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AlJazira
February 17, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, finance ]
As part of OpSaudi, a group of hacktivists calling themselves "The Oppressed Defenders" takes down the Saudi Arabian bank AlJazira.
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Antonio Cesaro
February 17, 2015
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[ hack, social, technology ]
The official verified Twitter account of WWE superstar Antonio Cesaro (@WWECesaro) is hacked by unknown hackers wishing cancer to the company's Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon.
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Xbox Live
February 17, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
Hacking group Lizard Squad returns with a couple of alleged fresh attacks against Microsoft's Xbox Live Service and Daybreak Service, the studio formerly known as Sony Entertainment Online.
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kiwiblitz
February 17, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
@GroundingPlanes and @Guidelines hack kiwiblitz.com and dump about 9,000 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Jamie Oliver
February 17, 2015
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[ hack, malware ]
A spokesman for Jamie Oliver confirms that the celebrity's website (jamieoliver.com), has been affected by a "malware problem": a malicious iFrame redirecting to a site serving the Fiesta exploit kit.
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Nigerian National Assembly
February 17, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
GrenXPaRTa hacks the Nigerian Nation Assembly (nassnig.org) and dumps 49 MB of data.
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Haskell
February 16, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Haskell, an advanced purely functional programming language, confirms a security breach in its Debian Builds component (deb.haskell.org).
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The Ohio State University
February 15, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
The group of Pro-Palestine hacktivists Anonghost claims to have hacked the State University of Ohio (osu.edu) and dumps a list of 200 defaced domains.
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Bter
February 14, 2015
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[ hack, financial, finance ]
China-based Bitcoin exchange Bter is hacked on Valentine's Day and $1.75 million worth of Bitcoin (7,170 BTC) is stolen.
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Nissan
February 14, 2015
A very original way to celebrate Valentine's Day. An unknown Mexican hacker hacks the local Nissan account (@Nissan_mx) to find his Valentine.
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Al Ittihad
February 14, 2015
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[ hack ]
Anonymous hackers supporting ISIS deface Al Ittihad, UAE's oldest Arabic language newspaper.
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skikarte
February 14, 2015
Bl4CKJ0K3R hacks skikarte.si and dumps 1,628 usernames and hashed passwords.
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Standard Chartered Bank
February 14, 2015
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[ hack, financial, finance ]
The Pakistani branch of Standard Chartered Bank is hacked, and as a consequence many customers fall victim to illegitimate withdrawals from their bank accounts.
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Columbia, Missouri
February 13, 2015
The website of the city of Columbia, the official government website of Missouri, (gocolumbiamo.com) is taken down by a DDoS attack.
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Boleto Bancario
February 12, 2015
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[ hack, phishing, finance ]
A new attack on Boletos, the Brazilian nation-wide payment system. This time the criminals poison the DNS entry used by a bank's website to redirect the users to a site controlled by them.
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
February 12, 2015
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[ hack, espionage, government ]
The Facebook page of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army which accuses the Observatory's head of collaborating with British intelligence.
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University of Sydney
February 12, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
Thousands of students of the University of Sidney are informed that, due to an information security breach, their personal information could now be in the hands of hackers.
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Anthony Noto Twitter account
February 12, 2015
Twitter's Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto (@anthonynoto) account is hijacked in order to send out spammy links.
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Dutch government websites
February 11, 2015
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[ ddos, government ]
All Dutch government websites suddenly go down on Tuesday morning, only coming back up more than twelve hours later. The day after, the Dutch Ministry of General Affairs, issues a brief statement saying indicating the outage as a consequence of a DDoS attack.
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Flashback
February 11, 2015
In February 2015, the Swedish forum known as Flashback had sensitive internal data on 40k members published via the tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet. The data was allegedly sold to them via Researchgruppen (The Research Group) who have a history of exposing otherwise anonymous users, primarily those who they believe participate in "troll like" behaviour. The compromised data includes social security numbers, home and email addresses.
