Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET)
June 27, 2018
•[ financial, education ]
Unauthorized individuals gain access to 21 accounts of the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET) and make 44 withdrawals, for a total of $1,416,635, of which, $442,540 is recovered or stopped.
FastBooking
June 26, 2018
•[ financial, technology ]
The personal details and payment card data of guests from hundreds of hotels, are stolen by an unknown attacker from FastBooking, a Paris-based company that sells hotel booking software to more than 4,000 hotels in 100 countries. The breach occurred on June 14.
PDQ
June 22, 2018
•[ hack, financial ]
PDQ, a fast-casual dining restaurant warns customers about a cyber attack on its computer systems in which hackers were able to access or acquire personal information from the chain's customers who paid with credit cards. The breach lasted nearly a year, from May 19, 2017 to April 20, 2018.
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.
Med Associates
June 19, 2018
•[ financial, healthcare ]
Med Associates notifies its patients that the facility suffered a data breach on March 22, when unusual activity was detected, potentially exposing PII, including medical diagnosis and payment card information of about 270,000 patients.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
June 12, 2018
•[ financial, government ]
An audit reveals that a scammer stole nearly $94,000 in public funds from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center last year.
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.
Shiawassee County
June 2, 2018
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
The Shiawassee County financial administrator resigns after being caught in a phishing scam and mistakenly wiring $50,000 to an overseas bank account.
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.
Goliath and Goliath
May 27, 2018
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
Comedy and entertainment agency Goliath and Goliath suffered a loss of more than 300,000 ZAR (22,000 USD worth) in what appears to be a phishing scam.
Chili's Restaurant
May 11, 2018
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Chili's Restaurant reveals that some restaurants have been impacted by a data incident, which may have resulted in unauthorized access or acquisition of payment card data between March and April 2018.
Malley's Chocolates
May 10, 2018
•[ financial, hack, retail ]
Malley's Chocolates reveals that its website has been hacked, and the card information of 3,400 online customers has been breached.
Northwest University
May 4, 2018
•[ financial, hack, education ]
The email account of the Northwest University's CFO is hacked. As a consequence $60,000 are stolen.
Rail Europe North America
May 1, 2018
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Rail Europe, a site used by Americans to buy train tickets in Europe, reveals a three-month data breach of credit cards and debit cards. Hackers implanted credit card-skimming malware on its website between late-November 2017 and mid-February 2018.
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).
Sen. Richard Pan
April 26, 2018
•[ financial, hack, government ]
Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, claims that thieves hacked his email account and stole $46,000 from his re-election campaign in a "sophisticated" scheme earlier this year.
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.
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.
[24]7.ai
April 5, 2018
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
[24]7.ai, a firm providing online customer support services based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, is breached. As consequence other companies using its services suffer a theft of customer payment information. The breach occurred between September 26, 2017 and Octover 12, 2017.
