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Romanian Football Federation (FRF)
June 21, 2016
An Albanian hacker named nofawkX-al defaces the website of the Romanian Football Federation (FRF), two days after the Albanian football team defeated the Romanian football team at the 2016 European Football Championship.
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Oi
June 20, 2016
An Algerian hacker called Red hell Sofyan defaces the official website of Oi telecom along with several of its subdomains.
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Unknown Organization
June 20, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net experiences an outage, leaving players unable to log in to popular games such as Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft due to an alleged DDoS attack. Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for the latest atttack.
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Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ)
June 19, 2016
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[ espionage, misconfiguration, government ]
The Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) fixes a security issue in their video conferencing software that allowed an unknown hacker to spy on their meetings and even access the video camera.
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HLTV
June 19, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
In June 2016, the "home of competitive Counter Strike" website HLTV was hacked and 611k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of names, usernames, email addresses and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
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GoToMyPC
June 18, 2016
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[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
GoToMyPC the remote access software service is hit by hackers conducting a "very sophisticated password attack". The company initiates password resets for all users.
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Besa Hitman-for-Hire Service
June 17, 2016
Once again, bRpsd hacks the Dark Web portal of the Albanian mafia group called Besa, and dumps the data online and exposing their hitman-for-hire service.
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Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website
June 17, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
The Union of Hacktivists defaces the Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website.
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Roberto Gil Zuarth
June 15, 2016
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
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 Roberto Gil Zuarth, who was President of the Mexican Senate at the time of the targeting. He is also a member of the opposition National Action Party (PAN).
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Fidelity National Information Services (FIS Global)
June 15, 2016
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[ hack, finance ]
1x0123, the same hacker who previously claimed to have hacked PornHub, claims to have hacked the client portal of Fidelity National Information Services.
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Ricardo Anaya Corts
June 15, 2016
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
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 Ricardo Anaya Cort s, the president of the opposition National Action Party (PAN).
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Acer
June 15, 2016
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[ hack, manufacturing ]
Acer informs the California attorney general that its online store was attacked by hackers. An unauthorized outside party has taken a year's worth of full credit card data, names and addresses between mid-May 2015 and late-April this year.
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JTB
June 15, 2016
Japan's major travel agency JTB admits to have suffered a cyberattack which it fears has led to the theft of data belonging to 7.93 million users.
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Multi-Color Corporation
June 15, 2016
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[ insider, manufacturing ]
Multi-Color, a label solutions firm, reports that a break-in at a third party affiliate resulted in the compromise of Multi-Color employee personally identifiable information.
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Democratic National Committee
June 14, 2016
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[ espionage, government ]
Russian government hackers penetrate the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gain access to the entire database, dumping a 231-page document purporting to be opposition research into Donald Trump.
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GitHub
June 14, 2016
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[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Someone using what appears to have been a list of e-mail addresses and passwords obtained from the breach of "other online services" makes a massive number of login attempts to GitHub's repository service.
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Unnamed Chinese gambling site
June 14, 2016
Incapsula reveals the details of a 470 Gbps DDoS attack on an unnamed gambling website.
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US government
June 14, 2016
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
Palo Alto Networks reveals the details of a cyberespionage group called Sofacy, which has launched a fresh attack against the US government, using a "new persistence mechanism" designed to help evade detection.
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Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
June 14, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous Africa takes down the websites of EFF and ZANU-PF, two black nationalist political parties in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD)
June 14, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD) posts a notice for a suspected security breach related to the on-line purchase of licenses and tags from the Department.
