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Multi State Lottery Association
April 14, 2015
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[ insider, hack, financial ]
Eddie Raymond Tipton, the former security boss of the Multi State Lottery Association, is charged with fraud after allegedly hacking with a rootkit the computer that picks the winning numbers.
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SC Daily Phone Spam List
April 14, 2015
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[ leak ]
In early 2015, a spam list known as SC Daily Phone emerged containing almost 33M identities. The data includes personal attributes such as names, physical and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and phone numbers. Read more about spam lists in HIBP.
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Al-Alam
April 13, 2015
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[ government, hack ]
Saudi hackers take over the official Twitter account of Iran's state Television Al-Alam (@alalam_news), posting material supportive of the Saudi-led air war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen.
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Hobart Airport
April 13, 2015
Hobart Airport's website is defaced by Team System DZ with a message supporting radical group Islamic State (IS) over the weekend.
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alhayat
April 13, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
In name of #OpSaudi, the Yemen Cyber Army hacks alhayat.com and dumps 926 records including usernames and hashed passwords.
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Homebridge
April 13, 2015
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[ financial, malware, healthcare ]
Homebridge notifies an undisclosed number of current and former employees that unauthorized access was gained to human resource records via malware implanted on a limited number of computers, and that the stolen personal information may have been used to file fraudulent tax returns.
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Kelly Brook
April 13, 2015
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[ leak, hack ]
Yet another trail of the infamous Fappening affair. This time it's the turn of Kelly Brook, whose nude photos are leaked by unknown hackers.
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Vatican City
April 13, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
A Turkish hacker with the handle @THTHerakles shut down the Vatican City official website (vatican.va) to protest against Pope Francis' remarks in which he used the word "genocide" to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks.
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Montreal Police Department
April 12, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The hacker group Anonymous Quebec takes down the Montreal Police department website and the officers' union to protest against the brutality used during student demonstrations.
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lhbltd
April 11, 2015
The Anonymous breach into an Israeli gun shop website (lhbltd.com) and leak login credentials plus personal details of its local and international customers, including some government officers.
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Biggby Coffee
April 10, 2015
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[ hack, retail ]
Biggby Coffee announces that an intruder forced their way into its systems and accessed a database containing personal information.
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Hunan Police Academy
April 10, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
AnonymousGlobo defaces several Chinese government websites including the Hunan (a province in China) Police Academy website in solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
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TV5Monde
April 9, 2015
TV5Monde, a multi-station television network headquartered in Paris, France, has 11 of its TV stations taken off the air. In the same time it suffers an internal IT outage alongside a social media and website takeover. The Cyber Caliphate, a group of Pro-ISIS hackers claims responsibility. However, it was later revelated that the hack was a false flag operation carried out by APT28.
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Embassy of Turkmenistan in Belarus
April 9, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
The website of Turkmenistan's embassy in Belarus is taken offline following an apparent hack by two ISIS supporters.
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Kendall Jenner
April 8, 2015
Kendall Jenner's Twitter account is hacked, and begins posting some out-of-character messages to her 10.2 million followers.
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The Jewish Community of China
April 7, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Other #OpIsrael attacks: Anonymous, Anonymous Arabe, Anonymous Arab and AnonGhost deface several private domains and several governmental sites in addition to leaking data of Israeli citizens.
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White House
April 7, 2015
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[ espionage, hack, government ]
Threat actors that are suspected to be from Russia have compromised unclassified White House networks using access from compromised networks at the State Department. The hack was first discovered in October 2014.
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British Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
April 7, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Islamist hackers of the Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail deface uk-air.defra.gov.uk, a website run by the British Government's Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and dedicated to monitoring air pollution.
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United Nations
April 5, 2015
A group of hackers going with the handle of Indonesian Cyber Freedom defaces a sub-domain of the United Nations website (sgp.undp.org).
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Wellesley College
April 5, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
4/2o Cell AKA @Puttied hacks a subdomain of wellesley.edu (mobius.wellesley.edu) and claims to have obtained 700 records.
