airports around India (the breach happened on July 2014 but was discovered only now).
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Activision Blizzard
September 23, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hackers from the group Lizard Squad reneged on their promise to quit earlier this month, apparently launching DDoS attacks against Blizzard's servers running Call Of Duty: Ghosts and Destiny.
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Grady High School
September 23, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
Atlanta Public School officials are investigating a computer hacking incident at Grady High School. According to a district spokesperson, nearly 200 computers were affected.
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iThemes
September 23, 2014
After noticing some suspicious activity on their servers, iThemes, a Wordpress plugins whop, ask all customers to reset their iThemes password immediately.
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Viator
September 23, 2014
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[ financial, hack, retail ]
Travel website Viator admits to have suffered a compromise of payment card data on September 2, and confirms that some customer credit cards had been used for fraudulent purposes. Viator notifies approximately 1.4 million customers.
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jQuery
September 23, 2014
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
RiskIQ detects a credential-stealing malware being loaded onto users computers through a drive-by download at jQuery.com. The attack was carried out using RIG exploit kit to target visitors.
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mariavision
September 20, 2014
@h1v3team hacks mariavision.com and dumps 3000 usernames and hashed passwords.
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K Box
September 19, 2014
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[ hack, leak ]
A Singapore-based karaoke chain, K Box, has members' personal information compromised earlier this week when the hacker group The Knowns' posted the data online. Up to 317,000 members' details could have been.
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General Inspectorate of Romanian Police
September 19, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Anonymous Romania defaces the home page of the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police (politiaromana.ro).
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The Times of Israel
September 18, 2014
Visitors of two well-known English-language news websites based in Israel (The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post) could have had their computers infected with malware after cybercriminals managed to hijack the digital ads being served on the site.
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C&K Systems
September 17, 2014
C&K Systems admits that they had suffered a breach of point-of-sale systems tied to their Hosted Managed Services Environment. The incident is behind the credit card breach affecting Goodwill Industries and two other unnamed outsourced companies.
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Unnamed oil and gas company
September 17, 2014
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[ hack, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Bromium are alerted of a watering-hole attack originating from the website of a high-profile technology startup in the oil and gas sector.
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RT
September 17, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
RT.com is hit with the most powerful DDoS attack in the website's history, which reached 10 Gbps in strength.
