Unknown Organization
February 21, 2018
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
The University of Virginia Health System notifies almost 2,000 patients that their health records may have been exposed when an unauthorized third party implanted malware on a staffer's computer active between May 2015 and December 2016.
HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website
February 20, 2018
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
The HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website is hacked and approximately 685,000 user profiles are affected. A senior moderator's account has been compromised by an unidentified hacker, and used to access the user profiles since September 2017.
Roomsurf
February 16, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Roomsurf notifies its users of a data breach in which the attacker has been able to obtain usernames, phone numbers, and email addresses.
Unnamed Russian bank
February 16, 2018
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
The Russian Central Bank reveals that unknown hackers stole 339.5 million roubles ($6 million) from a Russian bank last year in an attack using the SWIFT international payments messaging system.
White and Bright Family Dental
February 16, 2018
•[ hack, healthcare ]
White and Bright Family Dental notifies patients of a hack occurred on January 30, 2018.
Atos
February 14, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Reports emerge that the Olympic Destroyer malware might be used months before to target Atos, the IT provider of Winter Olympics.
Western Union
February 14, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Western Union warns that some customers' information may have been accessed without authorization as a result of a computer intrusion against an external vendor system formerly used by Western Union for secure data storage.
Advertisement screen in London
February 13, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
And the last victim of the cryptocurrency frenzy is an advertisement screen in London that is infected by a miner.
Idaho Transportation Department (ITD)
February 12, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
A hack of two email accounts at the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) potentially exposes the personal information of commercial truckers whose rigs are registered in Idaho, including Social Security and credit card numbers.
Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
February 10, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizers confirm that the Games had fallen victim to a cyber attack during Friday's opening ceremony, but they refused to reveal the source. US intelligence the attack was carried by Russia while trying to make it appear as though North Korea was responsible.
Decatur County General Hospital
February 8, 2018
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons, Tenn., publicly discloses that an unauthorized party accessed the server for its electronic medical record system and secretly implanted cryptomining malware.
Business Wire
February 7, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Press release network Business Wire admits suffering an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack lasting a week.
Italian Democratic Party (PD)
February 6, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
The AnonPlus hacker group says they have hacked the Florence branch of the Italian centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and leaked data regarding leader Matteo Renzi online.
Province of Milan
February 6, 2018
•[ hack, government ]
The same hackers also claim to have hacked the website of Provincia di Milano (Province of Milan) in Italy.
Partners HealthCare System
February 5, 2018
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Partners HealthCare System reveals to have discovered a malware attack, occurred in May, 2017 that may have exposed 2,600 patients' information.
University of Northern Colorado
February 5, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
The private information of 12 University of Northern Colorado employees is compromised after an "unknown person or group" accessed their profiles on Ursa, UNC's online portal.
Jobandtalent
February 1, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately February 2018, the employment website Jobandtalent suffered a data breach which then appeared for sale alongside other breaches a year later. The incident impacted 11 million subscribers and exposed their names, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.
GoGet
January 31, 2018
•[ hack, automotive ]
Car-sharing company GoGet discloses a major data breach seven months after it was first detected in June 2017 as the alleged hacker is arrested by Australian police this week. In an email sent to customers, the firm says its IT team identified "unauthorised activity" on its system on 27 June last year and immediately launched a full internal investigation.
ABN Ambro
January 30, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
ABN Ambro is targeted by a new DDoS attack. Now the fingers are pointed to Russia.
ING
January 30, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
And during the same wave of DDoS attacks, also ING is targeted (once again).
