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Yandex Dump
September 7, 2014
In September 2014, news broke of a massive leak of accounts from Yandex, the Russian search engine giants who also provides email services. The purported million "breached" accounts were disclosed at the same time as nearly 5M mail.ru accounts with both companies claiming the credentials were acquired via phishing scams rather than being obtained as a result of direct attacks against their services.
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California State University
September 6, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
California State University officials reveal a breach in an East Bay web server used to store personal employee information. The security breach occurred on Aug. 23, 2013 and was discovered Aug. 11 of this year.
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Pakistan Ministry of Interior
September 6, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Yet another cyber attack in Pakistan. Anonymous Pakistan defaces the official website of the Pakistan Ministry of Interior (interior.gov.pk).
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Healthcare
September 5, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The White House discloses to the Wall Street Journal that a hacker has breached healthcare.gov, compromising personal data for millions of Americans.
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Sea Pines Resort
September 5, 2014
Sea Pines Resort may have been the victims of a computer hack resulting in stolen credit card information.
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Azad Kashmir Government Portal
September 5, 2014
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[ hack, sqlinjection, government ]
The Pak Cyber Eaglez collective breaks into the online portal of the Azad Kashmir government (ajk.gov.pk), defaces some of the pages, and extracts the database with the login credentials.
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Score
September 4, 2014
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[ leak, misconfiguration, manufacturing ]
Score, a sport uniform manufacturer, discovers a potential unauthorized data breach occurred on September 4, 2014. 500 customers who shopped online may have been compromised.
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Various Government Websites
September 4, 2014
Asor Hack Team dumps 23,000 records purportedly containing bank accounts of Government officials.
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Sheplers
September 4, 2014
Western wear retailer Sheplers notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their payment card information may have been exposed after hackers gained access to its payment systems.
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Bartell Hotels
September 3, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Bartell Hotels issues a notification that the payment card processing systems used at five of its San Diego locations were compromised and personal information, including credit card numbers, may be at risk. The potential number of affected customers is estimated to be between 40,000 and 45,000.
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The Home Depot
September 2, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Home Depot confirms that thieves compromised the payment systems in its 2,200 stores in the US and Canada and stole credit and debit card data. Home Depot believes that 56 million credit cards were compromised by criminals.
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Undisclosed industrial software company
September 2, 2014
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[ espionage, malware, technology ]
AlienVault reveals the details of Scanbox, a watering hole attack compromising the website of an industrial software company to collect information on the site's visitors.
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Pakistan Official Portal
September 1, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
In name of OpPakistan, unknown Hacktivists deface the official portal of Pakistan (pakistan.gov.pk), demanding resignation of prime minister Nawaz Shareef.
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Justice Minister Judith Collins
September 1, 2014
A hacker known as RawShark (@whaledump) causes the resignation of New Zealand Justice Minister Judith Collins after releasing information showing a purported campaign to undermine government officials.
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Bin Weevils
September 1, 2014
In September 2014, the online game Bin Weevils suffered a data breach. Whilst originally stating that only usernames and passwords had been exposed, a subsequent story on DataBreaches.net indicated that a more extensive set of personal attributes were impacted (comments there also suggest the data may have come from a later breach). Data matching that pattern was later provided to Have I Been Pwned by @akshayindia6 and included almost 1.3m unique email addresses, genders, ages and plain text passwords.
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Powerbot
September 1, 2014
In approximately September 2014, the RuneScape bot website Powerbot suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of over half a million unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
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McKayla Maroney
August 31, 2014
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[ leak ]
Yet another leak of celebrities pictures. A massive leak of nude and risque photos appearing to be of huge stars like is leaked online, first appearing on 4chan.
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Parkistan Army
August 30, 2014
In the name of #OpPakistan, Anonymous conducts a massive cyber attack against many Pakistani government websites, including Parkistan Army's recruitment website, government of Punjab's official portal, Pakistan Meteorological Department, Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution, and several other high-profile sites.
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Israeli Embassy for Uzbekistan
August 30, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
An anti-Assad Syrian 'hacker going with the handle of Dr.SHA6H defaces the official website of Israeli Embassy for Uzbekistan (israelbiz.uz) in solidarity with Palestine.
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Vermillion
August 30, 2014
In August 2014, the Roblox hacking forum Vermillion suffered a data breach that exposed over 8k subscriber records. The breach of the MyBB forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted password hashes.
