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New York City Government
February 25, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Almost all government agencies in New York City are unable to send or receive messages for nearly a week as a consequence of a DDoS attack. A further investigation reveals that the attack may have originated from Russia.
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dexsil
February 21, 2015
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[ hack, sqlinjection, healthcare ]
LNO uNiTy AKA @LNOuNiTy hacks dexsil.com and dumps about 6,000 usernames and passwords.
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BigFish Games
February 18, 2015
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[ financial, hack, technology ]
Casual gaming company Big Fish Games has its site and the personal and financial information of some of its users compromised in an attack that started on last Christmas Eve.
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Nigerian National Assembly
February 17, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
GrenXPaRTa hacks the Nigerian Nation Assembly (nassnig.org) and dumps 49 MB of data.
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Jamie Oliver
February 17, 2015
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[ hack, malware ]
A spokesman for Jamie Oliver confirms that the celebrity's website (jamieoliver.com), has been affected by a "malware problem": a malicious iFrame redirecting to a site serving the Fiesta exploit kit.
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Haskell
February 16, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Haskell, an advanced purely functional programming language, confirms a security breach in its Debian Builds component (deb.haskell.org).
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Anthony Noto Twitter account
February 12, 2015
Twitter's Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto (@anthonynoto) account is hijacked in order to send out spammy links.
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Dutch government websites
February 11, 2015
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[ ddos, government ]
All Dutch government websites suddenly go down on Tuesday morning, only coming back up more than twelve hours later. The day after, the Dutch Ministry of General Affairs, issues a brief statement saying indicating the outage as a consequence of a DDoS attack.
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Martin Schulz website
February 9, 2015
The official website of Martin Schulz (martin-schulz.info), the president of the European Parliament, is hacked by unknown individuals, who leak the content of several internal databases and post online the proof of the hack.
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Jefferson National Parks Association
February 6, 2015
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[ leak, retail ]
The Jefferson National Parks Association admits to have been informed of a data breach (occurred two months earlier) involving two shops.
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Arizona Army National Guard
February 6, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Hackers from 3xp1r3 Cyber Army deface the sub-domain of the official Arizona Department of Emergency & Military Affairs (ems.azdema.gov). The targeted sub-domain belongs to AZARNG (Arizona Army National Guard).
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Anthem
February 5, 2015
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[ hack, finance ]
One of the largest US health insurers, Anthem, says it suffered a breach that exposed Social Security Numbers and other personal information for 80 million people, including its CEO. It is believed that Chinese hackers may be responsible for the hack.
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photostock.am
February 2, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
A hacker called xaxaxax hacks photostock.am and dumps 1,939 records with personal details.
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Women's Resource Center
January 30, 2015
The website of the Woman Resource Centre (wrc.org.uk) is defaced by Team System DZ, a group of supporters of ISIS and Jihad.
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Lizard Squad
January 29, 2015
Anonymous Protection AKA @AnonymousUK2015 takes credit for taking down the website (lizardpatrol.com) and the Twitter account (@LizardMafia) of the infamous LizardSquad Collective.
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Christine & the Queens
January 29, 2015
The Twitter account of the French band Christine & The Queens is hacked by a spammer promoting weight losing drugs to their 20,000 followers.
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Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique
January 29, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
A hacker called Moroccan Hassan defaces several subdomains of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS.fr).
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Army and Navy Academy
February 18, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
In name of OpChapelHill, the online hacktivist AnonGhost deface the official website of a Carlsbad, California based private military school (armyandnavyacademy.org).
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kiwiblitz
February 17, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
@GroundingPlanes and @Guidelines hack kiwiblitz.com and dump about 9,000 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Standard Chartered Bank
February 14, 2015
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[ hack, financial, finance ]
The Pakistani branch of Standard Chartered Bank is hacked, and as a consequence many customers fall victim to illegitimate withdrawals from their bank accounts.
