Tag Archives: hacked

Premera Blue Cross Breach

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Carmelo

At the end of January, this year, Premera Blue Cross discovered they were breached. Possibly 11 million records of Personal/Medical and Financial information was exposed. After working with Mandiant and the FBI, the indicators of compromise date as far back … Continue reading →

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Men who Performed the Largest Data Breaches in History: Arrested

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Carmelo

The Department of Justice reports, three men operating from Vietnam, the Netherlands, and Canada are accused of carrying out the largest data breach of names and email addresses in the history of the Internet. Two of the hackers, Viet Quoc … Continue reading →

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770,000 Records From One of Australia’s Largest Travel Insurance Companies

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Carmelo

Around the number of 770,000 records of personal information consisting of travel insurance clients, names, phone numbers, email addresses, travel dates and prices for policies was stolen around December 18th. Aussie Travel Cover notified 3rd party agents, but did not … Continue reading →

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Beware Used or Discount Devices

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Carmelo

Because of the introduction of BadUSB, some cybercriminals have been modifying hardware peripherals with some extra storage, some wireless and remote connectivity, and a lot of quality hacker ingenuity. Keyboard with a hardware keylogger built into it This type of … Continue reading →

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Is 2015 Going to be Similar to 2014 in Breaches?

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Carmelo

On January 2nd, Chick-fil-A released a statement in regards to the security breach they found out about on December 19th, 2014. One unnamed financial institution said it received an alert that contained “nearly 9,000 customer cards” for a breach that … Continue reading →

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nVidia Breached

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Carmelo

An email outlining the breach was sent to NVIDIA employees on Wednesday December 17th from the privacy office informing them that a breach had occurred and that their individual information had been compromised. It was unclear from the email how … Continue reading →

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German Steel Mill Hacked

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Carmelo

A spear phishing attack led to a German steel mill to perform an unscheduled shut down and a blast furnace could not be shut down as normal. Attackers were very skilled and used both targeted emails and social engineering techniques … Continue reading →

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Staples Follow-Up

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Carmelo

Back in October, it was announced that banks were investigating Staples based on fraudulent card activity. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail stores. Upon … Continue reading →

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ICANN Targeted in Spear Phishing Attack

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Carmelo

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers have announced that their system were compromised by a phishing attack. Some of the staff of ICANN fell victim to a spear phishing attack. From their website: ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion … Continue reading →

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Iran vs. Las Vegas Sands

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Carmelo

You may have heard that Las Vegas Sands was hacked recently, but it happened nearly a year ago on February 10th of 2014. PCs and Servers were getting shut down and their hard drives started to erase. The phone lines … Continue reading →

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