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BigMoneyJobs
April 3, 2014
In April 2014, the job site bigmoneyjobs.com was hacked by an attacker known as "ProbablyOnion". The attack resulted in the exposure of over 36,000 user accounts including email addresses, usernames and passwords which were stored in plain text. The attack was allegedly mounted by exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability.
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BigMoneyJobs
April 2, 2014
ProbablyOnion hacks a job seeker website (bigmoneyjobs.com) and dumps over 36,000 accounts online.
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JSTOR
April 2, 2014
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[ hack, education ]
Digital library JSTOR notifies approximately 800 users that their personal information may be at risk after their MyJSTOR accounts were accessed by an unauthorized third party.
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Boxee
April 1, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
Hackers post names, e-mail addresses, message histories, and partially protected login credentials for more than 158,000 forum users of Boxee.tv, the Web-based television service that was acquired by Samsung last year.
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Mad Mimi
April 1, 2014
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[ financial, ddos, technology ]
Email marketing service Mad Mimi is hit by a DDoS attack. Shortly after, they receive an email from someone who asked for 1.8 Bitcoins to stop launching attacks.
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Albuquerque Police Department
March 31, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Albuquerque Police Department is the target of a DDoS attack carried on by the Infamous Anonymous collective.
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Armed Forces Training Authority
March 31, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
A Yemeni hacker going with the handle of YMH defaces the official website of Egyptian Armed Forces Training Authority (mtc.edu.eg).
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Ministry of Interior
March 30, 2014
The official website of Kuwait's Ministry of Interior (moi.gov.kw) is hacked and defaced Shmook Amer and Dr.Hjd.
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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
March 30, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The pro-Palestinian hacktivist AnonGhost hacks and defaces the official website of Israeli Agricultural Research Organization, which is ran by Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Pakistani Consulate in Jeddah
March 30, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle H4$N4!N H4XOR from Pakistan Haxor Crew hacks and defaces the official website of Pakistani consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia against corrupt government in the country.
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Rafael Correa Twitter account
March 29, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The official Twitter account of Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael), the president of Ecuador, has been hijacked. Anonymous Ecuador hackers are apparently behind the attack.
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Boxee
March 29, 2014
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.
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Cerberus
March 28, 2014
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[ leak, technology ]
Over 96,000 users of the Cerberus anti-theft application for Android are advised to change their passwords after the company suffered a data breach.
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Spec's
March 28, 2014
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
About 550,000 customers, as well as employees of Spec's may have had personal information compromised in a malware attack that impacted 34 locations (and dates back to Oct. 31, 2012).
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Telecommunications Directorate
March 28, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
Hackers of the RedHack group have launched a cyberattack against the official website of Turkey's Telecommunications Directorate (tib.gov.tr) in response to the decision to ban YouTube and Twitter in the country.
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University of Wisconsin Parkside
March 28, 2014
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[ hack, malware, education ]
About 15,000 University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UW-Parkside) students are notified that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised by hackers who installed malware on a server.
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Sorenson Communications
March 27, 2014
All employees with Utah-based Sorenson Communications, and a branch named CaptionCall, are notified that their personal information may have been compromised after the data was accessed in an attack on an unnamed payroll vendor.
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Naver
March 26, 2014
A 31-year-old man is arrested for infiltrating the accounts of 25 million people on Naver, the nation's largest Web portal. According to the National Police Agency, the suspect, surnamed Seo, purchased the private information from a Korean-Chinese in August.
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Shelburne Country Store
March 26, 2014
Shelburne Country Store notifies an undisclosed number of online customers that their credit card information may have been exposed when the store's payment processing system was breached.
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El Agave Restaurant
March 26, 2014
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[ financial, malware, retail ]
Over 200 credit and debit card numbers stolen by hackers who installed malware on the point of sale system of El Agave Restaurant.
