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Christine & the Queens
January 29, 2015
The Twitter account of the French band Christine & The Queens is hacked by a spammer promoting weight losing drugs to their 20,000 followers.
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Lizard Squad
January 29, 2015
Anonymous Protection AKA @AnonymousUK2015 takes credit for taking down the website (lizardpatrol.com) and the Twitter account (@LizardMafia) of the infamous LizardSquad Collective.
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French Lick Resort
January 28, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
French Lick Resort announces that malware has infected its payment card system, and any guest who used their credit and debit cards between April 23, 2014, and January 21 may have had their personal information compromised.
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Hope FM
January 28, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Suspected hackers briefly hijack Hope FM, a popular Christian radio station in Kenya, and play Islamic verses before it went off air.
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Temporis
January 27, 2015
The Rex Mundi collective continues its tradition, hacking and dumping data from Temporis, a French employment/recruitment agency, after the company refuses to pay the ransom.
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Taylor Swift Twitter account
January 27, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
Taylor Swift's Twitter and Instagram accounts are hacked. The fake posts encourage to follow the users @Veriuser and @Lizzard.
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CoinFire Twitter account
January 26, 2015
Bitcoin news website CoinFire and its Twitter account are hacked, according to the company's executive editor. The domain is stolen and the Twitter account hijacked.
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Malaysia Airlines
January 26, 2015
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[ hack ]
The Lizard Squad seizes the website of Malaysia Airlines (malaysiaairlines.com) and redirects the users towards an external page with: a tuxedo-wearing lizard, a reference to the loss of the MH370 flight, and eventually some phrases praising ISIS.
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Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
January 25, 2015
@IncursioSubter hacks the official website of Oklahoma County (oklahomacounty.org) and dumps 1,145 usernames and passwords.
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Topface
January 25, 2015
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
Russian dating site Topface is hacked and the usernames of 20 million visitors are offered for sale on a website. A few days after the hacked site buys back the records (officially "awards" the hacker for discovering the vulnerability).
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Nigerian Defence Headquarters
January 24, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) information blog site, defenceinfo.mil.ng is defaced.
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freshfiction
January 24, 2015
A hacker called Ouch hacks freshfiction.com and dumps 6,402 usernames and hashed passwords.
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University of Chicago
January 24, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
@MarxistAttorney adds the University of Chicago (uchicago.edu) among its victims.
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validdumps
January 24, 2015
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[ hack, finance ]
An unknown hacker hacks validdumps.ru (a database of credit cards and Paypal accounts) and dumps 2,534 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Barbecue Renew
January 23, 2015
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
Barbecue Renew, which sells grill parts through its website grillparts.com, notifies an undisclosed number of individuals that their payment card data may have been compromised as a result of a series of cyber attacks on its web server.
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French Ministry of Defense
January 22, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
The AnonGhost collective defaces several subdomains of the French Interior and Defense Ministries.
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Ghanian Government Websites
January 21, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
The majority of the Ghanaian government's websites, including its main site (ghana.gov.gh), have been hacked by a Turkish nationalist collective called Alsancak Tim.
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Aussie Travel Cover
January 20, 2015
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[ hack, finance ]
A hacker called abdilo (@abdilo_) claims responsibility for breaching the database of Australian travel insurer Aussie Travel Cover on December 18 last year. He claims to have exfiltrated 700,000 records.
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Le Monde
January 20, 2015
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[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Yet another victim of the Syrian Electronic Army. The Twitter account of the French newspaper Le Monde is hacked and posts a polemic tweet "Je ne suis pas Charlie".
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Wingstop
January 20, 2015
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Restaurant chain Wingstop notifies an undisclosed number of customers that malware was found on point-of-sale (POS) systems at four locations, and it could have enabled attackers to capture customer payment card information.
