Lee County High School
August 24, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
A virtual Spanish class was interrupted with offensive content at Lee County High School.
Rialto Unified School District
August 24, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
A cyber-attack has shut down virtual classes in the Rialto Unified School District.
Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI)
August 22, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
The Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI), also known to be critical of the Indonesian government's coronavirus policies, is defaced.
Myerscough College
August 21, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
Myerscough College is hit with a cyber attack.
Freepik
August 21, 2020
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
Freepik says that hackers were able to steal emails and password hashes for 8.3 million Freepik and Flaticon users in an SQL injection attack against the company's Flaticon website.
Yunrun Big Data Service
August 20, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A group of hackers says they have obtained internal files from three Chinese social media monitoring companies. The victims are Knowlesys, Yunrun Big Data Service, and OneSight.
Olympia Valance
August 20, 2020
•[ hack ]
Australian actress Olympia Valance has fallen victim to a phone hack that resulted in private images being shared without her consent.
Unico Campania
August 19, 2020
•[ hack ]
In August 2020, the Neapolitan public transport website Unico Campania was hacked and the data extensively circulated. The breach contained 166k user records with email addresses and plain text passwords.
GCKey
August 17, 2020
•[ hack, brute-force, government ]
According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked. The hackers targeted GCKey, a service that is used by some 30 federal departments, with credential stuffing.
Baugo Community Schools
August 17, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Cyber attacks directed at the internent service for Baugo Community Schools have disrupted virtual learning.
Rochester City School District
August 15, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
The Rochester City School District's first parent forum of the 2020-2021 school year, which was held over Zoom, was interrupted by attackers posting racist comments and hurtful symbols.
Canada Revenue Agency
August 14, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
The Canada Revenue Agency was recently hit by two cyberattacks, compromising thousands of accounts linked to the agency's services. The agency confirmed on Saturday that as of Aug. 14, about 5,500 accounts had been affected by the separate attacks but that the breaches are now contained.
FuhrparkService (BWFU) transport fleet
August 14, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
Germany's Bundestag administration and federal parliamentarians were told Friday that unknown hackers had infiltrated the FuhrparkService (BWFU) transport fleet. The fleet is reportedly run by the German military and the hackers could have obtained parliamentarians' sensitive information.
Brown-Forman Corp.
August 14, 2020
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
Brown-Forman Corp., a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages including Jack Daniel's and Finlandia, said it was hit by a cyber-attack in which some information, including employee data, may have been impacted. The company, however, was able to prevent its systems from being encrypted.
Momentum Metropolitan
August 13, 2020
•[ hack, finance ]
Financial services group Momentum Metropolitan warns that a third party unlawfully accessed a limited portion of data of a subsidiary of the group.
Archer High School
August 12, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
A virtual class in Gwinnett County's Archer High School gets Zoom-bombed by two men.
Flintshire Council
August 12, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
Personal information of people who left comments about local planning issues on Flintshire council's website is hacked.
Pace Center for Girls
August 12, 2020
•[ hack, malware, education ]
The Pace Center for Girls has been hit by a data breach in the aftermath of the Blackbaud hack.
Adit
August 11, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
An unsecured database with 3.1 million patients' details is exposed by a medical software company and subsequently destroyed by a "meow" attack.
Luminate Education Group (LEG)
August 11, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
Luminate Education Group (LEG) is hit by a cyber attack, affecting Leeds City College, Keighley College, Harrogate College, Leeds Sixth Form College and University Centre Leeds.
