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Official Portal for Manila, Philippines
June 25, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Two Turkish hackers going with the handle of VirtuaL & DARKWAR2 deface the official web portal of Manila City, Philippines (manila.gov.ph) with anti-America, anti-Israel and anti-Saudi Arabia images.
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Splash Car Wash
June 25, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
1,400 customer credit card details are stolen by hackers from Splash Car Wash exploiting a pcAnywhere vulnerability on point of sale terminals.
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Cryptome
June 25, 2014
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
Whistle-blowing site Cryptome is left temporarily unavailable after its service provider NetSol stops routing traffic towards the site following the discovery of a suspect and probably malicious PHP file.
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Directorate General Public Relations, Government of the Punjab
June 25, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Again a defacement to protest against police brutality. Hackers of the Team Pak Cyber Experts deface the official website of Directorate General Public Relations, Government of the Punjab (dgpr.gop.pk).
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Undisclosed video game company
June 24, 2014
Incapsula unveils the details of a DDoS attack against an unnamed Video Games company, achieving a peak of 90 million requests for second.
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Montana Department of Public Health
June 24, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Montana officials notify 1.3 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by hackers who broke into a state health department computer server.
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askmen
June 23, 2014
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
askmen.com, a portal with more than 14 million readers in the US alone, is the victim of a mass-injection attack with multiple versions of the official website compromised to serve malware to its visitors.
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popvote
June 23, 2014
One of the largest and most sophisticated DDoS attacks (300 Gbps peak) hits popvote.hk, an online democracy poll canvassing opinion on future Hong Kong elections.
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Black Hat World
June 23, 2014
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In June 2014, the search engine optimisation forum Black Hat World had three quarters of a million accounts breached from their system. The breach included various personally identifiable attributes which were publicly released in a MySQL database script.
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British Gas
June 22, 2014
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[ hack, energy ]
British Gas' support team Twitter account (@BritishGasHelp) is hacked and starts posting very strange tweets.
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PTV Sports
June 22, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Hackers going with the handle of Pakistan Haxors Crew deface the official website of state owned PTV Sports (sports.ptv.com.pk) to protest against killings and police brutality.
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Reuters
June 22, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
The Syrian Electronic Army is back and hacks Reuters redirecting the users to a web page supporting the Syrian regime. However the hack was possible after allegedly compromising Taboola, the ad provider.
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Governor of Arizona
June 21, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
After hacking the Arizona Department of Homeland Security, the Turkish hacker Swan is back, and this time he defaces two official websites of Arizona State Governor Janice K. Brewer.
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Pakistan Electric Power Company
June 21, 2014
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[ hack, energy ]
The official website of Pakistan Electric Power Company Limited (pepco.gov.pk) is defaced by a group of Pakistani hackers called Pakistan Haxors Crew in protest against police brutality.
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Sumo Torrent
June 21, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2014, the torrent site Sumo Torrent was hacked and 285k member records were exposed. The data included IP addresses, email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes.
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Metropolitan Companies, Inc.
June 20, 2014
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[ hack ]
About 8,500 notification letters are sent out to individuals employed by, or who submitted an application to, The Metropolitan Companies, Inc., alerting them that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to their personal information.
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Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment
June 20, 2014
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[ hack, malware, government ]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) is the victim of a targeted attack carried on through a specifically crafted malware distributed via a spear phishing campaign.
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Code Spaces
June 18, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Code Spaces, a code-hosting service abruptly closes after someone gains unauthorized access to its Amazon Web Service account and deletes most of the customer data. The company refused to pay a ransom after being extorted via a DDoS attack.
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Government Secure Intranet
June 18, 2014
British Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, declares that a state-sponsored hostile group was able to gain access to a system administrator account on the Government Secure Intranet.
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Move, Inc.
June 18, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Move, Inc. is hit by a major DDoS attack.
