Central Bank of Cyprus
May 5, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
OpIcarus continues and this time the hacktivists of the Anonymous collective take down the Central Bank of Cyprus (centralbank.gov.cy)
Bank of Greece
May 3, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The Anonymous Kick off OpIcarus and take down the Bank of Greece.
Qatar National Bank
April 25, 2016
•[ leak, finance ]
Documents purporting to be from the Qatar National Bank are leaked on a file-sharing site Cryptome.org. According to Cryptome, the leaked file contains more than 15,000 documents detailing more than 100,000 accounts with passwords and PINs.
ADP
April 19, 2016
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Identity thieves steal tax and salary data from payroll giant ADP by registering accounts in the names of employees at more than a dozen customer firms. ADP says the incidents occurred because the victim companies all mistakenly published sensitive ADP account information online.
Reyes & Barsoum L.L.P.
April 19, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
A group of California workers claim in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally broke into their lawyers' database and stole over 32,000 confidential workers comp files.
Coinroll Bitcoin Casino
April 17, 2016
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Coinroll Bitcoin Casino admits that several users had the funds on their online accounts stolen. The breach could be related to an open MongoDB.
Innovak International
April 15, 2016
•[ leak, finance ]
14 school systems, 3 in Alabama and 11 in Mississippi are impacted by a breach to Innovak International involving employees' W-2 statements.
Coinkite Inc.
March 30, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
After a sustained wave of DDoS attacks, the Bitcoin startup Coinkite Inc. officially announces the shutdown of its secure wallet service.
BitQuick
March 18, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
BitQuick announces to shut down its server following an attack that gave the attacker unauthorized administrative access. However, all funds, IDs and emails remain secured.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
