Milton Keynes Council
July 22, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
The planning portal of Milton Keynes Council is crippled by a cyber attack.
Cracked.to
July 21, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In July 2019, the hacking website Cracked.to suffered a data breach. There were 749k unique email addresses spread across 321k forum users and other tables in the database. A rival hacking website claimed responsibility for breaching the MyBB based forum which disclosed email and IP addresses, usernames, private messages and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
Jessica Alba's Twitter Account
July 20, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
Jessica Alba's Twitter Account is hacked and starts to post racial tweets.
Midlands Technical College
July 19, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Cyber criminals hit Midlands Technical College computers with a malware.
Metropolitan Police's Twitter account
July 19, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
The Metropolitan Police's Twitter account is hit by hackers who post a series of bizarre messages. The breach is due to the compromise of the MyNewsDesk platform.
Henry County
July 18, 2019
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Henry County is hit by a malware attack.
Edgepark Medical Supplies
July 18, 2019
•[ hack, brute-force, manufacturing ]
Edgepark Medical Supplies notifies 6,572 patients after a "password spray attack" occurred in May 2019.
62 universities
July 17, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Hackers target the systems of 62 colleges and universities by exploiting a vulnerability in third-party software used by the universities.
Flash Flash Revolution (2019 breach)
July 16, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In July 2019, the music-based rhythm game Flash Flash Revolution suffered a data breach. The 2019 breach imapcted almost 1.9 million members and is in addition to the 2016 data breach of the same service. Email and IP addesses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 hashes were all exposed in the breach. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com.
Joshua Wong
July 16, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
Google warns Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong about government-backed hacking attempts.
University of Alabama
July 16, 2019
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Alabama discovers a 2009 computer security incident involving a server for Brewer-Porch Children's Center. The server was accessed by outside hackers who got hold of 1,400 former clients, employees and medical providers.
Sprint
July 16, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
US mobile network operator Sprint says hackers broke into an unknown number of customer accounts via the Samsung.com "add a line" website. The breach occurred on June 22.
Bulgaria National Revenue Agency (NRA).
July 15, 2019
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker steals the personal details of millions of Bulgarians and emails download links to local news publications. The data is believed to come from the country's National Revenue Agency (NRA). Kristian Boykov, a 20-year-old IT technician is arrested.
BlackSpigotMC
July 14, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In July 2019, the hacking website BlackSpigotMC suffered a data breach. The XenForo forum based site was allegedly compromised by a rival hacking website and resulted in 8.5GB of data being leaked including the database and website itself. The exposed data included 140k unique email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, genders, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
Bitpoint
July 12, 2019
•[ hack, finance ]
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint suspends all services after losing about 3.5 billion yen ($32 million) in a hack that involved Ripple and other cryptocurrencies.
Unknown Organization
July 12, 2019
•[ hack, finance ]
MyDashWallet.org recommends that its users remove any funds from their wallets as the site has been compromised for the past two months, between May 13 and July 12.
Arlington County
July 10, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
Arlington County has revealed a cyber attack that penetrated the county's payroll system. The attack is the result of phishing.
A vessel on an international voyage bound for the Port of New York.
July 8, 2019
•[ hack ]
The US Cost Guard publishes an alert after it was made aware of a cyber-security incident that impacted a vessel on an international voyage bound for the Port of New York.
Planet Calypso
July 1, 2019
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In approximately July 2019, the forums for the Planet Calypso game suffered a data breach. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
PCM Inc.
June 27, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
An intrusion at PCM Inc., a cloud solution provider, allows hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company?s clients. PCM discovered the intrusion in mid-May 2019. The attackers stole administrative credentials for Office 365.
