US Department of Veterans Affairs Financial Services Center
September 14, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
The personal information of around 46,000 veterans was exposed during a hack, the US Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday. One of the online apps for the VA Financial Services Center "was accessed by unauthorized users" who diverted payments that were meant to go to health care providers for veterans' medical treatment.
Brooklyn Defender Services
September 13, 2020
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
Brooklyn Defender Services has identified a data breach in which an unauthorized third-party gained access to some employees' email accounts.
AspenPointe
September 12, 2020
•[ hack, leak, healthcare ]
AspenPointe, a Colorado provider of outpatient and inpatient crisis, mental health, substance abuse, and behavioral services suffered a data breach in September that involved the exfiltration of certain information including name, date of birth, Social Security number, driver's license number, and/or bank account information.
CU Collections
September 12, 2020
•[ hack, finance ]
CU Collecions was the victim of a cyber attack, enabling unauthorized parties to access personal information and financial information.
Secure Data Technologies, Inc.
September 11, 2020
•[ hack, insider, leak ]
Secure Data Technologies, Inc. sued a former employee for hacking the company's emai system and removing confidential and proprietary information.
xHamster
September 11, 2020
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Malsmoke places malvertising on the adult site xHamster as part of a broader malvertising campaign across adult ad networks.
Chesterfield County Public Schools
September 11, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Unknown users are disrupting virtual classrooms in Chesterfield County public schools.
California Employment Development Department
September 10, 2020
•[ financial, hack, brute-force ]
The California Employment Development Department reveals that cyber criminals have been collecting credentials from breaches worldwide to fraudulently collect California unemployment benefits.
NorthShore University HealthSystem
September 10, 2020
•[ hack, healthcare ]
NorthShore University HealthSystem said the personal information of about 348,000 people may have been exposed as a result of the Blackbaud hack.
Trinity West Elementary School
September 9, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
A hacker was able to access a virtual classroom at Trinity West Elementary School and introduce offensive comments.
Toledo Public Schools
September 9, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Toledo Public Schools also experience a security breach where a hacker got ahold of a classroom passcode and broke in to post racially and sexually offensive comments.
China's UK Ambassador Twitter account.
September 9, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
The Twitter account of China's Ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming,is hacked.
Fort Dodge Community School District
September 9, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
The Fort Dodge Community School District is the victim of a cyberattack.
Unnamed Philippine bank
September 9, 2020
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
The Philippines National Bureau of Investigation has arrested four Nigerian nationals for alleged involvement in a syndicate that hacks and siphons funds from banks. The fraudsters' were found after hacking into a Philippine banks and transferring P100 million to a different account.
San Juan Regional Medical Center
September 8, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
San Juan Regional Medical Center suffers an exploitive attack in which the personal and medical information of nearly 70,000 patients was stolen from servers.
Pickens County School District
September 8, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
The Pickens County School District said that the recent outages on school and student devices were caused by a DDoS attack on servers tasked with running Pickens County School District Online Services.
Toledo Public Schools
September 8, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Toledo Public Schools experienced an apparent DDoS attack at the beginning of September.
Parisian court system
September 5, 2020
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Emotet malware has infected the computers on the network of the Parisian court system.
Tower Semiconductors
September 5, 2020
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
Israeli chip manufacturer Tower Semiconductors TSEM.TA said on Sunday some of its systems were hit by a cyber attack and as a result it was putting on hold some servers and manufacturing operations.
Steve Fisher
September 4, 2020
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
An Australian homebuyer, Steve Fisher, had a $90,000 house payment intercepted by hackers and transferred to a different account.
