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DAC Group
June 9, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
DAC Group suffers a security breach resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts. The data also contains 77,000 accounts from State Farm, an insurance company.
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@NFL Twitter Account
June 8, 2016
Online miscreants take over the National Football League's Twitter account and used it to falsely report the death of league commissioner Roger Goodell.
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UTorrent Forum
June 8, 2016
Hackers obtain 34,000 user accounts for the UTorrent forum of popular data trading software BitTorrent.
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Castorama
June 8, 2016
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[ hack, xss, retail ]
French DIY goods store Castorama pull its website offline after unknown attackers manipulated the site search function to suggest rude versions of household appliances.
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Twitter
June 7, 2016
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
The same hacker who had links to the recent MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr data breaches, claims to have obtained a database from Twitter, which includes email addresses (and sometimes two per person), usernames, and plain-text passwords. Tessa88 is selling the cache for 10 bitcoins, or about $5,820 at the time of writing.
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George Harrison Twitter Account (@GeorgeHarrison)
June 7, 2016
George Harrison's Twitter account is hacked but the hacker didn't know he was dead.
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Lorrie Cranor
June 7, 2016
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[ social, government ]
Lorrie Cranor, FTC's chief technologist gets her mobile phone number hijacked by an ID thief.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter account
June 6, 2016
A hacker or hacking group going by the name of "OurMine Team" briefly takes control of Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts, apparently using information from a major LinkedIn security breach that occurred in 2012.
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Drake's Twitter account (@Drake)
June 6, 2016
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[ hack, social, technology ]
Drake's Twitter account was taken over by an account called @2aiden3.
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Kylie Jenner's Twitter account (@KylieJenner)
June 6, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Kylie Jenner is the latest celebrity to have her Twitter account hacked.
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VK
June 6, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Russian social networking site VK.com appears to have been breached in 2012 with hackers selling some 100 million records for a mere US$580 in Bitcoins.
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Keith Richards' Twitter Account (@officialKeef)
June 5, 2016
Keith Richards has his Twitter account hacked.
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Sh0ping[.]su
June 5, 2016
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[ hack, retail ]
Sh0ping[.]su, a platform known for selling stolen accounts on the dark market is hacked. The attackers leak 16,000 stolen accounts, 15,000 accounts taken from other sites, and 9,000 credit cards.
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Tenacious D Twitter Account (@RealTenaciousD)
June 5, 2016
Tenacious D, Jack Black's music group, have their Twitter Account hacked and post the fake news of Jack Black's death.
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BitGo
June 4, 2016
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
A massive DDoS attack hits BitGo, a service that describes itself as the most secure Bitcoin wallet solution available today.
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TeamViewer
June 4, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
Users of the remote login service TeamViewer report their computers have been ransacked by attackers who somehow gained access to their accounts.
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Wesizwe
June 3, 2016
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[ leak, energy ]
In name of #OpAfrica, the Anonymous dump online data claimed to come from a database obtained from Wesizwe.
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CiCis Pizza
June 3, 2016
CiCis Pizza, an American fast food business with more than 500 stores in 35 US states, appears to be the latest restaurant chain to struggle with a credit card breach.
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North Carolina State University
June 3, 2016
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[ social, phishing, education ]
An external attacker uses a phishing scam to break into a North Carolina State University email account containing personally identifiable information of 38,000 individuals.
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Facepunch
June 3, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
In June 2016, the game development studio Facepunch suffered a data breach that exposed 343k users. The breached data included usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes. Facepunch advised they were aware of the incident and had notified people at the time. The data was provided to HIBP by whitehat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
