Internal Revenue Service
April 6, 2017
•[ government, hack, social ]
The Internal Revenue Service says that the personal data of as many as 100,000 taxpayers could have been compromised through a scheme in which hackers posed as students using an online tool to apply for financial aid.
Defense Integrated Data Center
April 5, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
North Korean hackers have reportedly accessed OPlan 5027, the secretive war-plans drawn up by South Korea and the United States, detailing how the allied military forces would respond to the outbreak of war in the region " including first strike targets and troop deployments.
Unnamed Brazilian bank
April 4, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, finance ]
Kaspersky reveals that on October 2016, a group of hackers rerouted all the traffic of an unnamed Brazilian bank's customers to perfectly reconstructed fakes of the bank's properties.
German Bundeswehr (armed forces)
April 2, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The head of the German military's new cyber command, Lieutenant General Ludwig Leinhos, reveals that army computers were targeted hundreds of thousands of times in the first nine weeks of 2017.
New York Post
April 1, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
The New York Post issues an apology after its app is hacked in an April Fool's Day prank and sends out a flurry of bizarre news alerts including one that read, "Heil President Donald Trump".
Dueling Network
March 29, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2017, the Flash game based on the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game Dueling Network suffered a data breach. The site itself was taken offline in 2016 due to a cease-and-desist order but the forum remained online for another year. The data breach exposed usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "burger vault".
Wind Tre
March 20, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Italy's data protection authority, Garante Privacy, has ordered Wind Tre to write to customers to notify them of a data breach following a cyber attack that occurred on 20 March.
boaec
March 15, 2017
•[ hack ]
The Anonymous deface the official website of Boa Esporte, a second division football club in the state of Minas Gerais, after the team hired goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes das Dores de Souza convicted for murdering his ex-girlfriend.
Wishbone App
March 15, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers steal 2.2 million email addresses and 287,000 cellphone numbers from popular teen quiz App Wishbone users, many of whom are young women under the age of 18.
Statistics Canada
March 14, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Canadian government confirms that the Statistics Canada website is hacked and taken offline for over two days. In the aftermath of the cyberattack parts of the Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) site is also reportedly taken offline by authorities as a precaution.
fifthharmony
March 12, 2017
•[ hack ]
A Kurdish hacker going by the online handle of "Rekan Error" defaces the official website of Fifth Harmony, an American girl group formed on the second season of The X Factor US in July 2012 and posts messages against ISIS and Turkey.
Verifone
March 7, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
Credit and debit card payments giant Verifone investigates a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of companies running its point-of-sale solutions.
Advertisement board in Mexico City
March 4, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
A digital advertisement board owned by Grupo Carteleras located on a busy road in Mexico City is hacked on Friday and features a pornographic video for a few minutes.
Radio Station WZZY-FM
March 2, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Radio station WZZY-FM falls victim to a prank when hackers access its computer systems and begin broadcasting fake news alerts of a zombie attack, along with a disease outbreak caused by the resulting carnage.
Unknown Organization
March 2, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, retail ]
South Korea's Lotte Duty Free website (lottedfs.com) is taken down by a DDoS attack orchestrated from a Chinese IP.
Kennesaw State University
March 1, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of a Kennesaw State University server.
Singapore's Ministry of Defence (Mindef)
February 28, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Singapore's Ministry of Defence (Mindef) confirms that the personal details more than 850 national servicemen and employees were stolen in a "targeted and well-planned" cyberattack earlier this month.
Luxembourg government servers
February 27, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Luxembourg government's servers are hit in a massive DDoS attack that lasts over 24 hours. The attack is believed to have affected over a hundred websites hosted by the government's servers.
St. Mary's Catholic Academy
February 26, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Hackers break into CCTV systems of at least four British schools and stream footage of pupils live on the internet. St. Mary's Catholic Academy and Christ The King Academy Primary School are two fo the victims.
Roberts Hawaii
February 26, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
The tour company Roberts Hawaii warns its customers about a security breach that may have affected people who purchased tours and other services on its website between July 2015 and December 2016.
