County websites of the Wisconsin Democratic Party
January 24, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Websites of the Democratic Party in the Wisconsin area are hacked by alleged Russian Hackers.
Lloyds Bank
January 23, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The Financial Times reveals that Lloyds Bank has been targeted by a large scale DDoS attack over the past two weeks. Two crooks claims responsibility for the attack.
XP Investimentos SA
January 23, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
Hackers who stole data from 29,000 clients of XP Investimentos SA allegedly tried to get the Brazilian independent securities firm to pay 22.5 million reais ($7.1 million) to keep the security breach secret.
Racingpulse
January 21, 2017
•[ ransomware, hack, malware ]
A popular horse racing website (Racingpulse.in) is hacked with ransomware.
Sundance Film Festival
January 21, 2017
•[ hack, entertainment ]
The box office and other systems at the Sundance Film Festival are shut down by hackers.
Laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal
January 17, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Korea Times reveals the details of an attempt made by oversea attackers to hack into a laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal.
MrExcel
January 16, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
MrExcel.com reveals that its forum has been compromised on the morning of December 6, 2016.
Barts Health Trust
January 16, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Barts health trust, which runs five hospitals in east London: the Royal London, St Bartholomew's, Whipps Cross, Mile End and Newham, is hit by a cyberattack.
Dracut Public Schools
January 15, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Current and former employees' personal information, including SSN, is acquired by a hacker after an employee falls for what the district describes as a "sophisticated phishing scheme."
University of Maryland School of Medicine
January 13, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
A doctor's practice plan affiliated with the University of Maryland School of Medicine notifies patients that somebody hacked the account of a physician assistant's email account that contained the personal information of patients. 1500 patients are affected.
Little Red Door Cancer Services of East Central Indiana
January 11, 2017
•[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Dark Overlord hacks the computers of an Indiana-based cancer agency and asks for a large payment of 50 Bitcoin ($44,800) not to release the data. Initially the attack seemed to have been caused by ransomware.
Thai governmental job portal
January 10, 2017
•[ hack, leak, government ]
The Anonymous kick off another run of #OpSingleGateway and take down multiple governmental job portals, leaking personal and sensitive details of officials and job seekers.
http://forumserver
January 9, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
The operators of the world's largest online poker discussion forum, TwoPlusTwo, confirm that the forum was hacked at some point late in 2016, with the personal data then being offered for sale.
Princeton University
January 7, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Princeton University is one of the 27,000 victims that have their data wiped by attackers leveraging a vulnerable MongoDB.
Arizona Department of Administration
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Arizona officials investigate how and when several computers used by state legislators and their staffs became infected with malware.
Square Enix's European Twitter Account (@SQUARE_ENIX_EU)
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Video game giant Square Enix's European Twitter account is hacked by a group of hackers calling themselves the "cyberwolfgang" and posts multiple tweets mocking other companies including rival gaming company EA, media outlet TechCrunch .
123-Reg
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
123-Reg is the target of a DDoS attack which disrupted the company's services only days into 2017.
University of Alberta
January 5, 2017
•[ hack, malware, education ]
The University of Alberta discloses the details of a malware attack, occurring late last year, that involved 300 computers and put over 3,000 students at risk.
google
January 4, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Kuroi'SH hjacks the DNS record of google.com.br and redirects the users to a defaced page.
Northside Independent School District
January 4, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
The Northside Independent School District sends letters to about 23,000 former and current students and employees regarding a security breach that might have put their personal information at risk after several employees' email accounts have been compromised.
