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Centre d'Identification des Materiels de la Defense
February 22, 2016
As a form of protest against French Arms Trade the Anonymous hack into one of the Web portals managed by France's Ministry of Defense (outils.cimd.interarmees.defense.gouv.fr).
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Website of the Italian region of Basilicata
February 22, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpGreenRights, the Italian branch of the Anonymous collective takes down the websites on local authorities of Apulia and Basilicata for participating in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project.
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Cincinnati Police Department
February 22, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
Members of Anon Verdict, a sub-division of the Anonymous hacker collective, leak the details for 52 officers and employees of the Cincinnati Police Department. The Police Department questions the validity of the hack.
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York Hospital
February 22, 2016
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[ leak, healthcare ]
York Hospital reports a breach of 1,483 employees' identifying information.
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Linux Mint
February 21, 2016
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
In February 2016, the website for the Linux distro known as Linux Mint was hacked and the ISO infected with a backdoor. The site also ran a phpBB forum which was subsequently put up for sale complete with almost 145k email addresses, passwords and other personal subscriber information.
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Linux Mint Distribution
February 20, 2016
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Clem Lefebvre, the creator of the Linux Mint Distribution reveals that an intrusion on the distribution's web site took place, in which hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack the website to point to it.
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Bohemia Interactive
February 19, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Bohemia Interactive announces a potential security breach of the Mantis Feedback Tracker systems, used to collect feedback and bug reports for the games Arma 3 and DayZ.
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Israel's CCTV Systems
February 19, 2016
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[ espionage, hack, government ]
Qadmon (or Kadimon), one of Hezbollah's hacking units reveals it managed to breach many of Israel's CCTV systems, having had access to camera feeds from various government buildings.
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SkTorrent
February 19, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2016, the Slovak torrent tracking site SkTorrent was hacked and over 117k records leaked online. The data dump included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
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Linux Mint Forum
February 18, 2016
A hacker called Peace claims to have stolen the entire database of the Linux Mint Forum (70,000 users).
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bfsihiring
February 17, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Bravewanderer hacks bfsihiring.com and dumps 24,317 usernames and clear text passwords.
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techfactory
February 17, 2016
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[ hack, retail ]
Bravewanderer hacks techfactory.net and dumps 15,601 usernames and clear text passwords.
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4,000 confidential records of police officers, lawyers and judges in Palm Beach County
February 16, 2016
About 4,000 confidential records, the purported home addresses of police officers, lawyers, and judges, are published on the website PBSOTalk.com.
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Difference Games
February 16, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Team Fursec hack differencegames.com and dump 16,589 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Kankakee Valley REMC
February 16, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, energy ]
Kankakee Valley REMC falls victim to a possible breach, due to the access of a storage device on the cooperative's network from a foreign IP.
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Ringo Starr's Twitter Account
February 15, 2016
An unknown hacker under the name "af," hijacks the Twitter account of the ex Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr.
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Spotify
February 15, 2016
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
Hundreds of Spotify Premium account details are compromised and leaked online by an unknown hacker. A number of separate data dumps containing email addresses, passwords, account types and renewal dates appear online.
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Turkish National Police (EMG)
February 15, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
A hacker known as ROR[RG] dump 17.8GB of information data from the Turkish National Police (EMG) servers. The leak allegedly happened two years ago.
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South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA)
February 15, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpAfrica and #OpMonsanto hackers from World Hacker Team hack South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA) and leak the data of 5,800 government employees.
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Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited
February 15, 2016
Hackers from World Hacker Team hack Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited, a state-owned company that provides fixed basic telephone services, and dump the details of around 2,000 employees.
