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ForumCommunity
June 1, 2016
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid-2016, the Italian-based service for creating forums known as ForumCommunity suffered a data breach. The incident impacted over 776k unique email addresses along with usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes. No response was received from ForumCommunity when contacted.
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Uiggy
June 1, 2016
In June 2016, the Facebook application known as Uiggy was hacked and 4.3M accounts were exposed, 2.7M of which had email addresses against them. The leaked accounts also exposed names, genders and the Facebook ID of the owners.
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Evony
June 1, 2016
In June 2016, the online multiplayer game Evony was hacked and over 29 million unique accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of usernames, email and IP addresses and MD5 hashes of passwords (without salt).
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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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Katy Perry's Twitter Account (@katyperry)
May 30, 2016
Katy Perry's Twitter account is taken over by a hacker dubbed @sw@ylol, sending out a series of bizarre Tweets to the pop star's 89 million-plus followers.
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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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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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Transport for NSW
May 29, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, transportation ]
Transport for NSW says it is investigating a "compromise" of the TrainLink website's reservations system, which is since then shut down. The company states that no personal data or credit card has been compromised.
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Zameen
May 28, 2016
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[ hack, leak ]
A Bangladeshi hacker going with the handle of Tiger Mate hacks and defaces one of Pakistan's largest real estate websites Zameen.com. The hacker also leaks the site's entire database online.
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Teracod
May 28, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
In May 2015, almost 100k user records were extracted from the Hungarian torrent site known as Teracod. The data was later discovered being torrented itself and included email addresses, passwords, private messages between members and the peering history of IP addresses using the service.
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paypalsucks
May 27, 2016
SonnySpooks hacks paypalsucks.com and dumps 82,169 records with usernames and hashed passwords.
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Fiverr
May 27, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Fiverr suffers a six-hour DDoS attack after removing DDoS-for-Hire listings.
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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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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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Arkansas Library Association
May 26, 2016
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[ leak, education ]
The Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) leaks details of 800 library workers from the Arkansas Library Association (ALA).
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scrum
May 26, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Scrum.org, the Scrum certification and training site contacts users to warn them of a security breach.
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eir
May 26, 2016
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[ hack, manufacturing ]
A Kurdish hacker using the name MuhmadEmad defaces five Dell subdomains and leaves anti-Turkey and anti-ISIS messages on the sites.
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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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hypergen
May 24, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks hypergen.ch and dumps 22,000 accounts.
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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.
