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Unknown Organization
June 14, 2016
A hacker going by the handle of SkyNetCentral conducted a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the official website of the Society of the Muslim Brothers or Muslim Brotherhood. The attacker also hacks some data.
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iMesh
June 13, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
51 million user accounts for iMesh, a now defunct file sharing service, are put on sale on the dark web.
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Petra News Agency
June 12, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Jordan's official state news agency has claimed a hacker is responsible for breaching its computer system to insert false comments into a story describing how Saudi Arabia royalty funded 20% of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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South African Broadcasting Corporation
June 12, 2016
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the country's official state news broadcaster, confirms that it suffered a wave of cyberattacks orchestrated by a hacktivist aligned with the Anonymous collective.
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Unknown Organization
June 12, 2016
In what looks like an act of revenge from an ex-student or staff (still unclear) the server of Greenwich University is breached and completely leaked online.
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Karnataka State Police
June 11, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
A hacker named Faisal 1337 from Team Pak Cyber Attackers has defaced the website of the Karnataka State Police.
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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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Pro-Islamic State Twitter Accounts
June 11, 2016
Anonymous member WauchulaGhost reveals to have taken over Twitter accounts for ISIS supporters and defaced them with adult-themed images.
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DeRay Mckesson's Twitter Account (@deray)
June 10, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Black Lives Matter activist and politician DeRay Mckesson has his Twitter account hacked.
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bilderbergmeeting
June 9, 2016
In name of Project Mayhem, the phase 3 of OpIcarus, the Anonymous take down the official website of the Bilderberg Group, a controversial and highly secretive conference held with the so-called 'political elite' alongside experts from academia and finance.
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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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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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DAC Group
June 9, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
DAC Group suffers a security breach resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts. The data also contains 77,000 accounts from State Farm, an insurance company.
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@NFL Twitter Account
June 8, 2016
Online miscreants take over the National Football League's Twitter account and used it to falsely report the death of league commissioner Roger Goodell.
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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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Castorama
June 8, 2016
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[ hack, xss, retail ]
French DIY goods store Castorama pull its website offline after unknown attackers manipulated the site search function to suggest rude versions of household appliances.
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Twitter
June 7, 2016
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
The same hacker who had links to the recent MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr data breaches, claims to have obtained a database from Twitter, which includes email addresses (and sometimes two per person), usernames, and plain-text passwords. Tessa88 is selling the cache for 10 bitcoins, or about $5,820 at the time of writing.
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George Harrison Twitter Account (@GeorgeHarrison)
June 7, 2016
George Harrison's Twitter account is hacked but the hacker didn't know he was dead.
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Lorrie Cranor
June 7, 2016
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[ social, government ]
Lorrie Cranor, FTC's chief technologist gets her mobile phone number hijacked by an ID thief.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter account
June 6, 2016
A hacker or hacking group going by the name of "OurMine Team" briefly takes control of Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts, apparently using information from a major LinkedIn security breach that occurred in 2012.
