Wingstop
January 20, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Restaurant chain Wingstop notifies an undisclosed number of customers that malware was found on point-of-sale (POS) systems at four locations, and it could have enabled attackers to capture customer payment card information.
ValuePetSupplies
January 16, 2015
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
ValuePetSupplies.com notifies several thousand customers that unauthorized persons accessed its servers and installed malicious files to capture personal information, including payment card data.
Carmen Aristegui
January 12, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Carmen Aristegui, the director of Aristegui Noticias which reported on the "Casa Blanca scandal" which implicated the Mexican President's wife.
Backcountry Gear
October 29, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
For the second time in three months, Backcountry Gear is notifying online customers that malware may have compromised their payment card information.
Popular Science
October 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Websense detects that the official website of Popular Science (popsci.com) is compromised, serving malicious code.
Breyer Horses
October 24, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
An undisclosed number of people who made purchases on the Breyer Horses website are being notified that their personal information may have been compromised by malware that was installed on the computer server hosting the website.
People Power
October 13, 2014
•[ hack, malware ]
Researchers at Washington-based Volexity, observe that the websites of the Alliance for True Democracy (ATD), the Democratic Party Hong Kong (DPHK), People Power, and the Professional Commons have been compromised and serve malicious code to their visitors.
Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali
October 13, 2014
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The UK Police National Cyber Crime Unit is asked to investigate claims that computers and mobile phones used by exiled Bahraini pro-democracy activists living in the UK are under illegal surveillance. The three named victims are Dr. Saeed Shehabi, Jaafar al-Hasabi and Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali.
Kmart
October 10, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Kmart reveals that an undisclosed number of credit card numbers were stolen in a month-long data breach which began in early September.
Hewlett Packard
October 10, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Hewlett-Packard alerts some customers that it will be revoking a digital certificate used to sign a huge swath of software, including hardware drivers and other software, since it had been used to digitally sign malware that had infected a developer's PC.
North Dakota State College of Science
October 9, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS) notifies more than 15,000 current and former students and employees that malware was discovered on numerous computers that contained their personal information, including Social Security numbers.
ABC News 24
October 7, 2014
•[ ransomware, malware ]
The ABC News 24 programming is suspended for about half an hour, from 9:30am to 10:00am, by a ransomware attack (Cryptolocker).
Flinn Scientific
October 2, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
An undisclosed number of customers who made purchases on the Flinn Scientific website are notified that their personal information, including payment card data, may have been compromised in a malware attack on the company's server that hosts its internet store.
Supervalu
October 2, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
The Supervalu supermarket chain recently announced that a new malware was discovered in late August or early September 2014 in the part of its network that processes payment card transactions for some of its Shop 'n Save, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy and Cub Foods stores.
Multiple Sclerosis Society
October 1, 2014
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Multiple Sclerosis Society warns website users their personal details might have been compromised via a malicious software discovered on its systems.
Japan Airlines
September 30, 2014
•[ leak, malware, transportation ]
Japan Airlines, or JAL, says personal information of up to 750,000 customers of its miles program has been leaked due to a cyber attack, without confirming if banking details had also been affected.
jQuery
September 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
RiskIQ detects a credential-stealing malware being loaded onto users computers through a drive-by download at jQuery.com. The attack was carried out using RIG exploit kit to target visitors.
Unnamed oil and gas company
September 17, 2014
•[ hack, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Bromium are alerted of a watering-hole attack originating from the website of a high-profile technology startup in the oil and gas sector.
Politica Estadao
September 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware ]
Sucuri reveals that a popular Brazilian newspaper, Politica Estadao, is hacked by attackers with a code able to attack readers' home routers.
Jimmy John's
September 14, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Signature Systems Inc., the point-of-sale vendor blamed for a credit and debit card breach involving 216 Jimmy John's sandwich shop locations, says the breach also may have jeopardized customer card numbers at nearly 100 other independent restaurants.
