Schuyler County Sheriff's Department
September 8, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Schuyler County Sheriff's Department is disrupted by a hacking attack.
Catholic United Financial
September 6, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
An unknown attacker accesses nearly 130K accounts at Catholic United Financial. The attack happened on September 6th.
West Australian TAFE
September 5, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
An attacker infiltrates the systems of a West Australian TAFE on August 28 and September 5 and accesses the sensitive personal details of staff and more than 13,000 students.
Julia Kloeckner Website
September 4, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Julia Kloeckner, a top leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party says her website has been hit by thousands of cyber attacks -- many from Russian IP addresses -- ahead of the television election debate between Merkel and her opponent, Social Democratic leader Martin Schulz.
Verrit
September 4, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Verrit, a political fact-checking site is DDoSed almost immediately after it was endorsed by Hillary Clinton.
Hand Rehabilitation Specialists
September 1, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Hand Rehabilitation Specialists notifies patients of a possible hack by The Dark Overlord that occurred back in July.
Purdue University Pharmacy
September 1, 2017
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Patients of the Purdue University Pharmacy and the Family Health Clinic of Carroll County receive notices that their information might be compromised because of a security breach. A malicious file was installed on some computers on September 1st.
WikiLeaks
August 31, 2017
•[ hack ]
WikiLeaks' website appears to have been hacked by the OurMine collective.
CeX
August 29, 2017
•[ hack, retail ]
Second-hand electronics dealership CeX notifies 2 million customers that their personal information may have been compromised by hackers.
The Young Illustrator Award site administered by Meridian Secondary School
August 29, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The Young Illustrator Award site administered by Meridian Secondary School is taken down after being hacked.
Zazzle
August 28, 2017
•[ hack, brute-force, retail ]
Zazzle sends an email to customers revealing that hackers in June used brute-force techniques to cycle through account usernames and passwords that were stolen from a breach of another unnamed site.
Real Madrid Twitter Account
August 28, 2017
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Real Madrid's official Twitter account is hacked with a post announcing the signing of rival Lionel Messi appearing on their feed.
Selena Gomez Instagram account
August 28, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Selena Gomez's Instagram account is hacked and posts several nude photos of Justin Bieber.
Unnamed Bitcoin exchange in South Korea
August 24, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, finance ]
The CWIC Cyber Warfare Research Center in South Korea reveals that a domestic exchange for bitcoin has been the target of an attempted hacking. Suspects are directed to North Korea.
Crystal Finance Millennium
August 23, 2017
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Hackers breach the servers of Crystal Finance Millennium (CFM), another Ukraine company that makes accounting software for local businesses, sparking fear of a new global cyberattack.
Official PlayStation Twitter account
August 21, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
The official Twitter and Facebook PlayStation accounts are taken over by the hacking group OurMine. The attackers also claim to have managed to access a PSN database.
National Health Service
August 18, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
A member of the Anonymous hacking collective claims to have stolen data belonging to 1.2 million patients of the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). The breach affected SwiftQueue, a software provider of dashboard and metrics solutions to healthcare providers.
"Girls" Twitter account
August 17, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Several HBO Twitter accounts are taken over by the notorious OurMine hacking group, posting #HBOHacked messages and warnings about security. Affected accounts include the main HBO Twitter account, as well as those for TV shows including Game of Thrones and Girls.
Blizzard Entertainment
August 15, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The web servers of Blizzard Entertainment suffer a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Scottish Parliament
August 15, 2017
•[ hack, brute-force, government ]
Officials reveal that the Scottish Parliament has been targeted by a "brute force" cyber attack. The attack, from "external sources", was similar to that which affected Westminster in June.
