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).
Wendy's
January 27, 2016
•[ financial, retail ]
Wendy's, the nationwide chain of fast-food restaurants, says it is investigating claims of a possible credit card breach at some locations.
FACC
January 19, 2016
•[ financial, hack, manufacturing ]
Aerospace parts manufacturer FACC says that its financial accounting department has been attacked by hackers, who managed to steal approximately 50 million ($54.5 million).
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.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation
December 23, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Hyatt Hotels Corporation announces that it recently identified malware on computers that operate the payment processing systems for Hyatt-managed locations (627 properties across more than 50 countries).
Landry's
December 17, 2015
•[ financial, retail ]
Landry's Inc. is the latest hospitality firm to suffer a credit card breach.
Swiss Cleaners
December 15, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
The dry cleaning firm Swiss Cleaners suffered a point of sale data breach that could have potentially stolen the data from every payment card type used in the eight-store chain for almost one year.
Elephant Bar
December 9, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
CM Ebar, LLC, the owner of Elephant Bar restaurants, announces that a PoS malware breach may have affected the information of customers at 29 locations in California, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, and Florida.
Kalahari Resorts
December 7, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Kalahari Resorts announces that its Ohio and Wisconsin resorts have been hit by a point-of-sale (POS) breach between March 9 and June 8.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
November 20, 2015
•[ financial, malware ]
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc says that payment systems at 54 of its hotels in North America had been infected with a malware designed to collect payment card data.
Noble House Hotels and Resorts
November 15, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Luxury hotel chain Noble House Hotels and Resorts notifies customers of a breach in six properties they uncovered in the wake of reports by customers of fraudulent charges on payment cards.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology
November 12, 2015
•[ financial, malware, education ]
More than a dozen students and faculty at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST) have their credit card information stolen by a suspected card reader vulnerability.
Fastmail
November 9, 2015
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
FastMail is hit by a DDoS attack that briefly make some services unavailable. A further attack is executed on Monday, 9 Nov. Both attacks are accompanied by an extortion demand that threaten further attacks if the company does not pay the attacker 20 Bitcoin.
Runbox
November 5, 2015
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
Runbox is subjected to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Even in this case the attackers demand a ransom to stop the waves of attack.
EyeBuyDirect
October 21, 2015
•[ hack, financial, misconfiguration ]
An undisclosed number of individuals are notified that unauthorized access was gained to EyeBuyDirect's website and personal information, including payment card data, may have been compromised.
Peppermill Resort Spa Casino
October 16, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
An undisclosed number of individuals are being notified that an attack may have compromised credit and debit cards used between October 2014 and February 2015 at the front desk of the Reno, Nevada-based Peppermill Resort Spa Casino.
Yellowfront Grocery
October 16, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Yellowfront Grocery in Damariscotta, Maine, notifies its customers via Facebook that it had experienced a point-of-sale (POS) breach on Oct 23.
FXCM
October 5, 2015
•[ financial, finance ]
Foreign-exchange broker FXCM privately informs clients to have suffered a data breach and that the attackers have been able to steal funds from some accounts.
Trump Hotel Collection
September 30, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
The Trump Hotel Collection acknowledges a malware infection across the United States and Canada, potentially stealing customer credit card data for an entire year. The list of hotels includes two locations in New York and one in each of the following cities: Chicago, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Toronto, and Miami.
University of Calgary
September 27, 2015
•[ financial, education ]
The employee records of a number of University of Calgary staff members are fraudulently accessed, and banking records altered, during an "isolated breach".
