Nicole Scherzinger Instagram account
September 16, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
The Instagram account of singer-songwriter Nicole Scherzinger is hacked.
Lumin PDF
September 16, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
The details of over 24.3 million Lumin PDF users have been shared today on a hacking forum
Hungarian Development Center (MFK)
September 13, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
The Hungarian Development Center is hit by a cyber attack allegedly carried out by hackers from North Korea.
US Manufacturing Company
September 9, 2019
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Researchers at Fortinet uncover a malspam campaign aimed to distribute the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)
September 6, 2019
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is hit by a DDoS attack.
Wikipedia
September 6, 2019
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Wikipedia is forced offline in several countries after a cyber attack hits the global encyclopedia.
Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System (OLERS) Agency
September 6, 2019
•[ financial, hack, phishing ]
Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System (OLERS) Agency reveals that cyber-thieves made off with $4.2 million. The theft occurred on August 26, 2019, when the perpetrators managed to hack into the email account of an investment manager.
Robert Downey Jr. Instagram account
September 6, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
The Instagram account of Robert Downey Jr. is hacked. The attackers post fake giveaways for Apple products.
World of Warcraft Classic
September 6, 2019
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
World of Warcraft Classic is also hit by a DDoS attack.
Zynga
September 1, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In September 2019, game developer Zynga (the creator of Words with Friends) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 173M unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
EpicBot
September 1, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In September 2019, the RuneScape bot provider EpicBot suffered a data breach that impacted 817k subscribers. Data from the breach was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and included usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either salted MD5 or bcrypt hashes. EpicBot did not respond when contacted about the incident.
University of Ghana accommodation registration portal
August 30, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
The University of Ghana accommodation registration portal is hacked, redirecting students to a wrong site to register.
Foxit Software
August 30, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, announces that hackers breached its servers and made off with some user information.
Imperva
August 27, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Imperva discloses a security incident that impacts customers of its cloud Web Application Firewall. Apparently the intruders made off with customer API keys and SSL certificates.
Lumber Liquidators
August 27, 2019
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Lumber Liquidators reveals that a malware attack took down its network. The attack occurred on August 21.
Australian PayID users
August 26, 2019
•[ hack, brute-force, finance ]
Tens of thousands of Australians have had their personal banking information hacked by fraudsters, after fraudulent accounts worked to generate a series of random numbers and retrieve the victims' PayID details.
Hostinger
August 25, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Hostinger discloses a security incident that impacted its platform and users. A hacker gained access to an internal server, where he found an authorization token for an internal API used to retrieve information about up to 14 million clients.
Lyons Companies
August 23, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, manufacturing ]
Lyons Companies announces that two employee email accounts were accessed without authorization between February 4 and March 12, 2019.
Alberta Health Services
August 22, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Alberta Health Services warns 7,000 patients their personal health information is compromised in an email hack.
Unnamed leading India-based healthcare website
August 22, 2019
•[ healthcare, hack ]
Researchers from FireEye reveal that back in February, a hacker broke into a leading India-based healthcare website, stealing 6.8 million records containing patient and doctor information.
