Blizzard Entertainment
July 7, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard Entertainment is hit by a DDoS attack. Players of Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, and World of Warcraft are affected.
Australian National University
July 6, 2018
•[ hack, espionage, education ]
China-based hackers have successfully infiltrated the IT systems at the Australian National University, potentially compromising the home of Australia's leading national security college and key defence research projects.
MSK Group
July 5, 2018
•[ hack, healthcare ]
MSK Group notifies patients of a data security incident that they discovered on May 7, due to an unauthorized access to certain parts of the network at times over several month.
Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP)
July 3, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) official website is defaced by Chinese hackers and the website is replaced with pictures and words reading "Chinese netizens are supporting Tsai Ing-wen to run for re-election" in simplified Chinese characters.
Whitbread
July 2, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Whitbread's online recruitment system has suffered a data breach, affecting a number of the company's brands including Premier Inn, and the UK outlets of Costa Coffee. The breach is a consequence of the attack to PageUp.
Hunt Regional Medical Center
June 29, 2018
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Hunt Regional Medical Center notifies patients of a possible breach due to the hack of an employee email occurred on May 1st, 2018.
Algonquin College
June 29, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
The Algonquin College publishes a note indicating that the education community is still not sure how many current and former students and employees could be affected by a cyber attack that happened weeks earlier.
Klook Travel
June 29, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Klook Travel informs its users about a data breach incident it suffered. The attackers exploited a malicious JS code associated with SOCIAPlus, a third-party tool integrated on the site.
GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux distribution
June 28, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
An unknown hacker temporarily takes control over the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux organization and embed malicious code inside the operating system's distributions that would delete user files. The malicious code fails to trigger properly and users' remain safe.
Official website of Ernakulam Siva Temple
June 28, 2018
•[ hack ]
The official website of Ernakulam Siva Temple is defaced with anti-national slogans and offensive language besides a Pakistan flag.
South Eastern Regional College (SERC)
June 28, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Personal information of hundreds of staff at the South Eastern Regional College is compromised after detecting suspicious email activity as the consequence of a hack.
Red Hen Restaurant
June 27, 2018
•[ hack, retail ]
Researchers from Malwarebytes discover that the Red Hen restaurant that refused to serve Sarah Sanders is hit by a SEO Spam cyberattack.
Z Energy Ltd
June 27, 2018
•[ hack, energy ]
New Zealand-based fuel supplier Z Energy Ltd says it has been presented with evidence that customer data from its Z Card Online database was accessed by a third party in November 2017.
Cyanweb Solutions
June 27, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Digital marketing and web provider Cyanweb Solutions loses nearly all customer data and backups after a "criminal hacking incident" that compromises one of its servers.
Light's Hope
June 25, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
In June 2018, the World of Warcraft service Light's Hope suffered a data breach which they subsequently self-submitted to HIBP. Over 30K unique users were impacted and their exposed data included email addresses, dates of birth, private messages and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
Midwest City
June 24, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Midwest City, Oklahoma, reports that about 2,300 customers are potentially affected by a breach involving Superion's software Click2Gov.
PDQ
June 22, 2018
•[ hack, financial ]
PDQ, a fast-casual dining restaurant warns customers about a cyber attack on its computer systems in which hackers were able to access or acquire personal information from the chain's customers who paid with credit cards. The breach lasted nearly a year, from May 19, 2017 to April 20, 2018.
Indian businessman
June 22, 2018
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
The email of a city-based businessman is hacked and INR12.5 lakh (USD 18,230) stolen and transferred to two bank accounts in China.
Humana
June 21, 2018
•[ hack, brute-force, healthcare ]
Health insurer Humana notifies an unspecified number of health plan members after detecting and blocking a credential stuffing attack against Humana.com and Go365.com. The attacks took place on June 3 and June 4 from overseas IP addresses.
CarePartners
June 18, 2018
•[ hack, healthcare ]
CarePartners' computer system is breached and as a result patient and employee information including personal health and financial information, are inappropriately accessed.
