Cybersecurity Highlights

This section registers the most relevant incidents or public events related to the cybersecurity and information and communication technologies (ICT), in a way that a chronological history of them is available, together with their main links, references and information sources.

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Published data of 154 million US voters

A researcher has discovered a database with records of 154 million US voters. Published data include the names of voters, address, email, phone number and links to social networking profiles. This...

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com

threatpost.com

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Bank data of thousand of Acer clients stolen

Acer, the Taiwanese technology company, admitted that it has suffered the theft of information of customers who accessed the e-commerce page company between 12 May 2015 and 28 April 2016. The...

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oag.ca.gov

www.grahamcluley.com

es.ccm.net

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Leaked data of 8 million customers the largest Japanese travel agency

A cyber attack has caused the leak of personal information of 8 million JBT´s customers, the largest travel agency in Japan. JBT explained that data published included phone number and passport...

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japantimes.co.jp

the-japan-news.com

zdnet.com

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Stolen database of clients of the operator T-Mobile in Czech Republic

According to a statement from the operator, a disgruntled employee tried to steal the database of customers of T-Mobile in the Czech Republic. The affected DDBB seems not include personal data,...

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t-press.cz

welivesecurity.com

zpravy.idnes.cz

thehackernews.com

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Other critical infrastructures

More than 32 million Twitter accounts leaked

More than 32 million account passwords Twitter accounts have been hacked and offered for sale. Twitter says its platform has not been compromised and data loss has probably occurred through a...

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techcrunch.com

economiadigital.es

tecnologia.elpais.com

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Social networks

100 million logins to VK.com for sale

VK.com, Russian social network might have suffered a security incident as a database with at least 100 million users is for sale. Access data was stolen between 2012 and 2013 using the same...

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theregister.co.uk

securityaffairs.co

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Published DDBB with personal data of more than 5000 members of Policia Nacional

Anonymous has claimed publication of personal data of more than 5000 members of Spanish National Police. In a statement, the hacktivist group justified this action in disagreement with recent...

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mupol.es

lasexta.com

abc.es

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427 million passwords stolen from MySpace

As confirmed by MySpace, the social network has been stolen credentials 360M, the largest theft of credentials to date. Each credential contains an email address, username, password and, in some...

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motherboard.vice.com

leakedsource.com

nakedsecurity.sophos.com

myspace.com

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5000 Mossos d'Esquadra published

A SQL Injection in the virtual campus software of the Mossos d'Esquadra labor union has been used to exfiltrated personal data of more than 5000 agents of the Mossos d'Esquadra and its disclosure...

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europapress.es

europapress.es

lavanguardia.com

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Social networks

Data stolen from ADP

Automatic Data Processing, ADP, an American company has been stolen personal data from several of their clients. Among the data stolen, name address and social security number can be found....

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krebsonsecurity.com/

money.cnn.com

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