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Mac Forums
July 8, 2016
Someone who goes by the name "uid0" allegedly steals more than 1.4 million passwords, email addresses, and other data from the databases of popular forums including Web Hosting Talk, and Mac Forums and HotScripts, and offers to sell the databases on the dark web.
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Amazon
July 8, 2016
0x2Taylor claims to have breached the servers of Amazon, and leaks the login credentials of 80,000 Kindle users. The company denies the breach and declares the data was not stolen from its servers and is not legitimate.
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Omni Hotels
July 8, 2016
Omni Hotels & Resorts announces that point-of-sale systems at "some Omni properties" were infected with malware designed to collect payment card data, including cardholder names, credit or debit card numbers, security codes and expiration dates.
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Alejandro Calvillo
July 8, 2016
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 Alejandro Calvillo, the director of an El Poder del Consumidor, a consumer rights NGO. Mr. Calvillo is an advocate for Mexico's soda tax.
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Marissa Mayer Twitter account
July 8, 2016
OurMine hacks the Twitter accounts associated with Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer and the site's co-founder Jack Dorsey.
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Municipality of Ede
July 8, 2016
The Municipality of Ede reveals to have discovered on July 8th that the personal information of about 3,700 Ede residents has been accessed by unauthorized persons due to a security vulnerability on the municipal site.
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Datadog
July 8, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Datadog, the software-as-a-service monitoring and analytics platform, is hit by hackers and strongly suggests that customers initiate password resets.
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Unknown Organization
July 7, 2016
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[ hack, leak, government ]
In retaliation for the Alton Sterling killing, a hacker called @0x2Taylor hacks the Baton Rouge city government's servers and leaks 50,000 Baton Rouge Police records.
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Netia
July 7, 2016
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
A Ukrainian hacker going by the handle of Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) breaches the servers of Poland's telecom company Netia SA and leak a 14GB file containing customers' details.
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Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (zbc.co.zw)
July 6, 2016
In name of #ZimShutDown2016 or #ShutDownZimbabwe, the Anonymous take down the websites of the country's official portal (zim.gov.zw), ZANU-PF " Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) and Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (zbc.co.zw).
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WikiLeaks
July 6, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Because of a spat with the Anonymous, OurMine take down the Wikileaks website.
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Zimbabwean government official website (zim.gov.zw)
July 6, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
In name of #ZimShutDown2016 or #ShutDownZimbabwe, the Anonymous take down the websites of the country's official portal (zim.gov.zw), Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (zbc.co.zw), and the website of the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF).
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Twitter Account for NASA's Kepler (@NASAKepler)
July 6, 2016
The official Twitter account for NASA's Kepler (@NASAKepler) is hacked and posts an offending image and a dodgy link.
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Trillian
July 4, 2016
Cerulean Studios reveal to have discovered a breach affecting their blog and forums. The breach affects potentially 3 million records and could possibly date back to December 2015.
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LeafyIsHere YouTube Channel
July 4, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp hacks LeafyIsHere, a popular YouTube Channel with over 3 million subscribers and defaces the main page.
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dBforums
July 4, 2016
In July 2016, a data breach of the now defunct database forum "dBforums" appeared for sale alongside several others hacked from the parent company, Penton. The breach of the vBulletin based forum contained 363k unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.
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Mac Forums
July 3, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2016, the self-proclaimed "Ultimate Source For Your Mac" website Mac Forums suffered a data breach. The vBulletin-based system exposed over 326k usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was later discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum. Mac Forums did not respond when contacted about the incident via their contact us form.
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topcon
July 1, 2016
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[ hack ]
An anonymous hacker dumps the database of topcon.com, containing 21,000 records, on the Dark Web.
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crackingforum
July 1, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
The entire database of crackingforum.com (658,644 entries) is leaked on the darknet.
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Unknown Organization
July 1, 2016
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[ hack, retail ]
DID Electrical reveals that more than 300 people have had card details stolen after an online security breach. The attack happened between June 15 and June 26.
