TaskRabbit
April 16, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
TaskRabbit, a web-based service owned by IKEA that connects freelance handymen with clients in various local US markets, emails customers admitting it suffered a security breach. The company takes down its app and website while investigating the incident.
Sucuri
April 12, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The California based website security provider Sucuri suffers a series of massive DDoS attacks causing service outage in West Europe, South America and parts of Eastern United States.
Sodexo Filmology
April 9, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Sodexo food services and facilities management company notifies a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform Sodexo Filmology.
[24]7.ai
April 5, 2018
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
[24]7.ai, a firm providing online customer support services based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, is breached. As consequence other companies using its services suffer a theft of customer payment information. The breach occurred between September 26, 2017 and Octover 12, 2017.
Online casino in Central America
April 3, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Researchers from ESET reveal that the infamous Lazarus Group, a malicious actor linked to North Korea, has used a new toolset, including the destructive KillDisk, to target the network of an online Casino in Central America.
Naukri
March 27, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Nigerian hackers hack into Naukri.com's servers, stealing 100,000 resumes and contacting 10,000 job seekers for fake interviews.
Orbitz
March 20, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Orbitz, a subsidiary of online travel agency Expedia Inc reveals that hackers may have accessed personal information from about 880,000 payment cards. The breach may have occurred between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 22, 2017 for its partner platform and between Jan. 1, 2016 and June 22, 2016 for its consumer platform.
Fortnite
March 14, 2018
•[ hack, financial, technology ]
Several news reports surface of the suspected hacking of player accounts of popular video game Fortnite, with some gamers apparently faced with large credit card charges from fraudulent purchases.
Unidentified US Service Provider
March 5, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Few days after GitHub suffered a massive 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack, Arbor Networks unveil the details of a new record DDoS attack that clocked at 1.7 Tbps. The attack was aimed at a yet-to-be-identified "US service provider."
NIS America
March 1, 2018
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Japanese gaming developer Nippon Ichi Software reveals that its American arm, NIS America, has suffered a major data breach compromising the personal and financial data of online customers. The breach, due to malware implanted in the checkout page, took place sometime between January 23 and February 26.
GitHub
February 28, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
GitHub suvives the largest DDoS attack recorded (so far), reching a stunning 1.35 terabits/sec. leveraging memcached servers.
EyeEm
February 28, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
In February 2018, photography website EyeEm suffered a data breach. The breach was identified among a collection of other large incidents and exposed almost 20M unique email addresses, names, usernames, bios and password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who asked for it to be attributed to "Kuroi'sh or Gabriel Kimiaie-Asadi Bildstein".
Matteo Salvini Facebook Page
February 24, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
And after the personal blog, hacktivists from Anonymous also deface Matteo Salvini's blog page.
Mobistealth
February 22, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker breaks into two consumer spyware companies, Mobistealth and Spy Master Pro and dumps a large cache of data.
HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website
February 20, 2018
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
The HardwareZone (HWZ) Forum website is hacked and approximately 685,000 user profiles are affected. A senior moderator's account has been compromised by an unidentified hacker, and used to access the user profiles since September 2017.
2,844 Separate Data Breaches
February 19, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2018, a massive collection of almost 3,000 alleged data breaches was found online. Whilst some of the data had previously been seen in Have I Been Pwned, 2,844 of the files consisting of more than 80 million unique email addresses had not previously been seen. Each file contained both an email address and plain text password and were consequently loaded as a single "unverified" data breach.
Roomsurf
February 16, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Roomsurf notifies its users of a data breach in which the attacker has been able to obtain usernames, phone numbers, and email addresses.
Atos
February 14, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Reports emerge that the Olympic Destroyer malware might be used months before to target Atos, the IT provider of Winter Olympics.
Advertisement screen in London
February 13, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
And the last victim of the cryptocurrency frenzy is an advertisement screen in London that is infected by a miner.
Business Wire
February 7, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Press release network Business Wire admits suffering an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack lasting a week.
