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• Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates May 15, 2016 • [ hack, ddos, finance ] Anonymous has taken down five more banks as part of OpIcarus. The targets are the Bank of France, the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, the Central Bank of Tunisia, the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Philippine National Bank.
• np May 14, 2016 • [ hack, ddos, government ] In the name of #OpLGBT, the Anonymous take down a number of government websites in North Carolina.
• Pornhub[.]com May 14, 2016 • [ hack, technology ] Few days after kicking off its bug bounty problem, Pornhub is hacked by an underground researcher who claims to sell the access to a command execution shell for $1000.
• Trust Bank May 14, 2016 The Turkish hacker group Bozkurtlar leaks data allegedly belonging to six international banks: the Dutch Bangla Bank (Bangladesh), The City Bank (Bangladesh), Trust Bank (Bangladesh), Business Universal Development Bank (Nepal) and Sanima Bank (Nepal), and the Commercial Bank of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
• Central bank of South Korea May 13, 2016 • [ hack, finance ] Another round of OpIcarus. This time the targets are: Central Bank of Jordan, Central bank of South Korea, Bank of Compagnie Monegasque, Central Bank of Montenegro.
• Avention May 13, 2016 • [ leak, technology ] Avention, investigate data breaches affecting personal information of its employees.
• Bank of England May 13, 2016 • [ hack, ddos, finance ] In name of OpIcarus, the Anonymous claim to have taken down the internal email server of the Bank of England.
• Tien Phong Bank May 13, 2016 • [ financial, malware, finance ] SWIFT confirms a new attack in which attackers managed to illegally transfer funds from a member bank by using its system. Further details, including the bank name are revealed two days after. The victim is the Tien Phong Bank in Vietnam.
• fijilive May 13, 2016 SonnySpooks hacks fijilive.com and dumps 91,460 usernames and hashed passwords.
• University of Limpopo May 13, 2016 • [ hack, leak, education ] New World Hackers (NWH), one of the hacking crews participating in the Anonymous #OpAfrica campaign, leak data obtained after hacking and then defacing the website of the University of Limpopo from the town of Polokwane, South Africa.
• Ma Huateng May 12, 2016 Personal information on dozens of Chinese Communist Party officials and captains of industry is exposed on Twitter from an account under the name shenfenzheng. The victims include Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma, Tencent Holdings Ltd. Chairman Ma Huateng, Xiaomi Corp. co-founder Lei Jun, Dalian Wanda Group Co. founder Wang Jianlin and Sany Heavy Industry Co. Chairman Liang Wengen. Officials targeted included the governor of a major province.
• Tumblr May 12, 2016 • [ leak, technology ] 65 million passwords of Tumblr are on sell on the underground. The company admitted to have suffered a breach on May 12.
• Sebastin Barragn May 12, 2016 • [ 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 Sebastin Barragn, a reporter with Aristegui Noticias.
• Unnamed adult forum May 12, 2016 • [ hack, leak, technology ] An unnamed porn forum is hacked and details of 100,000 members leaked.
• German Christian Democratic Union May 11, 2016 • [ espionage, government ] Security Researchers from Trend Micro reveal that Pawn Storm, one of the oldest APTs engaging in cyber espionage, is targeting members of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the political party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
• Hanjin Heavy Industries May 11, 2016 • [ espionage, hack, manufacturing ] South Korea points the finger to North Korea after Hanjin Heavy Industries, a navy defence contractor, is hacked.
• Medical Colleagues of Texas May 11, 2016 • [ hack, healthcare ] Hackers breach the computer network of a doctors' group in Katy, potentially accessing more than 60,000 medical records and personnel files.
• Stephanie Brewer May 11, 2016 • [ 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 Stephanie Brewer, a staff member at Centro PRODH, a Mexican human rights and legal aid organization.
• Unknown Organization May 10, 2016 • [ hack, education ] The Utkal University portal is taken down after it is defaced.
• UserVoice May 9, 2016 • [ leak, technology ] UserVoice admits to have suffered a cyberattack in April which has exposed sensitive data belonging to a small subset of users with administrator or contributor status (0.001%).