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Military officials in the US
December 14, 2015
In reaction to the campaign of the Anonymous against ISIS, the group leaks personal data, and claims that it belongs to military officials in France and the US.
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Moonfruit
December 14, 2015
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[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
After suffering a DDoS attack by the infamous Armada Collective, Moonfruit takes down all the websites to enhance the defences and avoid to pay the ransom.
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Comcast
December 14, 2015
Researchers at Malwarebytes identify a malvertising campaign targeting Comcast Users via the Xfinity search page.
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Unknown Organization
December 14, 2015
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[ ransomware, government ]
A hacker called g0tchack hacks the website of the CIty of Providence and asks for a ransom of $1,500 to $2,000 to give the data back.
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QuinStreet
December 14, 2015
In approximately late 2015, the maker of "performance marketing products" QuinStreet had a number of their online assets compromised. The attack impacted 28 separate sites, predominantly technology forums such as flashkit.com, codeguru.com and webdeveloper.com (view a full list of sites). QuinStreet advised that impacted users have been notified and passwords reset. The data contained details on over 4.9 million people and included email addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 hashes.
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Trump Tower New York
December 12, 2015
The Anonymous set their sight to Donald Trump and take down the website for Donald Trump's trademark New York City skyscraper (trumptowerny.com).
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Easily
December 11, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
In a letter to customers, UK web hosting firm Easily.co.uk reveals to have suffered a targeted attack which exposed an unspecified number of customer domain names.
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Danish Parliament
December 11, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Danish Parliament website folketinget.dk is taken offline in a DDoS attack.
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The Guardian
December 11, 2015
FireEye labs reveal that an archived article on The Guardian website that investigates cybercrime distributes malware via the Angler Exploit Kit.
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Glorious Leader!
December 11, 2015
MoneyHorse Games announces that Glorious Leader!, a game they were developing mocking North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un, has been hacked (maybe on the wake of the infamous Sony Hack) with the consequent destruction of all game data.
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Japanese Prime Minister
December 10, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The website of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (s-abe.or.jp) is taken down by a DDoS attack. The hacktivist collective Anonymous is suspected to be the author of the attack on the site in protest of the nation's whale hunting policy.
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Swedish House Mafia Facebook Page
December 10, 2015
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[ hack ]
The Facebook page of the Electronic Dance Music Group Swedish House Mafia is hacked and the attacker posts some offending images of Miley Cyrus.
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Cricket South Africa Facebook Page
December 9, 2015
The Cricket South Africa Facebook page is hacked, and the hackers post racist and sexual content on the page.
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Elephant Bar
December 9, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
CM Ebar, LLC, the owner of Elephant Bar restaurants, announces that a PoS malware breach may have affected the information of customers at 29 locations in California, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, and Florida.
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Middlesex Hospital
December 9, 2015
The Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut reveals that the personal information of almost 1,000 patients could have been compromised through a phishing scam.
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DNS root servers
December 9, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
On November 30, 2015 and December 1, 2015, over two separate intervals, several of the Internet Domain Name System's root name servers are the target of a massive DDoS attack.
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Nexus Mods
December 8, 2015
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[ leak, technology ]
Nexus Mods announces a potential database breach. The breach includes information for about 6 million users, but the database that was breached was last updated on July 22nd, 2013.
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Pakistani Journalist Hamid Mir
December 8, 2015
The official Twitter account of Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir is hacked by an unknown hacker, apparently pro-ISI, who leaks screenshots of his personal emails to the 1.7M followers.
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http://artrookie
December 7, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
Rubber AKA @smitt3nz hacks artrookie.co.uk and dumps 1,710 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Janet
December 7, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, education ]
UK publicly-funded academic computer network Janet comes under a persistent DDoS attack today.
