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Denmark's Socialist Party
June 11, 2014
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[ leak, government ]
The Danish branch of the infamous collective Anonymous targets Denmark's Socialist Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti) for signing and passing mass Internet surveillance bill and leaks logins and SSNs of a couple of dozens of members.
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Sky News Egypt
June 11, 2014
A hacker called Hmeidefaces the official website of ESETand 4 of itsSpanish domains.
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Undisclosed online gambling website
June 10, 2014
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[ hack, ddos ]
Cloud-based security services provider Incapsula states to have fought off a 100 Gbps DDoS attack against an online gambling website.
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Deezer
June 10, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The French music service Deezer is struck by a DDoS attack, which remains unavailable during the weekend.
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Evernote
June 10, 2014
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mobile and online note app Evernote was hit with a DDoS attack, taking its servers offline for several hours.
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Placemark Investments
June 10, 2014
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[ hack, finance ]
Placemark Investments begins notifying an undisclosed number of clients that their personal information may have been exposed when one of its servers was breached.
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Twitter
June 10, 2014
The names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of a handful of staff at Twitter (including the CEO) are leaked on the dark wen.
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New York Board of Elections
June 9, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The Anonymous protest against the FIFA World Cup starts here: the hacktivist collective defaces the New York State Board of Elections official website (elections.ny.gov).
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Manga Traders
June 9, 2014
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2014, the Manga trading website Mangatraders.com had the usernames and passwords of over 900k users leaked on the internet (approximately 855k of the emails were unique). The passwords were weakly hashed with a single iteration of MD5 leaving them vulnerable to being easily cracked.
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Rowan Companies
June 8, 2014
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[ hack, energy ]
Rowan Companies notifies employees, vendors, and contractors of a system intrusion.
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US Army
June 6, 2014
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[ hack, government ]
The US Army warns that databases holding information on 16,000 South Korean civilian employees of the US military and applicants for base jobs may have been compromised.
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ESET
June 6, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
The ESET Security Forum is hacked and the company confirms that account credentials of its roughly 2,700 members have been accessed by the attackers.
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Autonation
June 5, 2014
National automobile retailer AutoNation notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their payment card data, as well as other information, may have been captured by hackers that compromised AutoNation websites hosted and operated by TradeMotion.
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SingPass
June 5, 2014
1,500 online identification accounts used for accessing Singapore government services may have been accessed illicitly.
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ESET's Spain domain
June 4, 2014
A hacker called Hmeidefaces the official website of ESETand 4 of itsSpanish domains.
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Arkansas State University
June 2, 2014
At Arkansas State University (A-State), full and partial Social Security numbers are compromised for about 50,000 early childhood practitioners after unauthorized access is gained to databases related to the Traveling Arkansas Professional Pathways (TAPP).
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Linkin Park
June 2, 2014
The official Facebook fan page of the famous rock band Linkin Park (63M fans) is hacked by an unknown hacker and starts spamming vulgar images with links.
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Monsanto
June 2, 2014
Monsanto admits that credit card data along with names, addresses and US taxation information for 1300 customers and employees was compromised after hackers broke into its servers in March.
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Power Equipment Direct
June 2, 2014
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[ hack, malware, retail ]
Power Equipment Direct (PED) notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been accessed when the server that handles the company's checkout process was infected with malware.
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Brazilian Ministry of External Relations
May 30, 2014
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[ hack, social, phishing ]
The internal communications system of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations has been hit by hackers carried on with spear-phishing emails.
