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Muslim Match
June 24, 2016
In June 2016, the Muslim Match dating website had 150k email addresses exposed. The data included private chats and messages between relationship seekers and numerous other personal attributes including passwords hashed with MD5.
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Official website of Rep. Richard Neal
June 23, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
More than a dozen House Democrats' official websites are taken down, after Democrats ended an overnight sit-in to press for a vote on gun control legislation. The outage is affecting the congressional sites of Reps. Earl Blumenauer, John Carney, Rosa DeLauro, Lloyd Doggett, Tammy Duckworth, Donna Edwards, Sam Farr, Tulsi Gabbard, Alan Grayson, Marcy Kaptur, William Keating, John Larson, Jim McDermott, Richard Neal, Ed Perlmutter, Jackie Speier and Filemon Vela.
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Air India
June 23, 2016
India's national airline, Air India, is the target of a hacking campaign exploiting members of the airline's frequent-flyer program to make away with air miles.
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Carbonite
June 23, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Online backup service Carbonite forces users to pick new passwords in the wake of discovering that it was under a large-scale account takeover attack.
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2,347 US Army personals
June 23, 2016
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[ leak, government ]
As part of #OpSilence, Ghost Squad Hackers publish a file containing data of 2,437 US Army personals including names, emails, phone numbers, full addresses, credit card data.
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Unknown Organization
June 23, 2016
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[ hack, education ]
Hackers hit the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Schools Classics Project website, exposing the email addresses and cleartext passwords of over 1,500 students and employees.
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Unknown Organization
June 22, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous Legion claims responsibility for taking down the Minnesota Judicial Branch's website (mncourts.gov).
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The DAO
June 21, 2016
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[ hack, finance ]
Unknown attackers attack the DAO foundation and steal more than 3.6 million Ethereum (whose value is between $45 and $77 million).
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Romanian Football Federation (FRF)
June 21, 2016
An Albanian hacker named nofawkX-al defaces the website of the Romanian Football Federation (FRF), two days after the Albanian football team defeated the Romanian football team at the 2016 European Football Championship.
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Oi
June 20, 2016
An Algerian hacker called Red hell Sofyan defaces the official website of Oi telecom along with several of its subdomains.
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Unknown Organization
June 20, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net experiences an outage, leaving players unable to log in to popular games such as Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft due to an alleged DDoS attack. Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for the latest atttack.
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Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ)
June 19, 2016
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[ espionage, misconfiguration, government ]
The Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) fixes a security issue in their video conferencing software that allowed an unknown hacker to spy on their meetings and even access the video camera.
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HLTV
June 19, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
In June 2016, the "home of competitive Counter Strike" website HLTV was hacked and 611k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of names, usernames, email addresses and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
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GoToMyPC
June 18, 2016
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[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
GoToMyPC the remote access software service is hit by hackers conducting a "very sophisticated password attack". The company initiates password resets for all users.
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Besa Hitman-for-Hire Service
June 17, 2016
Once again, bRpsd hacks the Dark Web portal of the Albanian mafia group called Besa, and dumps the data online and exposing their hitman-for-hire service.
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Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website
June 17, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
The Union of Hacktivists defaces the Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website.
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Roberto Gil Zuarth
June 15, 2016
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
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 Roberto Gil Zuarth, who was President of the Mexican Senate at the time of the targeting. He is also a member of the opposition National Action Party (PAN).
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Fidelity National Information Services (FIS Global)
June 15, 2016
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[ hack, finance ]
1x0123, the same hacker who previously claimed to have hacked PornHub, claims to have hacked the client portal of Fidelity National Information Services.
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Ricardo Anaya Corts
June 15, 2016
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[ espionage, malware, government ]
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 Ricardo Anaya Cort s, the president of the opposition National Action Party (PAN).
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Acer
June 15, 2016
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[ hack, manufacturing ]
Acer informs the California attorney general that its online store was attacked by hackers. An unauthorized outside party has taken a year's worth of full credit card data, names and addresses between mid-May 2015 and late-April this year.
