Rivermend Health
October 10, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Rivermend Health notifies 1,300 patients who had information in an employee's email account that was compromised.
Forrester Research
October 6, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Forrester, one of the world's leading market research and investment advisory firms, admits that a security breach took place during the past week. An unidentified attacker (or attackers) has gained access to the infrastructure hosting its website stealing site credentials and proprietary research.
Disqus
October 6, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Disqus confirms a data breach that appears to have taken place in the summer of 2012, and during which an unknown attacker(s) made off with details for at least 17.5 million user accounts.
John Kelly's personal cellphone
October 5, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
White House officials believe that chief of staff John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December, according to three U.S. government officials.
4,000 NATO soldiers
October 4, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Russian hackers have so far accessed the phones of 4,000 NATO troops in Europe.
Etherparty
October 1, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Hackers disrupt the Etherparty ICO (Initial Coin Offering) after hijacking the platform's website, displaying their own Ethereum address, tricking 59 ICO participants into sending funds to the wrong wallets.
Legendas.TV
October 1, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration ]
In October 2017, the now defunct Brazilian service for retrieving subtitles in Portuguese Legendas.TV suffered a data breach that exposed nearly 4M customer records. The impacted data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses and unsalted SHA-1 hashes.
North Korea's Reconaissance General Bureau
September 30, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
U.S. government officials told the Washington Post that the United States had launched a denial of service campaign against North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, the country's intelligence agency.
national-lottery
September 30, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Camelot reveals that a DDoS attack took down the website of the National Lottery.
R6DB
September 30, 2017
•[ ransomware, hack ]
R6DB, a fan-powered online gaming service that provides statistics for players of Ubisoft's tactical FPS Rainbow Six Siege, is hit by hackers, who wipe its databases and hold the data for ransom.
Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority (GEA)
September 29, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority (GEA), says that its website had been the target of cyber attacks from outside the kingdom.
San Ysidro School District
September 29, 2017
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Malware infects the San Ysidro School District, deleting emails and forcing the district to temporarily shut down part of its systems.
Danish Ministry Foreign Affairs
September 28, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Ministry of Immigration and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, are hit by a DDoS attack thought to have come from a Turkish hacker group dubbed Aslan Neferler Tim.
Auburn Eye Care Associates
September 26, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
TheDarkOverlord reveal another hack involving patient data. This time the victim is Auburn Eye Care Associates, despite the original hack dating back to June.
showtimeanytime
September 25, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Two Showtime domains are found serving Coinhive, a JavaScript library that mines Monero using the CPU resources of users visiting Showtime's websites. It is not clear if the event is the consegue of a hack or an experiment.
SMART Physical Therapy
September 23, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
SMART ("Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy") Physical Therapy is the n-th victim of The Dark Overlord.
The Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO)
September 19, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The Irish National Teachers Organisation warns users of its online learning portal that their personal data may have been compromised following the hacking of the website. Around 30,000 users details were potentially compromised by the hack.
Augusta Medical Center
September 18, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Nearly five months after it happened, Augusta Medical Center announces that some patients may have had their personal information compromised by an attack on faculty email accounts.
Road Sign in Modesto
September 10, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
An electronic road sign in the city of Modesto, California is hacked and defaced with a message against President Donald Trump.
Children's Hospital Colorado
September 9, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Children's Hospital Colorado notifies 3,400 families after an employee's email account was improperly accessed on July 11, 2017.
