Teesside University
February 24, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Students at Teesside University are warned about a possible email security breach and urged to reset their university password.
University of Alaska
February 22, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Dozens of current and former employees and students of the University of Alaska are unable to access their Alaska.edu accounts. According to the investigation, user passwords have been changed by a third party.
Matteo Salvini Blog
February 22, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
The Italian elections are approaching, so Hacktivists from the collective LulzSecITA hack the blog of Matteo Salvini, the leader of right-wind Italian party "La Lega" and dump 70,000 emails.
HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website
February 20, 2018
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
The HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website is hacked and approximately 685,000 user profiles are affected. A senior moderator's account has been compromised by an unidentified hacker, and used to access the user profiles since September 2017.
Fortnite
March 14, 2018
•[ hack, financial, technology ]
Several news reports surface of the suspected hacking of player accounts of popular video game Fortnite, with some gamers apparently faced with large credit card charges from fraudulent purchases.
Port of Longview
March 13, 2018
•[ hack ]
The Port of Longview is hit by a cyber attack that may have affected hundreds of past and current employees and dozens of vendors.
Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's Senate campaign
March 8, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's Senate campaign tells the FBI in a letter that it fears it was hacked.
Dutch women's handball team
March 8, 2018
•[ hack ]
According to local reports in the Netherlands, hackers manage to breach the surveillance camera system in a dressing room of a sauna hosting the women handball team, and post the recordings on adult websites last December.
Pinelands Regional School District
March 7, 2018
•[ hack, malware, education ]
The Pinelands Regional School District is hit by the Emotet malware.
Unidentified US Service Provider
March 5, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Few days after GitHub suffered a massive 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack, Arbor Networks unveil the details of a new record DDoS attack that clocked at 1.7 Tbps. The attack was aimed at a yet-to-be-identified "US service provider."
St. Peter's Surgery & Endoscopy Center
March 2, 2018
•[ hack, healthcare ]
St. Peter's Surgery & Endoscopy Center reveal that hackers potentially compromised medical records of about 135,000 patients earlier this year.
GitHub
February 28, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
GitHub suvives the largest DDoS attack recorded (so far), reching a stunning 1.35 terabits/sec. leveraging memcached servers.
Gwent Police
March 13, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
Gwent Police is being investigated after failing to inform up to 450 people that hackers may have accessed their confidential reports to the force.
National Rifle Association (NRA)
March 10, 2018
•[ hack, ddos ]
According to a report released by Netlab, three different National Rifle Association (NRA) websites experienced Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Tim Hortons
February 27, 2018
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
A computer virus is suspected of crashing cash registers at over 1,000 Tim Hortons coffee and donuts fast food restaurants.
Unknown Organization
February 21, 2018
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
The University of Virginia Health System notifies almost 2,000 patients that their health records may have been exposed when an unauthorized third party implanted malware on a staffer's computer active between May 2015 and December 2016.
Unnamed petrochemical company in Saudi Arabia
March 15, 2018
•[ hack, energy ]
The New York Times reveals that back in August, a petrochemical company with a plant in Saudi Arabia was hit by a cyberattack aimed to sabotage the firm's operations and trigger an explosion.
Family Health Clinic of Carroll County
March 15, 2018
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Patients of the Purdue University Pharmacy and the Family Health Clinic of Carroll County receive notices that their information might be compromised because of a security breach. A malicious file was installed on some computers on September 1st.
Italian Ministry of Education
March 8, 2018
•[ leak, hack, education ]
The Italian branch of the Anonymous collective leaks from the Italian Ministry of Education, 26,000 emails of teachers belonging to all level of schools. They also leak 200 administrative staff addresses.
160 Applebee's Restaurants
March 2, 2018
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
RMH Franchise Holdings reveals that PoS systems at the Applebee's network of restaurants were infected with a PoS malware. 160 restaurants are affected. The breach was discovered on February 13, and took place between November 23, 2017, and January 2, 2018.
