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Cross Fire
August 8, 2016
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[ hack, leak ]
In August 2016, the Russian gaming forum known as Cross Fire (or cfire.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 12.8 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
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Пара Па
August 8, 2016
In August 2016, the Russian gaming site known as (or parapa.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 4.9 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
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Quora account of Zach Klein
August 7, 2016
The official Twitter and Quora account of Zach Klein, co-founder of video-sharing website Vimeo are hacked by the OurMine collective.
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michaelphelps
August 7, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
New World Hackers claim responsibility for taking down the personal website of Michael Phelps.
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Wishbone (2016)
August 7, 2016
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[ hack, social, technology ]
In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults.
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Alexa Losey Twitter Account
August 6, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
The OurMine collective hacks the Twitter account of popular Youtuber Alexa Losey.
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Three Brazilian businessmen
August 5, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
In the second phase of their operation, Anonymous Brazil claims to have leaked personal details of Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Minister of Sport, President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and three businessmen who are allegedly involved in corruption.
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Unknown Organization
August 5, 2016
Accounts of employees from Apple, Intel, and Google are exposed after the website of the Khronos Group, a non-profit organization, is hacked.
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Unknown Organization
August 5, 2016
The online hacktivists of Anonymous Brazil take down several Brazilian government websites to protest against the ongoing Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Targets include: the official website of the federal government for the 2016 Games (brasil2016.gov.br), Portal of the State Government of Rio de Janeiro (rj.gov.br), Ministry of sports (esporte.gov.br), Brazil Olympic Committee COB (cob.org.br) and the official website of the Rio 2016 Olympics (rio2016.com).
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Unknown Organization
August 5, 2016
Anonymous leaked personal, financial and login details from domains like'the Brazilian Confederation of Modern Pentathlon (pentatlo.org.br), official Site of the Brazilian Handball Confederation (brasilhandebol.com.br),Brazilian Confederation of Boxing (cbboxe.com.br) and Brazilian Triathlon Confederation (cbtri.org.br).
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GTAOnline
August 4, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
And this time the PoodleCorp collective claims to have taken down the GTA (Grand Theft Auto) website.
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Islamic State forum on the dark web
August 4, 2016
Intsights, an Israeli cyber-intelligence firm, claims to have uncovered plans for future ISIS attacks after hacking into an ISIS forum the group had used in the past to plan other attacks.
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PlayStation Network
August 4, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The PoodleCorp collective claims to have taken down the PlayStation Network servers.
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Department of Justice of the Philippines
August 4, 2016
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
F-Secure reveals the details of NanHaiShu, a spy campaign aimed at accessing information from high-profile targets involved in the South China Sea dispute. One of the main victims is the Philippine Department of Justice.
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An Garda (Irish Police)
August 4, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Police in Ireland launch a probe after a hacker attempted to break into their computer network, forcing officials to temporarily shut down several of their systems to ensure the security of data held on staff and the public.
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Unknown Organization
August 3, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are hit by a massive DDoS attack causing latency, connection and login issues across popular games such as Overwatch, World of Warcraft and Hearthstone.
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League of Legends
August 3, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
And the PoodleCorp collective also claims to have taken down the website of League of Legends (leagueoflegends.com)
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Romelu Lukaku's Instagram Account
August 3, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Romelu Lukaku, the Everton footballer is the latest celebrity to have his Instagram account hacked.
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Bolat Atabayev
August 2, 2016
Threat actors believed to be tied to the Kazakh government have targeted lawyers and exiled Kazakh dissidents for the purpose of espionage. One of the victimis is Bolat Atabayev, a dissident theater director.
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Unknown Organization
August 2, 2016
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Pravy Sector, the Pro-Ukraine hacker (or hackers) dump 150 GB of data from the Central Ohio Urology Group.
