Prison-issued tablets
July 26, 2018
•[ hack, financial, government ]
Idaho prison officials announce in a press release that they've identified 364 inmates who have exploited a vulnerability in their prison-issued tablets and have used it to assign nearly $225,000 worth of digital credits to their tablet accounts.
Adhoc
July 18, 2018
•[ hack ]
The website of Adhoc, a Cambodian rights group, is defaced.
LabCorp
July 16, 2018
•[ hack, healthcare ]
LabCorp, the US' biggest blood testing laboratories network, announces that hackers breached its IT network over the weekend.
League of Legends Philippines'
July 15, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
League of Legends Philippines' confirms an unauthorized modification in their client lobby code resulting in the injection of the Coinhive Monero miner.
Facebook
September 27, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Facebook says a breach affected 50 million people on the social network. The vulnerability stemmed from the "view as" feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to others. Attackers exploited code associated with the feature that allowed them to steal "access tokens" that could be used to take over people's accounts.
NewsNow
September 25, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Online news aggregation service NewsNow admits that it has suffered a security breach and an encrypted version of the passwords may have been accessed.
Groopdealz
September 14, 2018
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Groopdealz joins the list of the victims of the Magecart group.
City of Tyler
September 11, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
The city of Tyler is the latest victim of the Click2Gov payment system breach.
Boa Vista SCPC
September 4, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Brazilian credit bureau Boa Vista SCPC investigates a possible hack, after a group of hackers called Fatal Error claimed it accessed the database of the company which has more than 350M personal data.
EscortReviews
September 1, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
An online community promoting female escorts and reviews of their services has suffered a data breach after a hacker downloaded the site's database. The site ran vBulletin 3.8.9, which has known vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to breach the site. It is unknown if the forum was hacked using one of these vulnerabilities or if the site left an unsecured backup of the database online.
West Vancouver
August 28, 2018
•[ hack, malware, government ]
West Vancouver warns thousands of its residents after discovering hackers installed malicious software on the district server used to store personal information collected through its website. The attack was discovered on July 31.
Atlas
August 27, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Atlas, a popular Brazilian cryptocurrency investment platform is hacked. The personal information of over 264,000 of its customers is leaked, including 4,500 records that detail users' balances on the platform.
T-Mobile
August 23, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
T-Mobile reveals that hackers stole some of the personal data of 2 million people in a new data breach. The intrusion took place on August 20 when hackers accessed company servers through an API that "didn't contain any financial data or other sensitive data."
David Min
August 18, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
Reuters reveals that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a cyber attack on the congressional campaign of David Min, a Democratic candidate in California.
Bossier City
August 18, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Some Bossier City water customers may have had their information compromised due to a possible breach of an online billing payment system.
Hans Keirstead
August 15, 2018
•[ hack, cyberattack, government ]
Rolling Stone reveals that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a series of cyberattacks over the past year that targeted Dr. Hans Keirstead, a Democratic candidate in California.
Cosmos Bank
August 11, 2018
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Cyber criminals hack the systems of India's Cosmos Bank and siphon off nearly 944 million rupees ($13.5 million) through simultaneous withdrawals across 28 countries. Unidentified hackers stole customer information through a malware attack on its ATM server.
Confluence Health
July 28, 2018
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Confluence Health discloses a patient data breach after an employee email account is hacked on March 30 and May 28, 2018.
Liverpool FC
July 19, 2018
•[ hack, financial ]
Liverpool FC's fan database is hacked resulting in a serious data breach for around 150 supporters. The club confirms that season ticket holder information - including home addresses and bank details - were stolen from a club email account.
Pennsylvania Department of Health
July 13, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
A government spokesman reveals that the Pennsylvania Department of Health's birth certificate system was shut down for nearly a week last month after someone hacked into an internal website but did not take or alter citizens records.
