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T-Mobile Hacked — 2 Million Customers' Personal Data Stolen

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T-Mobile today confirmed that the telecom giant suffered a security breach on its US servers on August 20 that may have resulted in the leak of "some" personal information of up to 2 million T-Mobile customers.

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Aug 24, 2018

Hacker holds the data of 20,000 Superdrug customers to ransom

Superdrug has warned customers of a security incident which may have resulted in the exposure of personal data.

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Aug 22, 2018

Augusta Health Center Reveals Historic Breach

A leading US healthcare organization (HCO) has admitted that a phishing attack last September may have led to the compromise of highly sensitive data on nearly half a million patients.

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Aug 21, 2018

UK hacking prosecutions plummet with only 47 charges recorded last year

Cyberattacks are now a daily occurrence and hardly a week goes by when we don't hear of a major data breach -- but despite rising numbers of hacking events, prosecutions rates are falling in the United Kingdom.

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Aug 20, 2018

Australian Teen Hacked Apple Network

An Australian teenager hacked into Apple's enterprise computer network, making off with 90 gigabytes of data before being discovered. He also accessed an undisclosed number of customer accounts during his year-long intrusion.

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Aug 19, 2018

Indian Bank Loses $13.5m in Global Attack

An Indian bank has lost nearly 944m rupees ($13.5m) after hackers withdrew the funds from ATMs around the world and made other fraudulent SWIFT transfers.

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Aug 16, 2018

Hackers Target Instagram, Users Blame Russia

The Facebook-owned photo-sharing application Instagram has reportedly fallen victim to an attack, which appears to have originated in Russia, according to news from The Sun. Both Mashable and Reddit have reported a surge in the use of the word "hack" in tweets related to Instagram story maker.

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Aug 15, 2018

Election Websites, Backend Systems Most at Risk of Cyberattack in Midterms

Two 11-year-old budding hackers last week at DEF CON in Las Vegas used SQL injection attack code to break into a replica of the Florida Secretary of State's website within 15 minutes, altering vote count reports on the site.

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Aug 15, 2018

PGA of America Struck By Ransomware

While golfing fans have been all about this week's PGA Championship, extortion-minded hackers were more focused on the PGA of America's computer servers.

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Aug 12, 2018

SingHealth Attack Potentially State-Linked

Last month’s cyber-attack on SingHealth, which resulted in the breach of 1.5 million health records, might have been the work of an advanced persistent threat group, according to information disclosed by S. Iswaran, Singapore’s minister for communications and information in Parliament today.

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Aug 07, 2018

Amnesty International spearphished with government spyware

Amnesty International has been spearphished by a WhatsApp message bearing links to what the organization believes to be malicious, powerful spyware: specifically, Pegasus, which has been called History’s Most Sophisticated Tracker Program.

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Aug 05, 2018

Reddit Breached After SMS 2FA Fail

Reddit has become the latest big-name tech firm to admit to a major data breach, after hackers compromised staff accounts by intercepting SMS-based two-factor authentication codes.

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Aug 02, 2018

Yale University discloses old school data breach

Yale University has disclosed a security breach which occurred a decade ago.

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Aug 01, 2018

Clarksons says single user account to blame for data breach

Clarkson PLC has revealed that a single user account was at the crux of a data breach resulting in the theft of confidential information.

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Jul 31, 2018

Idaho Inmates Hack Tablets for Extra Credits

Hundreds of tech-savvy inmates at several Idaho correctional facilities have been caught exploiting a software vulnerability on their state-funded tablets to artificially increase account balances.

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Jul 30, 2018

Russian Hacking Campaign Targeted US Utilities

By penetrating the networks of downline vendors, Russian hackers gained access to a reportedly secure, isolated network, allowing them to eventually reach the control rooms of US utilities, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Jul 29, 2018

ICO hacked: Hackers steal $8 million from KICKICO Blockchain network

Another day, another ICO hacked. This time, KICKICO, an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) project that lets users conduct ICOs, pre-ICOs, crowdfunding and crowdinvesting campaigns have suffered a security breach and as a result, hackers have stolen more than 70 million KickCoins which is around $7.7 million.

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Jul 28, 2018

Virginian Bank Robbed Twice in Eight Months

The perils of phishing emails and cyber-insurance were laid bare this week after news emerged of an American bank that fell victim to hackers twice within eight months and is suing its provider for failing to cover the losses.

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Jul 26, 2018

DHS Officials: Hundreds of US Utility Victims Infiltrated by Russian Hackers

The US Department of Homeland Security, which earlier this year warned of Russian nation-state hacking teams targeting energy and other critical infrastructure organizations, in a briefing this week provided more details on the attack campaign.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 25, 2018

Campaign's Election Data Exposed in Virginia

A Virginia-based political campaign and robocalling company Robocent left hundreds of thousands of voter records on a public, exposed and unprotected Amazon S3 bucket. This year has already seen a lineup of attempted attacks on local elections and campaigns, but this news comes less than a week after the indictment of 12 Russian officials for meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 23, 2018

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