Unnamed American Express third-party card processor
March 10, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
American Express warns some customers that their personal details may have been exposed due to a data breach of a third-party service provider.
Bank of North Dakota
March 1, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Members of the @TheFamilyMethod claim to have hacked the Bank of North Dakota and dump the records of 124 transactions.
Salt Lake City Police
March 13, 2016
•[ hack, government, finance ]
Hackers from New World Hackers group (NWH) claim to have taken down the official website of Salt Lake City police, the airport, First Utah Bank and Downtown Alliance in a form of protest against the shooting of the teenager Abdi Mohamed.
HSBC
January 29, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
HSBC is hit by an apparent DDoS attack on its online banking system.
Bank Yerushalayim
January 24, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Hackers break into the servers of Bank Yerushalayim and access data on thousands of customers.
Coast Central Credit Union
February 25, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
The website of Coast Central Credit Union, a financial institution that serves more than 60,000 customers, is hacked, allowing attackers to implant a backdoor.
Energobank
February 8, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Bloomberg reveals that hackers used malware to penetrate the defenses of Energobank, a Russian regional bank and move the ruble-dollar rate more than 15 percent in minutes, according to Group-IB, the Moscow-based cyber-security firm hired to investigate the attack,
Loanbase
February 6, 2016
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
Popular international Bitcoin crowd-lending platform Loanbase suffers a security breach. Attackers are able to steal 20 BTC (8,000 USD worth).
Ekonombank
January 19, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
A group of Turkish hackers dubbed WKPF defaces the official website of Russia's Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Reconstruction and Development Ekonombank.
TaxAct
January 11, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Tax software maker TaxAct informs some of its customers that an unauthorized third party accessed their TaxAct account in late 2015.
Japanese Banks' Customers
January 7, 2016
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
Researchers at IBM X-Force unmask the cybergang that controls the Rovnix Trojan launching an aggressive campaign against 14 major Japanese Banks.
Cryptsy
January 15, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Paul Vernon, founder of Cryptsy announces that the cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked. The announcement is made more than a year after the discovery of the hack because Cryptsy, in the meantime, was trying to cover the losses, which amount to USD 6 million.
TaxSlayer
January 13, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Tax preparation software publisher TaxSlayer notifies about 8,800 of its customers that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to the personal information contained on their tax return.
Isbank
December 26, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Anonymous claims responsibility for the wave of DDoS attacks against Turkey (accusing the government of supporting ISIS) and starts a second wave against some Turkish leading banks such as Isbank, Garanti and Ziraat Bank.
Unknown Organization
November 25, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Turkish hackers from Turk Hack Team take down the official website of Russian Central Bank (cbr.ru) amid tension near Syrian-Turkey border.
Central Bank of India
November 27, 2015
•[ hack, finance ]
Pakistani hackers hack the website of the Central Bank of India.
Invest Bank
November 25, 2015
•[ hack, leak, ransomware ]
A hacker called Hacker Buba hacks into Invest Bank and holds it to ransom, demanding $3M, and leaking confidential data of clients on Twitter every few hours.
Swedbank
November 6, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, finance ]
Swedbank is taken down by a DDoS attack. A hacker called CocaineSecurity claims to have received a ransom.
Patreon
October 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Patreon, the website that allows people to maintain regular donations to a website, an artist, or project, announces to have suffered a security breach. The site says some registered names, e-mail addresses, and mailing addresses were accessed after someone managed to access a debug version of the site.
Dow Jones & Co.
October 9, 2015
•[ espionage, hack, finance ]
A new breach targeting Dow Jones & Co. Bloomberg reveals that a group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers and stole information to trade on before it became public. The probe began at least a year ago.
