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Point DNS
May 9, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Domain host Point DNS has been hammered with a high intensity DDoS attack on Friday, knocking servers out for hours.
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WooThemes
May 9, 2014
WooThemes, the popular Theme Creator for Wordpress confirms to have been hacked after many users complained of fraudulent credit card transactions.
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Moshtix
May 8, 2014
Moshtix, Australia's largest ticket website, is hacked. As a consequence customers report money going missing, spam and scam emails asking for credit card information.
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Bitly
May 8, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.
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Orange
May 7, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
French telecommunications group Orange announces that a breach last month resulted in the theft of the personal information of 1.3 million of its customers, including phone numbers, dates of birth, and email addresses.
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The Wall Street Journal
May 7, 2014
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[ hack, social, technology ]
The Syrian Electronic Army is back and hijacks a total of four Twitter accounts of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
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Ground(ctrl)
May 7, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
Ground(ctrl), a company which builds social networking sites and other services for musicians, begins notifying an undisclosed number of users that their personal information may have been exposed when the company's network was hacked.
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Affinity Gaming
May 5, 2014
Affinity Gaming notifies an unauthorized intrusion into the system that processes customer credit and debit cards for their casinos. Apparently no credit card data was stolen.
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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
May 3, 2014
Kai-H4xOrR, a Pakistani hacker, member of the Pakistan Haxors Crew, defaces the international roaming subdomain (ir.bsnl.co.in) of the Indian telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).
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Dr. Micharl M. Krop Senior High School
May 2, 2014
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[ insider, education ]
An 18-year old student appears before a judge after he was arrested for allegedly changing grades for students in Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School.
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British National Party
May 2, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The official Twitter account of the British National Party and its leader is hacked by Anon_0x03, an individual claiming to be affiliated to the infamous collective Anonymous.
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University of North Carolina Wilmington
May 2, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
An undisclosed number of employees, graduate students and adjunct instructors with the University of North Carolina Wilmington (uncw.edu) may have had personal information compromised after unauthorized access was gained to an applications server.
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Fridae
May 2, 2014
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2014, over 25,000 user accounts were breached from the Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender website known as "Fridae". The attack which was announced on Twitter appears to have been orchestrated by Deletesec who claim that "Digital weapons shall annihilate all secrecy within governments and corporations". The exposed data included password stored in plain text.
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4chan
April 30, 2014
The 4chan image message board, admits it suffered a security breach that saw a hacker gain unauthorised access to user information.
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Kali
April 30, 2014
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A Libyan Hackers group called "The GreaT Team" (TGT) defaces the mailing list subdomain of Kali website (lists.kali.org).
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Eircom
April 30, 2014
Eircom is forced to shut down its email service after detecting unauthorized access to the system.
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UltraDNS
April 30, 2014
UltraDNS is the victim of a DDoS Attack.
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RSA
April 29, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army redirects the visitors of the RSA Conference website to a defacement page. The attack is carried out in response to an RSA Conference presentation about the Syrian Electronic Army's hacking methods.
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DeKalb Health
April 29, 2014
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[ leak, healthcare ]
Dekalb Health notifies that 1,361 records including a mix of names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, credit card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, passwords, email addresses, insurance information, service types, and other details have been compromised.
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AOL Mail
April 28, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
AOL Mail is hacked and several users report their accounts are being used to send spam to others. The potential impact affects 50 million and all users are urged to change their passwords.
