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.
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.
Trezor
July 1, 2018
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
The team behind the Trezor multi-cryptocurrency wallet service discovers a phishing attack against some of its users that took place over the weekend, carried on via DNS poisoning or BGP hijacking.
BtcTurk
July 1, 2018
•[ leak, finance ]
Major Turkish crypto exchange BtcTurk confirms a data breach from mid-2018 that leaked sensitive information of over 500,000 users.
ZenCash
June 2, 2018
•[ financial, finance ]
ZenCash, an upcoming privacy coin, is the victim of a 51% attack.
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.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
May 28, 2018
•[ leak, finance ]
Also the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), the country's fifth largest bank is affected by the same incident, and they believe that 40,000 users could be possibly affected from its subsidiary Simplii Financial.
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.
American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac)
May 25, 2018
•[ leak, finance ]
American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac) issues a press release concerning the breach of independent contractor sales agents' email accounts. The breach occurred between Jan. 17 and April 2 and has reportedly affected some clients' personal information.
Liberty Life
June 16, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
Liberty Life's IT system are attacked by unknown hackers, who reportedly obtain sensitive data about some of the insurer's top clients and ask for a ransom.
Syscoin
June 13, 2018
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Malicious actors replace the legitimate Windows installer for Syscoin's cryptocurrency with a version containing malware, which was available on the company's Github page for several days.
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.
Frost Bank
March 16, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Frost Bank investigates a breach after the company discovered unauthorized access to digital images stored in those customers' commercial image archives.
Fleetcor Technologies
May 3, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Fleetcor Technologies, a company specializing in fuel cards and workforce payment products and services, publicly discloses that its gift card systems were accessed last month by an unauthorized party. A "significant number" of gift cards that are at least six months old, as well as PIN numbers, were accessed.
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.
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).
Banco Inter
May 4, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Shares in Banco Inter fall as much as 11 percent after reports that a hacking attack had obtained sensitive data pertaining to clients. Banco Inter reveals it was "the victim of attempted extortion."
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.
Trusted Quid
March 20, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Trusted Quid reports a theft of data from unauthorised access to its website. The incident relates to data directly entered by people applying for a loan only on the Trusted Quid website between 1 July 2016 and 17 February 2018. Up to 65,925 people may have been affected by the incident.
