Valley View Hospital
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, financial, malware ]
Social Security numbers and payment card data is among the personal information that may have been compromised for about 5,400 patients of Colorado-based Valley View Hospital after a computer virus was identified on some hospital computers.
Citroen
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Citroen joins the list of the victims of the ColdFusion Vulnerability. The Guardian reveals that one of the carmaker's German websites was hacked to include a backdoor.
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
February 1, 2014
•[ espionage, malware ]
Jean-Jacques Quisquater, a Belgian cryptographer, is an apparent victim of the NSA's Regin malware.
Bitstamp
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Reuters reports that the virtual currency Bitcoin is being hit by attacks from unknown hackers sending "mutated" lines of code into the program that runs the virtual currency. Two exchanges, Bitstamp and Mt. Gox, are affected.
Israeli Defense Ministry
January 26, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Earlier in January, unknown hackers break into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software looking like it had been sent by the country's Shin Bet secret security service.
Neiman Marcus
January 11, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus admits to have suffered a data breach exposing customers' credit card information.
openSUSE
January 7, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The well-known Pakistani hacker H4x0r HuSsY hacks the official Forum of OpenSUSE, defacing it and allegedly compromising the account information of 79,500 registered users.
Edgepark Medical Supplies
January 16, 2014
•[ financial, malware, manufacturing ]
The information, including payment card data, of more than 4,200 individuals is inappropriately accessed after malware is introduced into the computer systems of Edgepark Medical Supplies.
World of Warcraft
January 6, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
World of Warcraft players are hit with a malicious trojan that hijacks accounts. The malware infects systems by posing as an installer of Curse, a legitimate add-on.
