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.
TheTruthSpy
August 28, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
A hacker breaks into the servers of TheTruthSpy, one of the most notorious stalkerware companies out there, and stole logins, audio recordings, pictures, and text messages, among other data. The breach occurred on February 2018.
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.
Bank of Spain
August 26, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Hacktivists from Anonymous Catalonia claim to have taken down the website of Bank of Spain.
Schneider Electric
August 24, 2018
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Schneider Electric finds a malicious code on the USB drives that have been shipped with Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor products.
HTH Studios
August 24, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
In August 2018, the adult furry interactive game creator HTH Studios suffered a data breach impacting multiple repositories of customer data. Several months later, the data surfaced on a popular hacking forum and included 411k unique email addresses along with physical and IP addresses, names, orders, salted SHA-1 and salted MD5 hashes. HTH Studios is aware of the incident.
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."
Undisclosed cryptocurrency exchange
August 22, 2018
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Kaspersky Lab reveals the details of Operation AppleJeus, an attack against cryptocurrency exchanges carried out via a trojanized cryptocurrency trading application distributing the Fallchill malware.
Cheddar Scratch Kitchen
August 22, 2018
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Restaurants in 23 states belonging to Cheddar Scratch Kitchen are affected by a cyberattack that exposed payment card information. The amount of impacted card details is estimated to be 567,000 and were stolen between November 3, 2017, and January 2, 2018.
Animoto
August 20, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Animoto, a cloud-based video maker service for social media sites, reveals a data breach. The breach occurred on July 10 but was confirmed by the company in early August, and later reported to the California attorney general. Names, dates of birth and user email addresses were accesed by the hackers, but the company said it wasn't known if data had been exfiltrated.
Superdrug
August 20, 2018
•[ hack, retail ]
Superdrug confirms that hackers claim to have obtained the personal details of almost 20,000 individuals who shopped online at Superdrug.
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.
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.
Eastern Maine Community College
August 17, 2018
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor warns of a possible data breach that could have exposed the personal information of current and former staff and students. School officials notify 42,000 current and former students and employees that certain computers were recently infected with malware and may have been hacked.
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.
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.
Banks in Chile
July 25, 2018
•[ hack, leak, finance ]
Hackers from the Shadow Brokers gain access to some 14,000 credit card numbers in Chile and publish them on social media.
Krungthai Bank (KTB)
July 25, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Computer systems of Kasikornbank (Kbank) and Krungthai Bank (KTB) are compromised, affecting the security of the personal and corporate data of more than 120,000 customers.
