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Jim Ross
December 7, 2015
Unknown hackers hijack the Twitter account of Jim Ross and post the fake news of his death to his 1.3 million followers.
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http://www
December 7, 2015
Smitt3nz hacks the-athenaeum.org and dumps 1,671 users with hashed passwords.
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DailyMotion
December 7, 2015
Malwarebytes reveals the details of a malvertising campaign targeting DailyMotion, the popular French video sharing site, surreptitiously distributing the Angler Exploit Kit to its victims.
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http://www
December 7, 2015
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[ hack, healthcare ]
GrenXPaRTa hacks befriending.co.uk and dumps 7325 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Kalahari Resorts
December 7, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Kalahari Resorts announces that its Ohio and Wisconsin resorts have been hit by a point-of-sale (POS) breach between March 9 and June 8.
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Aternos
December 6, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
In December 2015, the service for creating and running free Minecraft servers known as Aternos suffered a data breach that impacted 1.4 million subscribers. The data included usernames, email and IP addresses and hashed passwords.
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http://saifa
December 4, 2015
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[ hack, retail ]
ap3x h4x0r from the Anonsec collective hacks saifa.ir and dumps 11,792 records.
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Royal Thai Police
December 4, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpSingleGateway, the Anonymous hack Thailand Police Servers to protest against Internet censorship.
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JD Wetherspoon
December 4, 2015
JD Wetherspoon reveals that its website has been hacked between 15 and 17 June this year, resulting in the potential loss of customer data including names, dates of birth, email addresses and phone numbers, as well as a small amount of credit card records
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TuneCore
December 3, 2015
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[ leak, technology ]
Tunecore is breached. The company reveals that the data that may have been accessed includes names, email, addresses, mailing addresses, account numbers, and passwords.
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Meta-Fusion GmbH
December 2, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
The second round of the campaign of the Anonymous against the Cop21 (the United Nations Conference of Climate Change) kicks off. The hacktivists hack the website of Meta-Fusion GmbH, a Germany-based official Webcast Streaming Service Provider for the UNFC.
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Australian Bureau of Meteorology
December 1, 2015
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[ espionage, government ]
China is blamed for a major cyber attack on the computers at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (bom.gov.au), which has compromised sensitive systems across the Federal Government.
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The Barbados Advocate
December 1, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
The Barbados Advocate, the second most dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados is defaced by the Muslim Electronic Army.
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Programming Forums
December 1, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
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Nihonomaru
December 1, 2015
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[ hack ]
In late 2015, the anime community known as Nihonomaru had their vBulletin forum hacked and 1.7 million accounts exposed. The compromised data included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted hashes of passwords.
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DaniWeb
December 1, 2015
In late 2015, the technology and social site DaniWeb suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of 1.1 million accounts including email and IP addresses which were also accompanied by salted MD5 hashes of passwords. However, DaniWeb have advised that "the breached password hashes and salts are incorrect" and that they have since switched to new infrastructure and software.
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The Fappening
December 1, 2015
In December 2015, the forum for discussing naked celebrity photos known as "The Fappening" (named after the iCloud leaks of 2014) was compromised and 179k accounts were leaked. Exposed member data included usernames, email addresses and salted hashes of passwords.
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Iceland government
November 30, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of #OpWhales, the Anonymous take down almost all the Iceland government websites for about 13 hours as a protest against the whaling practices in Iceland.
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
November 30, 2015
Anonymous breach the website of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to protest against the police attack on the Cop21 March and leak personal information of 1415 officials.
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Jabalpur Police
November 28, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Hackers calling themselves "Pakistani cyber attackers" deface the official website of Jabalpur police with Pakistani flags and slogans claiming revenge against Indian attacks.
