Recent Breaches
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April 29, 2016 A group of hackers linked to the Islamic State releases a hit list of thousands of New York residents, urging the militant group's followers to target them.
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April 29, 2016 • Brunswick Corp. is the last victim of a spear phishing scam that allows the attackers to steal W-2 information for possibly all 13,000 current and former company employees.
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April 29, 2016 • The website belonging to Maisto International, a popular maker of remote-controlled toy vehicles, is caught pushing ransomware.
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April 29, 2016 • A hacker advertises a cache of 20,000 email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app '17', which is particularly popular in Asia.
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April 29, 2016 • Laremy Tunsil, a college football player has his Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked.
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April 28, 2016 • Solano Community College is hit with a spearphishing attack leading to the W-2 information for about 1,200 staffers being compromised.
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April 27, 2016 • Anonymous In Kenya, leaks a trove of 1TB data from the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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April 27, 2016 • LuckyPet notifies the California State Attorney General's office of a data breach that compromised online customer information.
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April 27, 2016 • Malwarebytes identifies a malvertising campaign on The Pirate Bay, distributing the Cerber Malware via the Magnitude Exploit Kit. The attackers took advantage of the leak of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.
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April 26, 2016 • Over seven million user accounts belonging to members of Minecraft community "Lifeboat" are hacked.
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April 26, 2016 • A nuclear power plant in Germany is found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet.
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April 26, 2016 • Hackers breach Goldcorp and leak a 14.8 GB torrent containing personal information.
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April 25, 2016 • Documents purporting to be from the Qatar National Bank are leaked on a file-sharing site Cryptome.org. According to Cryptome, the leaked file contains more than 15,000 documents detailing more than 100,000 accounts with passwords and PINs.
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April 25, 2016 • The Grand Sierra Resort is the latest hospitality entity to disclose a data breach involving customers' credit card information. In this case, there appear to be two time frames during which cards used at their food and retail locations may have been compromised; for a one-month period in 2014 and again during a 5-month period in 2015.
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April 25, 2016 • Forbes reveal that unknown hackers were able to hack Beautifulpeople.com and leak the personal details of 1.1M members.
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April 25, 2016 • The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) announces last week a cyber-attack that partially shut down some of its services following what looks like an unconfirmed ransomware incident.
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April 25, 2016 • A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials, including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details, appears on Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible hack. The company, asked, denies the incident.
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April 24, 2016 • Hackers from Ghost Squad take down the website of Ku Klux Klan.
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April 23, 2016 bRpsd hacks the Dark Web portal of the Albanian mafia group called Besa, and dumps the data online, exposing their hitman-for-hire service.
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April 22, 2016 • Members of the New World Hackers (NWH), one of Anonymous' divisions, launch a DDoS attack against the city of Denver's website (denvergov.org)