Recent Breaches
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June 24, 2014 • Montana officials notify 1.3 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by hackers who broke into a state health department computer server.
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June 23, 2014 • askmen.com, a portal with more than 14 million readers in the US alone, is the victim of a mass-injection attack with multiple versions of the official website compromised to serve malware to its visitors.
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June 23, 2014 One of the largest and most sophisticated DDoS attacks (300 Gbps peak) hits popvote.hk, an online democracy poll canvassing opinion on future Hong Kong elections.
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June 23, 2014 • In June 2014, the search engine optimisation forum Black Hat World had three quarters of a million accounts breached from their system. The breach included various personally identifiable attributes which were publicly released in a MySQL database script.
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June 22, 2014 • British Gas' support team Twitter account (@BritishGasHelp) is hacked and starts posting very strange tweets.
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June 22, 2014 • Hackers going with the handle of Pakistan Haxors Crew deface the official website of state owned PTV Sports (sports.ptv.com.pk) to protest against killings and police brutality.
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June 22, 2014 • The Syrian Electronic Army is back and hacks Reuters redirecting the users to a web page supporting the Syrian regime. However the hack was possible after allegedly compromising Taboola, the ad provider.
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June 21, 2014 • After hacking the Arizona Department of Homeland Security, the Turkish hacker Swan is back, and this time he defaces two official websites of Arizona State Governor Janice K. Brewer.
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June 21, 2014 • The official website of Pakistan Electric Power Company Limited (pepco.gov.pk) is defaced by a group of Pakistani hackers called Pakistan Haxors Crew in protest against police brutality.
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June 21, 2014 • In June 2014, the torrent site Sumo Torrent was hacked and 285k member records were exposed. The data included IP addresses, email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes.
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June 20, 2014 • About 8,500 notification letters are sent out to individuals employed by, or who submitted an application to, The Metropolitan Companies, Inc., alerting them that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to their personal information.
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June 20, 2014 • The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) is the victim of a targeted attack carried on through a specifically crafted malware distributed via a spear phishing campaign.
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June 18, 2014 • Code Spaces, a code-hosting service abruptly closes after someone gains unauthorized access to its Amazon Web Service account and deletes most of the customer data. The company refused to pay a ransom after being extorted via a DDoS attack.
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June 18, 2014 British Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, declares that a state-sponsored hostile group was able to gain access to a system administrator account on the Government Secure Intranet.
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June 18, 2014 • Move, Inc. is hit by a major DDoS attack.
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June 18, 2014 • The genealogy site ancestry.com has been blasted off the internet after reportedly being hit by a DDoS attack.
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June 17, 2014 • As part of #OpWorldCup and #OpHackingCup, Anonymous hacks a number of Brazilian organizations during the World Cup.
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June 16, 2014 Evernote's forum site, which hosts 164,644 members, is hacked, and the company sends an email to affected members recommending they change their passwords if those credentials were reused on other sites. Compromised data includes profile data, password hashes, email addresses and birth dates.
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June 16, 2014 • AT&T confirms that outside attackers (allegedly employees of one of AT&T's service providers) compromised the personal information of an undisclosed number of AT&T Mobility members.
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June 15, 2014 • An unknown hacker illegitimately accesses the systems of INVALSI, the public Italian System for School Assessment. This happens few days before the official start of the assessments affecting 600,000 students.