Breaches, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities in October 2014

This might be the longest one I’ve done so far: List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October http://t.co/AtYQ3vBJEa

— Lewis Morgan (@LewisMorgan_) October 28, 2014

Payment information breach

1. Dairy Queen Data breach hits 395 stores
2. ‘Big K’ raided by hackers: Kmart warns customers after malware discovered
3. Staples stores investigated: suspected payment card breach
4. Irish Water investigates data breach involving customers’ bank details
5. Malware on Breyer Horses website for about 18 months, payment card data at risk
6. Sourcebooks payment card breach impacts more than 5,000 customers
7. Fraud reports from a ‘few dozen’ customers in Sheplers payment card breach
8. HMRC phishing scam exposed!
9. Cyberswim notifies customers that payment card data may be at risk
10. Huge Data Leak at Largest U.S. Bond Insurer
11. Flinn Scientific notifies customers of payment card breach
12. Fidelity National Financial employees targeted in phishing attack
13. More than a dozen bank accounts hacked at Willard Parking Garage

Data breach

1. JP Morgan suffers data breach affecting 76 million customers
2. AT&T Inform Customers of Data Breach
3. 850,000 individuals compromised in Oregon Employment Department data breach
4. Transcript website flaw exposed personal data on 98k users
5. Marquette University notifies graduate applicants of possible breach
6. Physician’s email account, accessed by unknown source, contained patient data
7. Malware on NDSCS computers that stored data on 15K students and staffers
8. Valeritas notifies all employees of possible data breach
9. Touchstone Medical Imaging patient data accessible online
10. Unencrypted laptop stolen from Community Technology Alliance
11. Taylor Swift: ‘1989’ Leak Traced Back to Target and France

Cyber attack

1. ClickStartMe & CrowdItForward Hacked
2. Ukraine Blames Report of Crippled Electronic Election System on Hackers
3. Websites of 66 municipal bodies in State hacked
4. Hackers breach the Warsaw Stock Exchange
5. Goa governor’s website hacked
6. North Carolina Republican Senate Candidate’s Website Hacked
7. Ello Users Experience Further Downtime After DDoS Attack

Discovered vulnerabilities

1. POODLE attack digs up downgrade flaw in TLS
2. Koler ransomware locks US Android cell phones
3. Flash Player users may be vulnerable to new attacks
4. Microsoft warns all Windows users of new zero-day attack
5. Utility meters at risk of cyber attack
6. Tyupkin ATM Malware: Banks Give Away Cash
7. Phone evidence remotely wiped in police stations