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Tenacious D Twitter Account (@RealTenaciousD)
June 5, 2016
Tenacious D, Jack Black's music group, have their Twitter Account hacked and post the fake news of Jack Black's death.
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Sh0ping[.]su
June 5, 2016
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[ hack, retail ]
Sh0ping[.]su, a platform known for selling stolen accounts on the dark market is hacked. The attackers leak 16,000 stolen accounts, 15,000 accounts taken from other sites, and 9,000 credit cards.
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Keith Richards' Twitter Account (@officialKeef)
June 5, 2016
Keith Richards has his Twitter account hacked.
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Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
June 1, 2016
The website of Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party is under attack from cyber spies seeking to profile visitors to the site, as part of a campaign to get information about the party's policies following its election victory in January.
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Spanish Police Department
May 31, 2016
@FkPoliceAnonOps hacks the Spanish Police Department and leaks personal details of 5,000 Spanish police officers online.
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National Oil Corporation of Kenya
May 30, 2016
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[ hack, energy ]
World Hacker team hacks the National Oil Corporation of Kenya and posted a link online containing the database dump.
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Jawar Mohammed
May 30, 2016
A threat actor targeted Ethiopian dissidents for the purpose of espionage, using commercially available spyware sold by Cyberbit, an Israel-based company. Most notably, the actor targeted the Oromia Media Network and some individuals associated with it.
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Reddit
May 27, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
A surge in account hijacking and takeovers forces Reddit to reset 100,000 passwords.
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MySpace
May 27, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
A hacker hiding behind the email address Tessa88@exploit.im publishes a database containing 360 million records belonging to MySpace. The database is the alleged result of a breach that occurred in 2013.
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NS1
May 25, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Unknown attackers have been directing an ever-changing army of bots in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against NS1, a major DNS and traffic management provider.
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Statistical Centre of Iran
May 24, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
The Statistical Centre of Iran is targeted by unknown attackers. Iran tracks the origin of the attack from three Arab countries including Saudi Arabia.
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Salvador Camarena
May 24, 2016
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Salvador Camarena, a journalist working at Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity.
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Unknown Organization
May 23, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
A hacker who goes by the nickname of Amar^SHG (formerly Kuroi'SH) defaces France's most visited weather portal, M t o France.
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High Commission of India in Pretoria, South Africa
June 11, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Two Pakistani hackers dubbed "Romantic" and "Intruder" deface Indian government websites including the Embassy of India in Turkey; the Embassy of India in Greece; the Embassy of India in Mexico; the Consulate General of India in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the Embassy of India in Bucharest, Romania; the Embassy of India in Dushanbe, Tajikistan; and the High Commission of India in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Unknown government-linked Louisiana database
June 9, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
A hacker under the pseudonym NSA puts on sale on the dark web a database that purports to hold over a quarter of a million driver licence records compromised from a government-linked databases in Louisiana, United States.
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Unknown Organization
June 9, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
As part of the same operations, the Anonymous take down the Romania Stock Exchange (sibex.ro).
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UTorrent Forum
June 8, 2016
Hackers obtain 34,000 user accounts for the UTorrent forum of popular data trading software BitTorrent.
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Kylie Jenner's Twitter account (@KylieJenner)
June 6, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Kylie Jenner is the latest celebrity to have her Twitter account hacked.
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Drake's Twitter account (@Drake)
June 6, 2016
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[ hack, social, technology ]
Drake's Twitter account was taken over by an account called @2aiden3.
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TeamViewer
June 4, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Users of the remote login service TeamViewer report their computers have been ransacked by attackers who somehow gained access to their accounts.
