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Hanford Site
March 1, 2015
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[ financial, espionage, hack ]
Hackers conducted a combination of financially motivated and espionage-driven hacking operations against hundreds of companies, organizations, and research firms based in the United States and other countries, stealing terabytes of information. One of these targets was the Hanford Site, a Department of Energy nuclear waste complex. The two hackers, Li Xiayou and Dong Jiazhi, allegedly carried out their activities with the help of China's Ministry of State Security.
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GameTuts
March 1, 2015
Likely in early 2015, the video game website GameTuts suffered a data breach and over 2 million user accounts were exposed. The site later shut down in July 2016 but was identified as having been hosted on a vBulletin forum. The exposed data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 hashes.
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000webhost
March 1, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately March 2015, the free web hosting provider 000webhost suffered a major data breach that exposed almost 15 million customer records. The data was sold and traded before 000webhost was alerted in October. The breach included names, email addresses and plain text passwords.
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HongFire
March 1, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2015, the anime and manga forum HongFire suffered a data breach. The hack of their vBulletin forum led to the exposure of 1 million accounts along with email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 passwords.
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Orphan Boy
February 28, 2015
Dump Phenom hacks orphan-boy.com and dumps 3,765 usernames and clear text passwords
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frontalot
February 28, 2015
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[ hack ]
f AKA @CIeaver hacks frontalot.com and dumps about 66,000 usernames and hashed passwords.
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TalkTalk
February 27, 2015
TalkTalk admits to a major breach of user information, which may have led to some customers handing over bank information to hackers. Following an investigation it states some of its customer information, such as names, addresses, phone and account numbers could have been illegally accessed.
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Japan Association of Zoos and Aquariums
February 27, 2015
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[ hack, leak ]
In the name of OpSeaWorld, Anonymous hackers hack the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (jaza.jp) and leak about 1,500 usernames and clear text passwords.
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University of Lisbon
February 27, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
The group of hacktivists Sudoh4k3rs hacks the two subdomains of the University of Lisbon and dumps the database and the administrator password.
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New Drop High School
February 27, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
Eric Walstrom, a student at New Dorp High School hacks into a secure computer system to improve his scores. Unfortunately he is discovered.
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Chile Ministry of Defense
February 26, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
An anonymous ISIS supporter defaces Chile's Ministry of Defense website (ssdefensa.cl).
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Webnic
February 26, 2015
Almost a week after revelations surfaced that Lenovo preinstalled dangerous ad-injecting software on consumer laptops, hackers of the Lizard Squad collective take their revenge: they initially hack Web Commerce Communications (webnic.cc).
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StarNet
February 26, 2015
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[ leak, technology ]
In February 2015, the Moldavian ISP "StarNet" had it's database published online. The dump included nearly 140k email addresses, many with personal details including contact information, usage patterns of the ISP and even passport numbers.
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New York City Government
February 25, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
Almost all government agencies in New York City are unable to send or receive messages for nearly a week as a consequence of a DDoS attack. A further investigation reveals that the attack may have originated from Russia.
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Chinese Academy of Engineering
February 25, 2015
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[ espionage, malware, education ]
The Chinese Academy of Engineering suffered a cyberattack from Poison Ivy; a group that has carried out numerous espionage campaigns against China.
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Lime Crime
February 25, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Cosmetics company Lime Crime notifies an undisclosed number of customers that unauthorized access was gained to its website server and malware designed to intercept customer data, including payment card information was installed.
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The National Archives
February 25, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Law enforcement is investigating a possible data breach at the National Archives, after a hacker group releases a video purporting to show a break-in on the agency's website.
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Lenovo
February 25, 2015
Actors hack the main Lenovo web site, hijacking the lenovo.com domain name, and also leaking several company emails.
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hemda
February 24, 2015
@ThySavi0r & @anonf8 from #8bitCrew hack hemda.org.il and dump 1,324 usernames and clear text passwords.
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The Urban Institute
February 24, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
The Urban Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC, alerts charitable organizations around the country that its system for filing tax forms was breached.
