Dairy Queen
August 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Fast food restaurant Dairy Queen confirms that systems in some of their locations have been infected with Backoff.
UPS
August 20, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
UPS admits that 51 of its franchised stores were hit with a malware attack that put customer credit and debit card data at risk from January 20 to August 11.
Mizado Cocina
August 19, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Yet another victim of Backoff: New Orleans restaurant Mizado Cocina says customers' credit and debit card information could have been stolen by a hacker who breached the restaurant's point of sale system between May 9 and July 18.
OmegaNet
August 10, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
OmegaNet notifies 10 businesses in New Hampshire of a malware incident that was able to capture sensitive information before it was encrypted.
Chicago Yacht Club
August 8, 2014
•[ hack, malware ]
Following an investigation into a PoS system crash, Chicago Yacht Club finds evidence of malware installation on one of their servers and notifies guests who made purchases.
Gamma Group
August 8, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Gamma International UK Ltd, the company that makes and sells the world's most elusive cyber weapon, FinFisher spyware, is hacked by a group called Phineas Fisher (@GammaGroupPR), and has a 40G file dumped on the internet.
wirelessemporium
August 5, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
After a malware is discovered on wirelessemporium.com, the company begins notifying an undisclosed number of individuals that their personal information, including payment card data, might have been compromised.
Undisclosed number of Delaware restaurants
July 31, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
An undisclosed number of Delaware restaurants may have been affected by a remote-access breach that compromised point-of-sale software, LogMeIn, according to the Delaware Restaurant Association.
Department of Agriculture
July 25, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The official website of Philippine Department of Agriculture (da.gov.ph) is infected with malicious code that promotes a gambling-related website.
Metro newspaper
July 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The United States website of the Metro newspaper (metro.us), which serves an estimated 1 million visitors every month, is compromised and abused to distribute malware.
Goodwill Industries
July 14, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Goodwill Industries is the latest victim of the PoS Breach spree. Stores on 21 states report traces of card frauds.
Penn State College of Medicine
July 10, 2014
•[ leak, malware, education ]
1176 Penn State College of Medicine alumni's Social Security numbers might have been compromised after malware was found on a university computer.
Office of Personnel Management
July 9, 2014
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The New York Times reports that in March, Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees (the Office of Personnel Management).
DailyMotion
July 3, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Symantec reveals that the popular video sharing Dailymotion was compromised to redirect users to the Sweet Orange Exploit Kit.
Cryptome
June 25, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Whistle-blowing site Cryptome is left temporarily unavailable after its service provider NetSol stops routing traffic towards the site following the discovery of a suspect and probably malicious PHP file.
askmen
June 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
askmen.com, a portal with more than 14 million readers in the US alone, is the victim of a mass-injection attack with multiple versions of the official website compromised to serve malware to its visitors.
Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment
June 20, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) is the victim of a targeted attack carried on through a specifically crafted malware distributed via a spear phishing campaign.
Synology NAS Boxes
June 13, 2014
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Dell SecureWorks reveals that unknown hackers were able to hijack Synology NAS Boxes for mining Dogecoin, reaping $620,000 in two months.
Power Equipment Direct
June 2, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Power Equipment Direct (PED) notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been accessed when the server that handles the company's checkout process was infected with malware.
University of California Irvine
May 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
More than 1,800 University of California (UC), Irvine, students are notified that they may have had personal information compromised after keylogger malware was discovered on three Student Health Center (SHC) computers for about six weeks.
