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Rafael Correa Twitter account
March 29, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The official Twitter account of Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael), the president of Ecuador, has been hijacked. Anonymous Ecuador hackers are apparently behind the attack.
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Boxee
March 29, 2014
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.
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Cerberus
March 28, 2014
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[ leak, technology ]
Over 96,000 users of the Cerberus anti-theft application for Android are advised to change their passwords after the company suffered a data breach.
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Spec's
March 28, 2014
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
About 550,000 customers, as well as employees of Spec's may have had personal information compromised in a malware attack that impacted 34 locations (and dates back to Oct. 31, 2012).
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Telecommunications Directorate
March 28, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Hackers of the RedHack group have launched a cyberattack against the official website of Turkey's Telecommunications Directorate (tib.gov.tr) in response to the decision to ban YouTube and Twitter in the country.
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University of Wisconsin Parkside
March 28, 2014
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[ hack, malware, education ]
About 15,000 University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UW-Parkside) students are notified that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised by hackers who installed malware on a server.
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Sorenson Communications
March 27, 2014
All employees with Utah-based Sorenson Communications, and a branch named CaptionCall, are notified that their personal information may have been compromised after the data was accessed in an attack on an unnamed payroll vendor.
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Naver
March 26, 2014
A 31-year-old man is arrested for infiltrating the accounts of 25 million people on Naver, the nation's largest Web portal. According to the National Police Agency, the suspect, surnamed Seo, purchased the private information from a Korean-Chinese in August.
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Shelburne Country Store
March 26, 2014
Shelburne Country Store notifies an undisclosed number of online customers that their credit card information may have been exposed when the store's payment processing system was breached.
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El Agave Restaurant
March 26, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Over 200 credit and debit card numbers stolen by hackers who installed malware on the point of sale system of El Agave Restaurant.
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Createthe Group
March 26, 2014
Digital luxury agency Createthe Group notifies to be investigating a security breach involving a number of its luxury, fashion and retail clients.
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Basecamp
March 24, 2014
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[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
After refusing to pay a ransom, Basecamp is the victim of a DDoS attack.
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California Department of Motor Vehicles
March 22, 2014
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[ financial, government ]
The California Department of Motor Vehicles appears to have suffered a wide-ranging credit card data breach involving online payments. The Department states that its computers were not breached directly, but rather the breach happened to a card processor.
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Israel Defense
March 22, 2014
Hamas activists hack into the news website Israel Defense and also flood many Israeli cell phone users with text messages threatening them with Qassam rockets or kidnappings.
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GitHub
March 21, 2014
Github is the victim of another DDoS attack.
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Rosenthal Wine Shop
March 21, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Rosenthal Wine Shop notifies customers that malware may have compromised their payment card information.
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Auburn University
March 21, 2014
An unidentified hacker accesses a compromised server on Auburn University College of Business server that contained personal information allegedly compromising the information of about 14,000 current and former students, faculty and staff.
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Hootsuite
March 21, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hootsuite is the victim of a DDoS Attack.
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University of Maryland, College Park
March 20, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
The University of Maryland, College Park suffers another cyberattack. The breach is unrelated to last month's cyberattack.
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EA
March 19, 2014
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[ hack, social, phishing ]
One of Electronic Arts' servers is breached, allowing hackers to create a phony Apple log-in screen that prompts users for personal information.
