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Steam
December 25, 2015
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[ ddos, misconfiguration, technology ]
A DDoS attack against Steam causes the company to deploy a new caching configuration in production, which leads to the inadvertent exposure of 34,000 users.
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Unknown Organization
December 25, 2015
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
Members of the Anonymous hacker collective deface the Asia Pacific Telecommunity website (apt.int), gain access to the site's admin panel and also manage to get their hands on a database dump.
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Costa Rica Ministry of the Environment
December 25, 2015
Egyptian hackers associated with the Anonymous Rabaa Team deface the website of the Ministry of the Environment in Costa Rica, and more specifically, two pages with details about the System of Conservation Areas and the Isla del Coco (Cocos Island).
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EA
December 24, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad, the group of hackers who threatened to ruin Christmas for gamers decide to keep their promise and take down the Electronic Arts servers.
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Livestream
December 24, 2015
Video live-streaming service Livestream notifies customers of a security breach that may have given unauthorized persons access to user information such as email addresses, encrypted passwords, dates of birth and phone numbers.
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Prykarpattiaoblenergo
December 23, 2015
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[ hack, malware, energy ]
The Ukrainian government blames power outages in western Ukraine on hacker attacks by Russian special services. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), malware has been found in the networks of some utilities. Moreover, these malware intrusions coincided with a non-stop telephone flood at utility plants and technical support departments, according to local reports.
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Hyatt Hotels Corporation
December 23, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Hyatt Hotels Corporation announces that it recently identified malware on computers that operate the payment processing systems for Hyatt-managed locations (627 properties across more than 50 countries).
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Kyivoblenergo
December 23, 2015
In December 2015, a threat actor compromised Kyivoblenergo, a power distribution company near Kyiv. This was part of a larger attack that disabled parts of the Ukrainian power grid.
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Juan Pardinas
December 21, 2015
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[ 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 Juan Pardinas, the director of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.
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Sanrio Digital
December 21, 2015
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
Chris Vickery, a security researcher discovers a leaked database of more than 3.3 million user accounts for Sanriotown.com and other Sanrio-owned websites like hellokitty.com and mymelody.com.
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Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations
December 19, 2015
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[ leak, government ]
Armenian hackers from the Monte Melkonian Cyber Army hack the official websites of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and leak a trove of sensitive documents belonging to local citizens.
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Xbox Live
December 18, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad prepare their Christmas campaign and claim responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft's Xbox Live service.
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Juniper Networks
December 17, 2015
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Juniper Networks issues an urgent security advisory about "unauthorized code" found within the operating system used by some of the company's firewalls and Secure Service Gateway appliances.
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NIC
December 17, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Turkey National Domain Registrar NIC.tr is the victim of a sustained DDoS attack that affects the entire national Internet infrastructure.
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Landry's
December 17, 2015
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[ financial, retail ]
Landry's Inc. is the latest hospitality firm to suffer a credit card breach.
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City of Boston
December 16, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Several Internet services in Boston are disrupted by a DDoS attack, defined as a "minor act of cybervandalism" . The outage, affects city agencies and the police and fire departments.
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http://keepyourlinks
December 16, 2015
C0d3c1t4d3l hacks keepyourlinks.com and dumps 4,586 usernames and clear text passwords.
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Swiss Cleaners
December 15, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
The dry cleaning firm Swiss Cleaners suffered a point of sale data breach that could have potentially stolen the data from every payment card type used in the eight-store chain for almost one year.
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http://www
December 14, 2015
ProjectDump hacks bluebooktrader.com and dumps 6,187 usernames and hashed passwords.
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European Space Agency
December 14, 2015
Members of the online hacktivist Anonymous hack several subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leak personal and login credentials of more than 8000 subscribers and officials.
