Rail Europe North America
May 1, 2018
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Rail Europe, a site used by Americans to buy train tickets in Europe, reveals a three-month data breach of credit cards and debit cards. Hackers implanted credit card-skimming malware on its website between late-November 2017 and mid-February 2018.
[24]7.ai
April 5, 2018
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
[24]7.ai, a firm providing online customer support services based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, is breached. As consequence other companies using its services suffer a theft of customer payment information. The breach occurred between September 26, 2017 and Octover 12, 2017.
Bank Negara Malaysia
March 29, 2018
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
Bank Negara Malaysia reveals to have foiled cyberattack in which fraudulent messages to transfer funds were sent on the SWIFT transactions platform.
Coinsecure
April 12, 2018
•[ financial, finance ]
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India's second exchange, announces that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth, have been transferred from the main wallet to an account that is not under their control.
Chili's Restaurant
May 11, 2018
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Chili's Restaurant reveals that some restaurants have been impacted by a data incident, which may have resulted in unauthorized access or acquisition of payment card data between March and April 2018.
SPEI
April 27, 2018
•[ financial, finance ]
Three banks in Mexico are targeted by a cyber attack aimed to penetrate Mexico's electronic payment systems (SPEI).
Sen. Richard Pan
April 26, 2018
•[ financial, hack, government ]
Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, claims that thieves hacked his email account and stole $46,000 from his re-election campaign in a "sophisticated" scheme earlier this year.
MyEtherWallet
April 24, 2018
•[ hack, financial, misconfiguration ]
A hacker (or group of hackers) hijacks the Amazon DNS servers of MyEtherWallet.com, a web-based Ether wallet service. Users accessing the site are redirected to a fake version of the website. Those who logged in had their wallet private keys stolen, which the attacker used to empty accounts.
Fortnite
March 14, 2018
•[ hack, financial, technology ]
Several news reports surface of the suspected hacking of player accounts of popular video game Fortnite, with some gamers apparently faced with large credit card charges from fraudulent purchases.
NIS America
March 1, 2018
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Japanese gaming developer Nippon Ichi Software reveals that its American arm, NIS America, has suffered a major data breach compromising the personal and financial data of online customers. The breach, due to malware implanted in the checkout page, took place sometime between January 23 and February 26.
Scottsboro City Board of Education
March 1, 2018
•[ social, financial, phishing ]
The Payroll Department of the Scottsboro City Board of Education falls victim of a phishing scam. The attackers requested W-2 information from all employees.
JJ Meds
March 9, 2018
•[ financial, retail ]
JJ Meds, a medical marijuana delivery service in Canada, goes offline after having received an extortion demand.
Punjab National Bank (PNB)
February 22, 2018
•[ leak, financial, finance ]
10,000 Credit Cards details from Punjab National Bank are leaked in the dark web.
Staybridge Suites Lexington Hotel
February 14, 2018
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
The Staybridge Suites Lexington Hotel is hit with what appears to be a point of sales data breach that occurred when several devices at the hotel were hit with malware.
Harris County
January 24, 2018
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
Harris County lose almost $900K in a phishing scam. The attack dates back to September 2017.
Undisclosed water utility company
February 8, 2018
•[ financial, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Radiflow discover the first example of a malware attacking the operational network of a water utility company in order to mine the Monero cryptocurrency,
National Stores, Inc.
January 23, 2018
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
National Stores, Inc. announces that it has been the victim of a malware attack, enabling unauthorized parties to access payment card information. It appears that payment cards used by customers at some National Stores locations between July 16 and December 11, 2017 may be involved.
Unnamed Russian bank
February 16, 2018
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
The Russian Central Bank reveals that unknown hackers stole 339.5 million roubles ($6 million) from a Russian bank last year in an attack using the SWIFT international payments messaging system.
Electronic Gas Stations
January 19, 2018
•[ financial, malware, energy ]
Russian authorities identify a distributed malware campaign targeting electronic gas stations using software programs at the pumps. Dozens of gas stations have been attacked with customers paying more for fuel (around 3 to 7% increment per gallon).
Exmo
December 28, 2017
•[ financial, ddos, finance ]
A UK-based Bitcoin exchange called Exmo is hit by a targeted DDoS attack. The attack happens just days after one of Exmo's leading analysts, a blockchain expert named Pavel Lerner, is kidnapped in Kiev while leaving his office.
