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Richland County Sheriff's Department
April 15, 2016
Team System DZ, an Algeria-based hacking team, defaces several of Wisconsin's Richland County Government websites and leaves a defaced page with a message in support of ISIS. The targets include the official website of Richland County Government, Richland County Sheriff's Department, Richland County Ambulance Service, Veterans Services, Recycling Committee, Health and Human Services, County Fair, Land Conservation Department, Parks Commission and Richland County Emergency Management.
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gamescollection
April 15, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks gamescollection.it and dumps 1,274 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Innovak International
April 15, 2016
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[ leak, finance ]
14 school systems, 3 in Alabama and 11 in Mississippi are impacted by a breach to Innovak International involving employees' W-2 statements.
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Janet
April 15, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, education ]
British government-funded educational network Janet is hit by a DDoS.
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jcm
April 15, 2016
Sn0n hacks the Journal of Chinese Medicine (jcm.co.uk) and dumps 13,668 records containing clear text passwords.
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Unknown Organization
April 14, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are taken down by a DDoS attack.
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Stamford Podiatry Group
April 14, 2016
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[ hack, healthcare ]
Stamford Podiatry Group notifies patients that medical and personal information of 40,000 individuals was compromised in a recent security incident.
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Unknown Organization
April 13, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, education ]
Anonymous takes down the Dalhousie University website protesting a 2015 rape case, demanding punishment for the culprits.
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Olympia School District
April 13, 2016
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[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing attack compromises the identities of more than 2,100 employees of Olympia School DIstrict.
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The Fappening Forum
April 13, 2016
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[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Fappening Forum is hacked, exposing 179,000 accounts. After the breach the forum is hit by malvertising distributing ransomware.
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Dalhousie University (dal.ca)
April 13, 2016
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[ hacktivism, website takedown, Anonymous ]
Anonymous takes down the Dalhousie University website protesting a 2015 rape case, demanding punishment for the culprits.
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Suite703
April 12, 2016
An unknown hacker offers a database containing emails and passwords of 3.8 million of Naughty America and affiliated porn accounts for a mere $300.
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Swedish air traffic control systems
April 12, 2016
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[ espionage, government ]
Despite the official reason being a solar storm, Sweden secretly suspects that a hacker group linked to Russian intelligence was responsible for an attack on its air traffic control systems last November.
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KnownCircle
April 12, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately April 2016, the "marketing automation for agents and professional service providers" company KnownCircle had a large volume of data obtained by an external party. The data belonging to the now defunct service appeared in JSON format and contained gigabytes of data related to the real estate and insurance sectors. The personal data in the breach appears to have primarily been used for marketing purposes, including logs of emails sent and tracking of gift cards. A small number of passwords for KnownCircle staff were also present and were stored as bcrypt hashes.
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Swedish Armed Forces
April 11, 2016
Sometimes breaches are discovered after years: the Swedish Armed Forces reveal that their military computers were hacked and used in an attack targeting major US banks in 2013.
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elifeask
April 10, 2016
TheFamily hacks elifeask.com and dumps 1,529 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Job-seeking portals
April 9, 2016
In name of #OpNessunDorma, the duo Anonymous Italy and LulzSec Italy hacks numerous job-seeking portals and leaks some of their information online.
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mothersenvogue
April 8, 2016
Pyopz hacks mothersenvogue.com and dumps 2,382 records with usernames and hashed passwords.
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Embassy of Russia in Armenia Twitter account
April 7, 2016
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[ hack, government ]
Azerbaijani hackers from Anti-Armenia Team hijack the Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in Armenia (@rusembassyARM).
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nct
April 7, 2016
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[ leak, healthcare ]
The National Childbirth Trust, a childbirth charity, apologises to 15,000 new and expectant parents after their registration details were accessed in a "data breach".