Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA)
February 8, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
15,000 data files of Taiwanese nationals could have been hacked due to an intrusion in the email system.
National Treasury Management Agency
February 7, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The National Treasury Management Agency temporarily suspends access to its website for several hours today after a suspected defacement attack.
Austrian Parliament
February 7, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Austria's parliament says that a Turkish hackers' group dubbed Aslan Neferler Tim (ANT), or Lion Soldiers Team has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that brought down its website for 20 minutes during the weekend.
Canadian Tire
February 7, 2017
•[ hack, retail ]
Canadian Tire shuts down customer access to online accounts after detecting unusual traffic in their website.
Six NHS Websites
February 7, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
The Independent reveals that, over the past six weeks, six NHS websites were defaced showing gruesome images of the conflict in Syria with the hashtags: #Op_Russia and #save_aleppo.
Email accounts of Irish solicitors
February 5, 2017
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
The Sunday Independent reveals that cybercriminals are hacking the email accounts of Irish solicitors in an attempt to steal tens of thousands of euro from unsuspecting home buyers.
Police Security Service
February 4, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
A threat actor targeted the computer networks of the Norwegian government: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the army, a nuclear radiation protection agency, and a parliamentary group.
Norwegian Labour Party
February 3, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Norway's security service says nine email accounts including those belonging to the Labour party, the foreign ministry and defense ministry have been targeted by hackers belonging to APT29.
Sunny 107.9 WFBS-LPFM
January 31, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Another station is hijacked to play the "F*** Donald Trump" song.
CD Projekt Red
January 31, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
CD Projekt Red, the Poland-based developer behind the popular 'Witcher' game and comic series, is hit with a forum hack that compromised over 1.8 million user credentials. The hack allegedly took place in March of last year.
Xbox 360 ISO Forums
January 31, 2017
•[ hack, malware ]
An unidentified hacker reportedly breaches the XBOX 360 and PlayStation Portable ISO forums compromising 2.5 million gamer accounts. The breach is unconfirmed.
Freedom Hosting II
January 31, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2017, the free hidden service host Freedom Hosting II suffered a data breach. The attack allegedly took down 20% of dark web sites running behind Tor hidden services with the attacker claiming that of the 10,613 impacted sites, more than 50% of the content was child pornography. The hack led to the exposure of MySQL databases for the sites which included a vast amount of information on the hidden services Freedom Hosting II was managing. The impacted data classes far exceeds those listed for the breach and differ between the thousands of impacted sites.
Polish Foreign Ministry
January 30, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita reveals that the hack against the Polish Foreign Ministry that occurred in December was probably orchestrated by APT28.
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
January 27, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) investigate a computer security breach at the Australian Synchrotron that saw hackers steal scientists' usernames and passwords.
Princeton Pain Management
January 27, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Princeton Pain Management is notifying 4,668 patients of a hack that was detected on November 28. Although they found no evidence that data were removed from their system, protected health information (PHI) was accessed.
Hong Kong securities brokers
January 26, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Hong Kong's securities regulator says that brokers in the city have suffered major DDoS cyber attacks and warns of possible further incidents across the industry.
Grey Eagle Resort and Casino
January 26, 2017
•[ hack ]
Grey Eagle Resort and Casino is hacked and the attackers threaten to dump hundreds of gigabytes of data. The Casino confirms the breach.
Dr. Web
January 25, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
In the past week, two security firms, Dr.Web and Emsisoft, suffered DDoS attacks at the hands of cyber-criminals who attempted to bring down their websites as payback for meddling with their illegal activities.
Swedish Armed Forces
January 25, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports that Sweden's armed forces were recently exposed to an extensive cyber attack that prompted them to shut down an the Caxcis IT system, used in military exercises.
U.S. Cellular
January 25, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
DoubleFlag now claims to sell a database containing 126 million customer records from U.S. Cellular. The company denies the hack.
