Greater Manchester Police
September 3, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The website of Greater Manchester Police in the UK (gmp.police.uk) is hit by two DDoS attacks. A Twitter account going by the handle @n0w1337 claims responsibility for the attack.
mumsnet
August 27, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mumsnet is hit by a new wave of DDoS attacks.
Philippine Bureau of Customs
August 23, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In name of #OpCustoms, a group of hackers takes down the Philippine Bureau of Customs (customs.gov.ph). The hackers come from Anonymous-affiliated groups Pinoy LulzSec, Elite Cyber Security and MCA and PHU DDOS Squad.
Carphone Warehouse Affiliates
August 8, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, retail ]
The personal details of up to 2.4 million customers may have been accessed after a division of Carphone Warehouse was hit by a cyber attack. It also appears that a smokescreen DDoS attack was utilised to hide the attack.
RBS Banking Group
July 31, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The RBS banking group reveals it suffered a cyber attack on its online services that left customers struggling to log on for nearly an hour.
Dota 2 Servers
August 4, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The International, the annual tournament for Valve's Dota 2, featuring dozens of players and millions in prize money, is put on hold when a DDoS attack takes down the game's servers.
Tianwang
August 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Tianwang, a rights and citizen journalism website based in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan says its operations have been paralyzed by an external attack.
Planned Parenthood
July 30, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, healthcare ]
Planned Parenthood websites are taken down by a DDoS attack and, according to the main page, undergoing maintenance.
New York Magazine
July 26, 2015
•[ hack, ddos ]
New York magazine's website was taken down, apparently by hackers trying to silence it, just hours after publishing the accounts of 35 women who say they were raped by Bill Cosby.
Voat
July 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Voat, the news aggregator, is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Telegram
July 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Popular messaging platform Telegram is hit with a 200Gbps distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Users in Asia, Australia, and Oceania are prevented from using the service.
Daybreak Games
July 10, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Daybreak Game Company is hit witha DDoS after its CEO threatens convicted Lizard Squad hacker Julius Kivimaki.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
July 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Members of the Anonymous collective claim to have crashed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) website as a part of a battle to retaliate for the murder of a member in a shooting involving the Canadian Police.
Envato
July 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Envato, the network of marketplaces is under a two week-long DDoS attack.
New Jersey Online Casinos
July 6, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
A hacker shuts down four New Jersey Internet gambling sites and threatens more cyberattacks over unless a ransom in BTC is paid.
Freeparking
June 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Freeparking, a web hosting provider, is the target of a severe DDoS attack.
Areva
May 5, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, energy ]
In name of OpGreenRights, the Anonymous take down the website of Areva, a French conglomerate in charge of building a Nuclear reactor
beastforum
April 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Anonymous target the world's largest animal abuse forum (beastforum.com) with a DDoS attack, forcing it to go offline.
Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments
April 22, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
The annual school test of Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) are suspended due to a DDoS attack.
Betfair
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Online poker rooms are under a DDoS attack. The victims are Betfair, Unibet, and PokerStars.
