Hackers Wreck Iron Plant Machinery, Spear ICANN Systems and Channel M.C. Hammer
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Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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Cyberattack Physically Damages Iron Plant in Germany
A German government agency says a computer intrusion destroyed parts of control systems at a steelworks facility.
UC Berkeley Waits Three Months to Inform Hack Victims
Social Security numbers, credit card data and other personal information of employees that was stored on certain University of California, Berkeley servers may have been compromised.
Hacktivists Strike Swedish Government after Pirate Bay Crackdown
To avenge the confiscation of servers running filesharing site Pirate Bay, hackers aligned with the Anonymous movement breached Swedish government email accounts.
Hackers Entered Multiple ICANN Databases
Parts of the Internet’s address system were successfully opened by spearphishers, who spoofed Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers staff email addresses to send other ICANN employees credential-stealing messages.
Ontario Government Website Tells Visitors: ‘U Can’t Touch This’
A third party company that provides domain routing services for the province was hacked on Friday, resulting in Ontario.ca users landing on a rogue page.
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