Deezer
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The French music service Deezer is struck by a DDoS attack, which remains unavailable during the weekend.
Nordea
July 9, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Anonymous Norway starts multiple DDoS attacks towards major banks and insurance companies in Norway, including the country's largest telecommunications company, Telenor.
Code Spaces
June 18, 2014
•[ 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.
Undisclosed online gambling website
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos ]
Cloud-based security services provider Incapsula states to have fought off a 100 Gbps DDoS attack against an online gambling website.
Moz
May 17, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Yet another DDoS attack. This time the victim is moz.com.
Aktif Bank
April 18, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Members of the hacktivist collective RedHack claim to have breached into the systems of Aktif Bank (aktifbank.com.tr), Turkey's largest privately owned investment bank. They also launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the website.
Mad Mimi
April 1, 2014
•[ 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.
Boston Children's Hospital
April 28, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, healthcare ]
In name of OpJustinaPelletier, the Anonymous take down the website of the Boston Children's Hospital.
Kansas Interactive Testing Engine
April 4, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
A DDoS attack takes down the Kansas Interactive Testing Engine (KITE, ksassessments.org), Kansas' new online student testing system.
Albuquerque Police Department
March 31, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Albuquerque Police Department is the target of a DDoS attack carried on by the Infamous Anonymous collective.
Basecamp
March 24, 2014
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
After refusing to pay a ransom, Basecamp is the victim of a DDoS attack.
Wurm Online
February 18, 2014
•[ ddos, technology ]
After being knocked down by a DDoS attack, the operator of the online playing-game Wurm online offer a bounty of 10,000 euros ($13,000) to gather any information about the author of the attack.
Hootsuite
March 21, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hootsuite is the victim of a DDoS Attack.
Namecheap
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Web-hosting service Namecheap is hit with one of the largest distributed-denial-of-service attacks affecting roughly 300 domain names hosted by Namecheap.
Bitstamp
February 12, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Bitcoin exchange service Bitstamp suspends withdrawals while dealing with a denial-of-service (DOS) attack.
Cloudflare
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A distributed denial-of-service attack targeting Cloudflare reaches 400 gigabits per second,making it the largest DDoS attack ever recorded.
GitHub
January 27, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
GitHub is taken down by a DDoS Attack.
UK Government Communications Headquarters
February 12, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Even the website of the Government Communications Headquarters (gchq.gov.uk) is disrupted by a DDoS attack.
US Federal Court System
January 25, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Several websites of the US federal court system, including the ones of the United States Courts (uscourts.gov) and Public Access to Court Electronic Records (pacer.gov), are taken down by a DDOS attack.
Namibian Government Portal
January 8, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of OpFunKill the Anonymous take down the Namibia main Government portal gov.na
