NS Bank
August 30, 2018
•[ financial, finance, phishing ]
Researchers from NetScout Arbor reveal the details of a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt Group via spear phishing. One of the targets is NS Bank.
DEOSGames
September 10, 2018
•[ financial, technology ]
Betting platform DEOSGames is drained of a significant chunk of its operating funds in a heist that netted one 'lucky' punter almost $24,000.
Prison-issued tablets
July 26, 2018
•[ hack, financial, government ]
Idaho prison officials announce in a press release that they've identified 364 inmates who have exploited a vulnerability in their prison-issued tablets and have used it to assign nearly $225,000 worth of digital credits to their tablet accounts.
Altex Exchange
July 30, 2018
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Altex Exchange acknowledges that a double-counting bug in Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency did result in a major undisclosed financial loss.
Liverpool FC
July 19, 2018
•[ hack, financial ]
Liverpool FC's fan database is hacked resulting in a serious data breach for around 150 supporters. The club confirms that season ticket holder information - including home addresses and bank details - were stolen from a club email account.
Indian businessman
June 22, 2018
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
The email of a city-based businessman is hacked and INR12.5 lakh (USD 18,230) stolen and transferred to two bank accounts in China.
Notre Dame de Namur University
June 30, 2018
•[ financial, phishing, education ]
Notre Dame de Namur University notifies some financial aid applicants that their information may have been compromised when an employee fell prey to a phishing attack on April 23, 2018.
FastBooking
June 26, 2018
•[ financial, technology ]
The personal details and payment card data of guests from hundreds of hotels, are stolen by an unknown attacker from FastBooking, a Paris-based company that sells hotel booking software to more than 4,000 hotels in 100 countries. The breach occurred on June 14.
B&B Hospitality Group
July 6, 2018
•[ financial, retail ]
B&B Hospitality Group (B&BHG) announces that it has identified and addressed a payment card security incident that affected nine restaurants in the New York metropolitan area.
PDQ
June 22, 2018
•[ hack, financial ]
PDQ, a fast-casual dining restaurant warns customers about a cyber attack on its computer systems in which hackers were able to access or acquire personal information from the chain's customers who paid with credit cards. The breach lasted nearly a year, from May 19, 2017 to April 20, 2018.
Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET)
June 27, 2018
•[ financial, education ]
Unauthorized individuals gain access to 21 accounts of the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET) and make 44 withdrawals, for a total of $1,416,635, of which, $442,540 is recovered or stopped.
Med Associates
June 19, 2018
•[ financial, healthcare ]
Med Associates notifies its patients that the facility suffered a data breach on March 22, when unusual activity was detected, potentially exposing PII, including medical diagnosis and payment card information of about 270,000 patients.
ZenCash
June 2, 2018
•[ financial, finance ]
ZenCash, an upcoming privacy coin, is the victim of a 51% attack.
Shiawassee County
June 2, 2018
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
The Shiawassee County financial administrator resigns after being caught in a phishing scam and mistakenly wiring $50,000 to an overseas bank account.
Taylor Cryptocurrency
May 28, 2018
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
The creators of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app claim that an unidentified hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the company's wallets.
Goliath and Goliath
May 27, 2018
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
Comedy and entertainment agency Goliath and Goliath suffered a loss of more than 300,000 ZAR (22,000 USD worth) in what appears to be a phishing scam.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
June 12, 2018
•[ financial, government ]
An audit reveals that a scammer stole nearly $94,000 in public funds from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center last year.
Coinrail
June 11, 2018
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
Coinrail, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, says that its systems have been hacked. It is believed that hackers stole about 40 billion won (US$37.2 million) worth of cryptocurrency from Coinrail, including 21 billion won worth of Pundi X and 14.9 billion won worth of Aston.
Malley's Chocolates
May 10, 2018
•[ financial, hack, retail ]
Malley's Chocolates reveals that its website has been hacked, and the card information of 3,400 online customers has been breached.
Northwest University
May 4, 2018
•[ financial, hack, education ]
The email account of the Northwest University's CFO is hacked. As a consequence $60,000 are stolen.
