Bloomfield Hills High School
May 19, 2018
•[ hack, insider, education ]
Two students from Bloomfield Hills High School are the main suspects of a recent hack discovered at the school. The two broke into the school's MISTAR Student Information System portal where they changed grades, attendance records, and attempted to refund lunch purchases.
Inogen
April 13, 2018
•[ insider, manufacturing ]
Inogen, a California-based medical device manufacturer, reports that 30,000 former and current customers may have had their personal information exposed when a company employee's email account was compromised sometime between Jan. 2, 2018, and Mar. 14, 2018.
Svitzer
March 15, 2018
•[ insider, misconfiguration ]
The shipping company Svitzer suffers a significant data breach affecting almost half its Australian employees when three employees have had emails auto-forwarded in the past 11 months.
Jeffree Star
December 10, 2017
•[ hack, leak, insider ]
Jeffree Star is the victim of a data hack, after a member of staff at cosmetics store Sephora allegedly hacks into her account and leaks sensitive information about his spending habits.
Tenafly High School
December 1, 2017
•[ insider, misconfiguration, education ]
Tenafly High School informs parents that a student has gained access to its internal IT systems, changed grades to improve his GPA, and sent out college applications immediately after.
Gordon Ramsay
June 7, 2017
•[ financial, hack, insider ]
The father-in-law of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is jailed for six months after pleading guilty to attempting to hack into his computer to steal financial information and 'dirty' secrets on the star for the hacking plot to crack into Ramsay's private email.
Bell (2017 breach)
May 15, 2017
•[ leak, insider, telecommunications ]
In May 2017, the Bell telecommunications company in Canada suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of millions of customer records. The data was consequently leaked online with a message from the attacker stating that they were "releasing a significant portion of Bell.ca's data due to the fact that they have failed to cooperate with us" and included a threat to leak more. The impacted data included over 2 million unique email addresses and 153k survey results dating back to 2011 and 2012. There were also 162 Bell employee records with more comprehensive personal data including names, phone numbers and plain text "passcodes". Bell suffered another breach in 2014 which exposed 40k records.
KCG Holdings
April 23, 2017
•[ insider, espionage, malware ]
The FBI arrests Zhengquan Zhang, a 31-year-old IT engineer, accused of installing malware on his employer's servers to steal proprietary source.
Sage Software
August 17, 2016
•[ insider, misconfiguration, technology ]
A data breach at Sage Software may have compromised personal information for employees at 280 UK businesses. The breach was caused by "unauthorised access" by someone using an "internal" company computer login. The alleged author of the attack, a 32 year-old Sage employee was arrested at Heathrow airport.
Multi-Color Corporation
June 15, 2016
•[ insider, manufacturing ]
Multi-Color, a label solutions firm, reports that a break-in at a third party affiliate resulted in the compromise of Multi-Color employee personally identifiable information.
Union League Club
May 3, 2016
•[ financial, insider, malware ]
Union League Club says it is working with the FBI to investigate a security breach involving guests' credit card information. An employee accused to have installed malicious software is fired.
Penrith High School
September 11, 2015
•[ insider, misconfiguration, education ]
A small group of students from Penrith High School have allegedly used a teacher's login credentials to access a Department of Education computer system that contains students' assessment marks.
Bodmin College
August 4, 2015
•[ hack, insider, education ]
A disgruntled former student is thought to be responsible for hacking Bodmin College's website and defacing it with a series of obscenities.
Multi State Lottery Association
April 14, 2015
•[ insider, hack, financial ]
Eddie Raymond Tipton, the former security boss of the Multi State Lottery Association, is charged with fraud after allegedly hacking with a rootkit the computer that picks the winning numbers.
AECOM
July 16, 2014
•[ insider ]
AECOM notifies its employees of an intrusion resulting in the exposure of personal information of past and present employees.
PharmaNet
July 11, 2014
•[ insider, healthcare ]
1,600 names, dates of birth, phone numbers, addresses, and personal health numbers are accessed by an unauthorized individual using a doctor's PharmaNet account.
