Loblaws
July 19, 2017
•[ hack, retail ]
According to an email sent out to Loblaws account holders, the security of a 'small number' of accounts has been compromised, marking the second time the company has suffered a security breach this year. Comprised websites include Loblaws.ca, Joefresh.com and Beautyboutique.ca.
South Carolina's Voter Registration System
July 16, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
According to a post-election report by the South Carolina State Election Commission, South Carolina's voter registration system was reportedly hit by almost 150,000 hack attempts on Election Day 2016.
Square Enix
July 14, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Square Enix attributes the connectivity issues that have plagued Final Fantasy 14's Stormblood expansion since its release in June on continuous distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks from a third party.
Mansfield 103.2
July 11, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
The UK Communications Regulator (Ofcom) is hunting a pirate who persistently overrides frequency of Mansfield 103.2 to play a modified version of "The Winker's Song".
Community Care of St. Catharines and Thorold
July 11, 2017
•[ hack, malware ]
Community Care of St. Catharines and Thorold notifies to be still recovering from a cyberattack that shut its computers down for more than a week.
Avanti Markets
July 8, 2017
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Avanti Markets, a self-service payment kiosks vendors acknowledges to have suffered of breach of its internal networks in which hackers were able to push malicious software out to payment devices.
Deep Hosting
July 8, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Deep Hosting, a Dark Web hosting service, admits to have suffered a major security incident during which "some sites have been exported".
gandi
July 7, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
French domain registrar Gandi loses control over 751 customer domains, which have their DNS records altered to point incoming traffic to websites hosting exploits kits.
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation
June 30, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, energy ]
A threat actor targeted employees of companies that operate nuclear power plants in the United States, which prompted the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to issue an alert to the industry. An administrative network of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation was compromised.
Bithumb
June 29, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
The largest bitcoin and ether exchange in South Korea by volume, Bithumb, is hacked. The losses could be in the billions of won.
8tracks
June 27, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2017, the online playlists service known as 8Tracks suffered a data breach which impacted 18 million accounts. In their disclosure, 8Tracks advised that "the vector for the attack was an employees GitHub account, which was not secured using two-factor authentication". Salted SHA-1 password hashes for users who didn't sign up with either Google or Facebook authentication were also included. The data was provided to HIBP by whitehat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies and contained almost 8 million unique email addresses. The complete set of 18M records was later provided by JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com and updated in HIBP accordingly.
UK Parliament
June 23, 2017
•[ hack, brute-force, government ]
Up to 90 email accounts are compromised amid a brute-force cyber-attack on UK Parliament.
Illinois State Board of Elections
June 22, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
New details emerge about the alleged hacks before the 2016 elections. Ken Menzel, general counsel of the State Board of Elections, reveals that nearly 90,000 records containing personal information were accessed by Russian hackers, with 90 percent of those records containing some kind of personal information.
Skype
June 21, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A hacking group called CyberTeam claims responsibility for a DDoS attack against Skype.
Election systems in 21 US states
June 21, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Jeanette Manfra of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), during her testimony before a Senate panel, reveals that Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 US states during last year's campaign.
admin
June 20, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker calling himself Vigilance hacks a database belonging to the Minnesota state government, and steals about 1,400 email addresses and passwords.
Argentinian Army Website
June 19, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Argentina's army says that its website has been hacked and images purported to be of members of the Islamic State militant group were posted on it.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
June 18, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
It looks like two months before the U.S. Presidential Elections. MoRo, a group of hackers from Morocco allegedly tried to hack the US voting systems. In an attempt, they hacked four school districts from Florida, including the Miami-Dade School District.
ATMs in India
June 14, 2017
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
ATMs in India are under attack via Rufus, a Chinese malware targeting cash machines running outdated Windows XP.
Al Jazeera Media Network
June 8, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The websites and digital platforms of Al Jazeera Media Network are undergoing "systematic and continual hacking attempts". Internal sources reveal that the network is facing a DDoS attack.
