Claire's
June 15, 2020
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Researchers from Sansec reveal that the websites for U.S. based jewelry and accessory giant Claire's, and its subsidiary Icing, were compromised in April via a Magecart attack.
Microsoft
June 10, 2020
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Microsoft reveals that attackers recently hijacked powerful machine-learning clusters inside Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing service to mine cryptocurrency at the expense of the customers who rented them.
Robert Dyas
April 26, 2020
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Robert Dyas notifies customers to have been hit by a malicious script in the payment page between 7-30 March.
Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI)
April 20, 2020
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
The Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI) confirms that some of its members may have had their financial information stolen after "malicious code" was inserted on its website.
PrimoHoagies
April 17, 2020
•[ financial, retail ]
PrimoHoagies reveals that cyber-attackers had broken into its online payment platform and accessed the payment card information of customers who made online purchases between July 15, 2019, and February 18, 2020.
Saint Francis Ministries
April 10, 2020
•[ financial, hack, phishing ]
An unauthorized party gained entry into an employee's email account at Saint Francis Ministries, accessing sensitive personal identifying information, as well as financial and protected health data between Dec. 13 and 20 of 2019.
Government of North Rhine-Westphalia
April 9, 2020
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
The government of North Rhine-Westphalia, a province in western Germany, is believed to have lost tens of millions of euros through a phishing operation mimicking a website built to distribute COVID-19 aid.
Wolfe & Associates
April 3, 2020
•[ hack, financial, misconfiguration ]
Wolfe & Associates, Property Services discloses that an online database was compromised by cyber-criminals in a data breach that may have occurred as many as six months ago. In January 2021, San Diego residents Gordon Welterlen and Nicole Milan admitted to hacking Wolfe & Associates and stealing the identities of more than 9,000 clients. They used that information for fraudulent purposes.
NutriBullet
March 18, 2020
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
NutriBullet is the victim of a Magrcart attack.
Norfund
March 16, 2020
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
Fraudsters running business email compromise scams were able to swindle Norfund, Norway's state investment fund, out of $10 million.
German PayPal users
February 24, 2020
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
According to multiple reports, a critical PayPal vulnerability is behind thefts over recent days from numerous German PayPal users (fraudulent transactions with U.S. stores).
Rutter's
February 13, 2020
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Rutter's discloses that 71 locations were infected with a point-of-sale (POS) malware that was used by attackers to steal customers' credit card information.
Puerto Rico's government
February 12, 2020
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
Puerto Rico's government loses more than $2.6 million after falling for a Business Email Compromise Scam. The incident occurred on January 17.
Altsbit
February 5, 2020
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
Altsbit announces to have been hit with a devastating hack. Criminals made off with 1,066 Komodo (KMD) tokens and 283,375 Verus (VRSC) "coins" with a combined value of $27,000.
US Department of Defense (DOD)
January 31, 2020
•[ financial, malware, government ]
A security researcher discovers a cryptocurrency-mining botnet inside a web server operated by the US Department of Defense (DOD).
Rijksmuseum Twenthe
January 30, 2020
•[ hack, financial, social ]
Hackers posing as a veteran London art dealer trick Rijksmuseum Twenthe, a Dutch museum, buying a John Constable painting into paying 2.4 million pounds ($3.1 million) to a fraudulent bank account.
Laurentian Bank
January 28, 2020
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
Police investigate after thieves hack three banking machines in the greater Montreal area, making off with an estimated $55,000.
Red Kite Community Housing
January 28, 2020
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
Red Kite Community Housing announces to have fallen victim to a cyber-scam in which criminals posed as genuine service providers to steal a staggering 932,000.
Manor Independent School District
January 10, 2020
•[ financial, phishing, education ]
Manor Independent School District announces that email scammers had fleeced the District out of $2.3 million.
Website collecting donations for the victims of the Australia bushfires
January 10, 2020
•[ financial, malware, healthcare ]
Researchers from Malwarebytes discover that attackers compromised a website collecting donations for the victims of the Australia bushfires and injected ATMZOW, a malicious script that steals the payment information of the donors.
