Veyna & Forschino
December 23, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, finance ]
Veyna & Forschino disclose a breach involving an unauthorized access to a company email. Compromised information includes individuals' name, date of birth, telephone numbers, address, Social Security number, W-2 information, 1099 records (including account number if provided), and direct deposit bank account information.
Globex
December 21, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
Hackers try to steal 55 million rubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system. At the end the hackers only withdraw around $100,000.
EtherDelta
December 20, 2017
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
Popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta is hacked, with many users unknowingly sending their tokens to the hacker instead of the exchange. At least 308 ETH ($266,789) were stolen, as well as a large number of tokens potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Bitfinex
December 17, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Bitfinex is, once again hit by a massive DDoS attack.
Bitcoin Insiders in London
December 15, 2017
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
Secureworks reveals a new spearphishing campaign circulating across bitcoin industry insiders in London, carried on via a fake job opening, and aimed to steal their online credentials. The fingers are pointed to the North Korean hackers of the Lazarus Group.
TIO Networks
December 1, 2017
•[ leak, finance ]
PayPal Holdings suspends the operations of TIO Networks, a publicly traded payment processor PayPal acquired in July 2017, after a review of TIO's network has identified a potential compromise of personally identifiable information for approximately 1.6 million customers.
Bitcoin Gold
November 22, 2017
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
More than $3.3 million worth of Cryptocurrency is stolen as part of an elaborate scam that took advantage of bitcoin users seeking to claim their share of the newly created cryptocurrency Bitcoin Gold.
Electroneum
November 6, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
UK cryptocurrency startup Electroneum is the victim of a DDoS attack immediately after having raised $40m ( 30m).
NIC Asia Bank
November 4, 2017
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
NIC Asia Bank, based in Kathmandu, suffers a hack on its computer networks, which abused the SWIFT financial messaging system to help steal approximately $4.4m
Aviva
October 25, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
According to the security group RedLock, a group of hackers managed to breach Amazon Web Services belonging to two companies on the Amazon Cloud: Aviva and Gemalto. The breach was due to poor password policy and aimed to use the resources to mine cryptocurrency.
Bithumb
October 16, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
Local news publications and leading media outlets in South Korea reported that Bithumb, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, suffered a security breach that affected 30,000 users on the trading platform.
Etherparty
October 1, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Hackers disrupt the Etherparty ICO (Initial Coin Offering) after hijacking the platform's website, displaying their own Ethereum address, tricking 59 ICO participants into sending funds to the wrong wallets.
Catholic United Financial
September 6, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
An unknown attacker accesses nearly 130K accounts at Catholic United Financial. The attack happened on September 6th.
Unnamed Bitcoin exchange in South Korea
August 24, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, finance ]
The CWIC Cyber Warfare Research Center in South Korea reveals that a domestic exchange for bitcoin has been the target of an attempted hacking. Suspects are directed to North Korea.
Crystal Finance Millennium
August 23, 2017
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Hackers breach the servers of Crystal Finance Millennium (CFM), another Ukraine company that makes accounting software for local businesses, sparking fear of a new global cyberattack.
Bittrex
August 19, 2017
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
A fake website pretends to be the official site for Bittrex exchange, but in reality, it is a phishing domain not only stealing login credentials of unsuspecting users, but also the money saved in the exchange.
Three major banks in Hungary
August 8, 2017
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
The National Bank of Hungary reveals that hackers have been targeting three major banks in Hungary with a slew of phishing attempts.
UniCredit
July 26, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
UniCredit SpA, Italy's No. 1 bank, says that hackers took biographical and loan data from 400,000 client accounts. The attack occurred in September and October of 2016 and June and July of this year.
Bank of America customers
July 21, 2017
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
A new campaign targets Bank of America customers via emails pretending to be from representatives of the Bank of America.
Avanti Markets
July 8, 2017
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Avanti Markets, a self-service payment kiosks vendors acknowledges to have suffered of breach of its internal networks in which hackers were able to push malicious software out to payment devices.
