Incidents  

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • March 10th, 2015
San Francisco Bistro Burger Compromised, Financial Info Exposed for Two Months

San Francisco Bistro Burger Compromised, Financial Info Exposed for Two Months

No complimentary identity protection offered to customers

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • March 10th, 2015
Famous Viner Gets All His Snip Clips Deleted by Hacker

Famous Viner Gets All His Snip Clips Deleted by Hacker

Victim contacted Vine to restore the money-making content

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • March 9th, 2015
Feminist Blog Knocked Offline on International Women’s Day

Feminist Blog Knocked Offline on International Women’s Day

DDoS attack increases visibility of the website

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • March 5th, 2015
Russian Orthodox Search Engine Knocked Offline Hours After Launch

Russian Orthodox Search Engine Knocked Offline Hours After Launch

Identity of the attackers remains unknown

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • March 4th, 2015
Hackers Breach Perspectives Website for Religious Classes

Hackers Breach Perspectives Website for Religious Classes

Advertisements for abortion pills scattered on the site

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • March 2nd, 2015
Toys “R” Us Resets Account Passwords Following Unauthorized Access

Toys “R” Us Resets Account Passwords Following Unauthorized Access

Company notifies customers, advises using unique passwords

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 26th, 2015
Lime Crime Website Hacked, Over Four Months of Transactions Compromised

Lime Crime Website Hacked, Over Four Months of Transactions Compromised

Clients purchasing with PayPal are not affected

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 26th, 2015
Lenovo.com Domain Hijacked, Possibly by Lizard Squad

Lenovo.com Domain Hijacked, Possibly by Lizard Squad

Email to company employees intercepted by the hackers

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 25th, 2015
Up to 18.8 Million Non-Anthem Customers Affected by the Data Breach

Up to 18.8 Million Non-Anthem Customers Affected by the Data Breach

Blue Cross Blue Shield clients could also be affected

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 25th, 2015
200 Hackers Create Backdoor for Top Spot in Burning Man Ticket Sale

200 Hackers Create Backdoor for Top Spot in Burning Man Ticket Sale

Servers did not crash, queue intentionally paused

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 23rd, 2015
US Police Department Pays Crypto-Malware Ransom

US Police Department Pays Crypto-Malware Ransom

Backup data useless, encrypted with the rest of the files

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 18th, 2015
BigFish Games Breached, Payment Info Exposed

BigFish Games Breached, Payment Info Exposed

Crooks can use stolen data in fraudulent online transactions

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 11th, 2015
Twitter CFO Loses Control over Tweet Feed

Twitter CFO Loses Control over Tweet Feed

Lack of two-factor authentication was likely at fault

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 11th, 2015
Cyber Caliphate Hackers Take Over Twitter Account of Newsweek

Cyber Caliphate Hackers Take Over Twitter Account of Newsweek

Hackers post threats against the Obama Family

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 10th, 2015
Over 45,000 Aspire Indiana Employees and Customers Have Data Exposed

Over 45,000 Aspire Indiana Employees and Customers Have Data Exposed

Social security numbers and addresses at risk

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 6th, 2015
Scoular Co. Executive Swindled of $17.2 Million

Scoular Co. Executive Swindled of $17.2 Million

Crooks get the money in three business days

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • February 5th, 2015
Kovter Trojan Distributed via Malvertising on Huffington Post

Kovter Trojan Distributed via Malvertising on Huffington Post

Campaign still active, AOL and two other ad networks abused

 
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