Reliance Jio
July 9, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
Personal details of some 120 million Reliance Jio customers are exposed on the Internet in probably the biggest breach of personal data ever in India.
gandi
July 7, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
French domain registrar Gandi loses control over 751 customer domains, which have their DNS records altered to point incoming traffic to websites hosting exploits kits.
Google
July 3, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
In the wake of the breach that occurred at Sabre Hospitality Solutions earlier in May, the personal details of a small number of Google staffers have been exposed, according to a notification letter Google sends out to affected employees.
Equifax
July 29, 2017
•[ financial, technology ]
Equifax, reveals to have been hit by a data breach that could potentially affect 143 million consumers in the United States. The breach was discovered on July 29th.
KQED
July 18, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
KQED, a San Francisco radio station is still recovering from a ransomware attack, nearly one month after.
Deep Hosting
July 8, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Deep Hosting, a Dark Web hosting service, admits to have suffered a major security incident during which "some sites have been exported".
8tracks
June 27, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
Motherboard reveals that millions of accounts for internet radio service 8tracks are being traded on the digital underground. The total number of affected accounts could be as high as 18 million.
Microsoft
June 23, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows 10 operating system builds and portions of its core source code (a total of 32TB) are leaked online.
Nayana
June 19, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
A South Korean Web-hosting service provider, Nayana, agrees to pay $1 million to a ransomware operation that encrypted data stored on 153 Linux servers and 3,400 customer websites via the Erebus ransomware.
Good Choice (hotel reservation app)
June 1, 2017
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Hackers suspected of breaching a popular South Korean mobile app and stealing the personal data of more than 990,000 are arrested by local police in Korea.
Skype
June 21, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A hacking group called CyberTeam claims responsibility for a DDoS attack against Skype.
CD Projekt Red
June 8, 2017
•[ ransomware, technology ]
CD Projekt Red, the Polish studio maker behind the popular The Witcher 3 RPG, suffers a data breach and the attacker is holding the company for ransom, threatening to release stolen files if the game maker doesn't pay an undisclosed sum of money.
OneLogin
May 31, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
OneLogin reveals the details about an attack on its systems, confirming that a "threat actor" has accessed database tables including "information about users, apps, and various types of keys." The attacker was been able to rifle through OneLogin's infrastructure for seven hours.
Panic
May 18, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Apple app maker Panic's CEO Steven Frank says he mistakenly downloaded the malware-laced DVD-ripping app HandBrake resulting in some of the company's source code being stolen.
DaFont
May 18, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
The popular font sharing site DaFont.com is hacked, exposing the site's entire database of 699,464 user accounts.
Gannett Co.
May 2, 2017
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
A phishing email attack potentially compromises the accounts of as many as 18,000 current and former employees of media company Gannett Co.
Ciphr
April 26, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
Customer data from encrypted phone company Ciphr is dumped online.
Al Jazeera Media Network
June 8, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The websites and digital platforms of Al Jazeera Media Network are undergoing "systematic and continual hacking attempts". Internal sources reveal that the network is facing a DDoS attack.
German O2-Telefonica users
May 3, 2017
•[ financial, ss7, technology ]
O2-Telefonica in Germany confirms to S ddeutsche Zeitung that some of its customers have had their bank accounts drained using a two-stage attack that exploits SS7.
Bell Canada
May 16, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Bell Canada says that 1.9 million customer account details have been stolen by unknown hackers, although no payment card numbers or passwords have been taken.
