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Official Sony Music Global Twitter Account (@SonyMusicGlobal)
December 26, 2016
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[ hack, social, technology ]
OurMine hack the Official Sony Music Global Twitter account (@SonyMusicGlobal) and Britney Spears joined the ranks of celebrities who have briefly died on the internet.
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Unknown Organization
December 25, 2016
The hacker Cryptolulz666, with a little help from the colleague Kapustkiy, break into the website of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (http://www.dutchchamber.hk/) and leak the data of around 200 users.
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Unknown Organization
December 25, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy hacks the Russian Visa Center in the US and accesses information of around 3000 individuals.
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KeepKey
December 25, 2016
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[ social, phishing, finance ]
KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, discloses how a brief compromise of the company phone and email enabled the attacker to reset some account passwords.
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Unknown Organization
December 24, 2016
The two hackers Cryptolulz666 and EvoIsGod break into The Standard Hong Kong (thestandard.com.hk) and leak a portion of around 12,000 users contained in the database.
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Steam
December 23, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The DDoS attackers from Phantom Squad have claimed responsibility for conducting a series of powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) on Steam and online gaming platform Origin servers.
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Ukrainian Artillery Units
December 23, 2016
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
Fancy Bear, the hacker group previously linked to the Russian Military Intelligence (GRU), is believed to have deployed malware on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units over the past two years.
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Data Enrichment Records
December 23, 2016
In December 2016, more than 200 million "data enrichment profiles" were found for sale on the darknet. The seller claimed the data was sourced from Experian and whilst that claim was rejected by the company, the data itself was found to be legitimate suggesting it may have been sourced from other legitimate locations. In total, there were more than 8 million unique email addresses in the data which also contained a raft of other personal attributes including credit ratings, home ownership status, family structure and other fields described in the story linked to above. The email addresses alone were provided to HIBP.
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Official Twitter account of Marvel (@Marvel)
December 22, 2016
OurMine hackers strike again and take down the Twitter accounts of Marvel (@Marvel) and other official super heros accounts linked via Tweetdeck.
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Thai Navy
December 22, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
As part of the same operation the Anonymous hack the Thai Navy.
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FBI
December 22, 2016
CyberZeist exploits a zero-day vulnerability in the Plone Content Management System (CMS) of the FBI's website, and leaks some of the information to Pastebin.
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Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs
December 22, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpSingleGateway, the Anonymous hack the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs and dump more than 3,000 employees' records.
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Unknown Organization
December 22, 2016
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[ hack, sqlinjection, government ]
Kapustkiy hacks the Costa Rica Embassy in China (costaricaembassycn.com) and dumps 50 of the 280 login credentials.
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Lithuania
December 22, 2016
The Baltic state of Lithuania, on the frontline of growing tensions between the West and Russia, says the Kremlin is responsible for cyber attacks that have hit government computers over the last two years.
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Official Google Bangladesh Domain (google.bd)
December 21, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
A group of Pakistani hackers going by the online handle of Team Pak Cyber Attackers deface the official Google Bangladesh domain. The group left a deface page along with a message on the targeted domain taunting security measures implemented by Google.
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Tumblr
December 21, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Tumblr goes down for over two hours as a result of a large-scale DDoS attack.
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Ethereum
December 20, 2016
Administrators of the Ethereum Project say the platform incurred a breach affecting more than 16,500 users. The attacker used social engineering to gain access to a mobile phone number which allowed them to gain access to other accounts and ultimately compromise usernames, email addresses, profile data, public and private messages, and hashed passwords.
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Kia
December 20, 2016
Ynet News report that dozens of brand new luxury Kia and Hyundai vehicles were stolen in the Jerusalem area after criminals were able to use information from a data leak to obtain data on the cars; three east Jerusalem residents have been arrested. The hackers were able to use the stolen data to hack the cars' computers.
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Thai Ministry of Information and Communication Technology
December 20, 2016
The Anonymous take down the websites of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and the Ministry of Defence.
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
December 20, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
In a letter sent to approximately 30,000 current and former students, UNL says that an unauthorized breach of a server hosting a math placement exam occurred sometime in the last two years.
