-
Pakistan Government Officials
October 21, 2016
Forcepoint reveals the details of BITTER, a cyber espionage campaign targeting Pakistani government officials.
-
City of Middletown
October 21, 2016
•
[ hack, government ]
The city of Middletown reveals that computer hackers gained access to personal information of people who had contact with the Middletown Police Department.
-
Sony PlayStation Network
October 21, 2016
•
[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Sony Playstation Network is the target of the Mirai botnet DDoS attack.
-
ICICI Bank
October 20, 2016
•
[ financial, leak, finance ]
Details of more than 3.2 million cash cards of customers of top Indian banks (Visa, Mastercard, RuPay) have reportedly been stolen in what could be one of the biggest financial data breaches in the country. The worst hit banks are the State Bank of India, HFDC Bank, ICICI Bank, YES Bank, and Axis Bank.
-
Weebly
October 20, 2016
LeakedSource reveals that the well known San-Francisco based "drag-n-drop" website creator Weebly.com had information on 43 million users leaked from its main database in February of 2016.
-
Dailymotion
October 20, 2016
•
[ hack, technology ]
In October 2016, the video sharing platform Dailymotion suffered a data breach. The attack led to the exposure of more than 85 million user accounts and included email addresses, usernames and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
-
Axis Bank
October 19, 2016
•
[ financial, finance ]
Axis Bank, India's third-largest private bank, announces that it was the victim of a cyber-attack, but has managed to stop the intrusion before the hacker stole any funds from customer accounts.
-
AdultFriendFinder
October 19, 2016
A hacker known as Revolver or 1x0123 claims to have breached into AdultFriendFinder, posting two screenshots that appeared to show he had access to some portion of the website's infrastructure. Another notorious hacker known as Peace also claims to have hacked in.
-
Democratic National Committee
October 19, 2016
•
[ leak, government ]
Guccifer 2.0 is back and leaks new fresh documents relating to the US political system (documents allegedly showing email conversations between DNC employees and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign staff discussing Donald Trump's position on his tax returns).
-
RedBus
October 18, 2016
•
[ leak, technology ]
Online travel giant Ibibo Group-owned ticketing platform RedBus confirms to have been subject to a cyber attack that might have exposed the email addresses of some of its customers.
-
University of Santa Clara Office of Marketing and Communication (OMC)
October 17, 2016
A hacker dubbed SCUWatch leaks a trove of internal documents from the Office of Marketing and Communications from the University of Santa Clara.
-
Road signs in Chicago
October 17, 2016
•
[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A number of people at the Chicago's Grand Avenue and Central Avenue intersection witness an unusual message on a construction signboard against the mayor Rahm Emanuel.
-
Adult FriendFinder (2016)
October 16, 2016
In October 2016, the adult entertainment company Friend Finder Networks suffered a massive data breach. The incident impacted multiple separate online assets owned by the company, the largest of which was the Adult FriendFinder website alleged to be "the world's largest sex & swinger community". Exposed data included usernames, passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes and 170 million unique email addresses. This incident is separate to the 2015 data breach Adult FriendFinder also suffered. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
-
Evony Gaming
October 14, 2016
LeakedSource reveals that Evony Gaming suffered a massive breach involving the usernames, email addresses, unsalted MD5 and SHA-1 passwords and IP addresses of 33 million gamers.
-
Noble House Hotels and Resorts
October 14, 2016
Noble House Hotels and Resorts notifies guests of payment card breaches at Teton Mountain Lodge & Spa and Hotel Terra. The breached happened on September 5 and September 6.
-
Modern Business Systems (MBS)
October 13, 2016
•
[ leak, technology ]
Over 58 million customer records are stolen and leaked online. Data includes names, email and postal addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses and more.
-
Potter County
October 13, 2016
•
[ hack, government ]
Potter County officials assure users that their voter information website is safe after learning that hackers gained access to it.
-
Vera Bradley
October 13, 2016
•
[ hack, malware, retail ]
American high-end fashion retailer Vera Bradley has revealed that hackers may have accessed customers' card data from payment processing systems at its retail stores this summer.
-
John Podesta's Twitter Account
October 13, 2016
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's Twitter account is hacked and sends out a pro-Trump tweet. Several screenshots also suggest that his phone could have been hacked.
-
Exploit.In
October 13, 2016
In late 2016, a huge list of email address and password pairs appeared in a "combo list" referred to as "Exploit.In". The list contained 593 million unique email addresses, many with multiple different passwords hacked from various online systems. The list was broadly circulated and used for "credential stuffing", that is attackers employ it in an attempt to identify other online systems where the account owner had reused their password. For detailed background on this incident, read Password reuse, credential stuffing and another billion records in Have I Been Pwned.
