Encrochat
June 22, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
The encrypted chat Encrochat shuts down after a police hack.
Blaze Angel Roberts Instagram account
June 19, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
Popular Australian surfer Blaze Angel Roberts has her Instagram account hacked, posting sexually explicit images.
Pivot Technology Solutions
June 12, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Canadian managed service Pivot Technology Solutions was the victim of a ransomware attack in June. The attack did not encrypt its systems, but did lead to the loss of some data.
Preen.Me
June 8, 2020
•[ leak, technology ]
Researchers from Risk Based Security reveal that personal data of an estimated 350,000 social media influencers and users has been accessed and partially leaked following a breach at social media marketing firm Preen.Me.
RBX.Place
June 18, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers steal data from RBX.Place, a grey marketplace where players of the massively popular online game Roblox can sell in-game items for real money.
Microsoft
June 10, 2020
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Microsoft reveals that attackers recently hijacked powerful machine-learning clusters inside Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing service to mine cryptocurrency at the expense of the customers who rented them.
Unnamed web host
June 17, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
An unnamed webhost was hit with one of the largest DDoS attacks ever registered by Akamai (1.44 terabit-per-second).
MaxLinear
June 15, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
U.S. system-on-chip (SOC) maker company MaxLinear discloses that some of its computing systems were encrypted by Maze Ransomware operators. The attack was discovered on May 24.
Sapiens International
June 14, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Israeli software company Sapiens International falls victim to a ransomware attack, paying $250,000 in Bitcoin to hackers.
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.
June 12, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. reveals that it suffered a ransomware attack on April 11, 2020.
A1 Telekom
June 11, 2020
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
A1 Telekom, the largest internet service provider in Austria, admits a malware security breach from December 2019 to May 2020.
ST Engineering
June 5, 2020
•[ ransomware, leak, malware ]
The threat actors behind the Maze ransomware steal and leak the data of ST Engineering.
Digital Management Inc. (DMI)
June 3, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
The DoppelPaymer ransomware gang says it successfully breached the network of Digital Management Inc. (DMI), a managed IT and cyber-security services on demand, NASA contractor.
Excis
May 30, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Sekhmet ransomware operators claim to have hit an international IT firm, Excis.
LiveJournal
May 27, 2020
•[ leak, hack, technology ]
Blogging platform LiveJournal appears to have suffered a security breach in 2014, and multiple hackers are selling the company's user database on the dark web and on hacking forums (26 million users).
M.J. Brunner
May 17, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
M.J. Brunner is hit with a Maze ransomware attack.
Covve
May 15, 2020
•[ leak, technology ]
Covve, the popular address book app, is identified as the source of a data breach that exposed the details of nearly 23 million individuals.
ZEE5
June 5, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker(s) identifying themselves as "John Wick" and "Korean Hackers" claim to have breached the systems for Indian video on-demand giant ZEE5 and are threatening to sell the database on criminal markets.
Security Industry Specialists
June 1, 2020
•[ technology ]
Security Industry Specialists has discovered that some of its systems
Wishbone
May 20, 2020
•[ leak, technology ]
ShinyHunters puts up for sale the details of 40 million users registered on Wishbone, a popular mobile app that lets users compare two items in a simple voting poll.
