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Tesla
April 23, 2015
Tesla Motors Inc.'s Twitter feed and its media-relations e-mail account are hijacked by a group dubbed RIPPRGANG. The hackers are able to post messages to the company's more than 564,000 followers. Nearly in contemporary the homepage is redirected to an external domain by an online group called Autismsquad.
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Detour Gold Corporation
April 21, 2015
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[ hack, energy ]
A collective called Angel_Of_Truth hacks Detour Gold Corporation and dumps several data on pastebin. The attack is done in retaiation for the Canadian sanctions against Russia.
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Northwestern University
April 17, 2015
Part of Northwestern University's network has been offline for over a week as a result of a hack first disclosed on Twitter by 4/2o Cell AKA @Puttied.
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Yahoo!
April 15, 2015
Three Bangladeshi hackers going with the handles of Ne0-h4ck3r, TiGER-M@TE and F0RTYS3V3N, hijack the Google, Google Images, YouTube and Yahoo Malaysia domains.
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Rossel
April 14, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Rossel, a Belgian media group, is the victim of a DDoS attack. One of Belgium's largest French-speaking newspapers, La Soir, along with others sites are affected and temporarily shut down. A new attack is executed the day after.
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Vatican City
April 13, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
A Turkish hacker with the handle @THTHerakles shut down the Vatican City official website (vatican.va) to protest against Pope Francis' remarks in which he used the word "genocide" to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks.
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Hunan Police Academy
April 10, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
AnonymousGlobo defaces several Chinese government websites including the Hunan (a province in China) Police Academy website in solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
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Kendall Jenner
April 8, 2015
Kendall Jenner's Twitter account is hacked, and begins posting some out-of-character messages to her 10.2 million followers.
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Wellesley College
April 5, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
4/2o Cell AKA @Puttied hacks a subdomain of wellesley.edu (mobius.wellesley.edu) and claims to have obtained 700 records.
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lumensfactory
March 29, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
Histeria hacks lumensfactory.com and dumps 2,550 usernames and clear text passwords.
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British Airways
March 29, 2015
Unknown hackers access tens of thousands of British Airways frequent-flyer accounts. The airline states that only a small proportion of its millions of customers are affected, and no names, addresses, bank details or other personal information has been accessed.
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Indiana Official Website
March 28, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
After Indiana's Governor Mike Pence signed the controversial religious freedom bill law, @YourVikingdom2015 takes down the Official Indiana website in.gov.
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Xtube
March 25, 2015
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[ malware, technology ]
Another adult site used to distribute malware. This time the victim is Xtube, whose main page is compromised to redirect the user to a site hosting the Neutrino Exploit Kit.
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Oriel High School
March 25, 2015
The Oriel High School's Twitter account is hacked and posts offensive images about the alleged "new career" of a professor as a porn actor.
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St. Mary's Health
March 20, 2015
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[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
St. Mary's Health (stmarys.org) announces that several employees had their usernames and passwords compromised. Unfortunately their email accounts contained personal information on roughly 4,400 individuals.
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Greatfire
March 20, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Chinese activist site Greatfire.org, which masks censored traffic into the country, suffers a DDoS attack that racks up $30,000 a day in server costs.
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Kelly Brook
April 13, 2015
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[ leak, hack ]
Yet another trail of the infamous Fappening affair. This time it's the turn of Kelly Brook, whose nude photos are leaked by unknown hackers.
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Homebridge
April 13, 2015
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[ financial, malware, healthcare ]
Homebridge notifies an undisclosed number of current and former employees that unauthorized access was gained to human resource records via malware implanted on a limited number of computers, and that the stolen personal information may have been used to file fraudulent tax returns.
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alhayat
April 13, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
In name of #OpSaudi, the Yemen Cyber Army hacks alhayat.com and dumps 926 records including usernames and hashed passwords.
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lhbltd
April 11, 2015
The Anonymous breach into an Israeli gun shop website (lhbltd.com) and leak login credentials plus personal details of its local and international customers, including some government officers.
