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Minecraft World Map
January 15, 2016
In approximately January 2016, the Minecraft World Map site designed for sharing maps created for the game was hacked and over 71k user accounts were exposed. The data included usernames, email and IP addresses along with salted and hashed passwords.
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emkoelektronik
January 14, 2016
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[ hack ]
A hacker with the handle bRpsd hacks emkoelektronik.com.tr and dumps 9,253 usernames with clear text passwords.
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LinkedIn account of Vonna Weir Heaton
January 14, 2016
The teen hackers of CWA hack the Facebook and LinkedIn accounts of Vonna Weir Heaton, a former senior executive at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
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Hokkaido University
January 14, 2016
Hokkaido University reveals that the personal data of more than 110,000 students and graduates may have been leaked due to unauthorized access of its computer systems by unknown parties.
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Supreme Court of Thailand
January 14, 2016
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[ leak, hack, government ]
The Operation #BoycottThailand, aimed to expose the wrongdoing of Thai Police over the death sentences handed down to two Myanmar migrant workers, continues. Blink Hacker Group, a collective affiliated to the Anonymous leaks 1Gb of data belonging to Thailand's Supreme Court.
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Blue Shield of California
January 14, 2016
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Blue Shield of California announces that personal information from nearly 21,000 individual and family plan customers was accessed in a security breach late last year.
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uTorrent
January 14, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In early 2016, the forum for the uTorrent BitTorrent client suffered a data breach which came to light later in the year. The database from the IP.Board based forum contained 395k accounts including usernames, email addresses and MD5 password hashes without a salt.
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nissan
January 13, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, manufacturing ]
In name of #OpKillingBay, the Japanese carmaker suspends its global (nissan-global.com) and Japanese (nissan.co.jp) sites after they are DDoSed by Anonymous.
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Citrix
January 13, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
A Russian hacker dubbed W0rm claims to have broken into systems run by Citrix, and gained access to potentially a huge number of customers.
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Hundreds of Thai government websites
January 13, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous continue their campaign against the Thai government and take down hundreds of government websites over death sentences handed down to two Myanmar migrant workers (Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun) for the murder of two British tourists (Hannah Witheridge and David Miller).
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TaxSlayer
January 13, 2016
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[ hack, finance ]
Tax preparation software publisher TaxSlayer notifies about 8,800 of its customers that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to the personal information contained on their tax return.
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faithless
January 11, 2016
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[ hack ]
18,000 British fans of the dance music band Faithless have their personal data stolen after the website faithless.co.uk is hacked. The breach happened in September but is reported only in January 2016.
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Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
January 11, 2016
Brigham and Women's and Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospitals report an incident involving the compromise of an employee's email account. The information of 1,009 patients is compromised.
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TaxAct
January 11, 2016
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[ hack, finance ]
Tax software maker TaxAct informs some of its customers that an unauthorized third party accessed their TaxAct account in late 2015.
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Accounts of James Clapper Director of National Intelligence
January 11, 2016
Crackas With Attitude or CWA, the same teen hackers who last year broke into the CIA Director John Brennan's email accounts, now target the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, breaking into several email accounts and changing the settings so every call to his house number would get forwarded to the Free Palestine Movement.
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Unknown Organization
January 11, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Minnesota court system announces that its website (mncourts.gov) was down for ten days in December due to a series of severe DDoS attacks.
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Battlefy
January 11, 2016
In January 2016, the esports website Battlefy suffered a data breach that exposed 83k customer records. The impacted data included email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
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milq
January 10, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
root AKA @ciadotgov hacks milq.com and dumps 3,594 usernames and hashed passwords
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Jeremy Corbyn Twitter Account (@jeremycorbyn)
January 10, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
An attacker takes over the Twitter account of the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and posts several bogus tweets. In particular one of them mocks the UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
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LifeSafer
January 10, 2016
A hacker called ROR[RG], who acts as the moderator of the recently re-booted Hell hacking forum, dumps supposed internal documents of LMG Holdings, and more specifically, at least one of the companies it owns, LifeSafer.
