Israeli Defense Contractors
July 14, 2014
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Brian Krebs reveals that three Israeli defense contractors responsible for building the Iron Dome missile shield were compromised by a well-crafted phishing attack and robbed of huge quantities of sensitive documents pertaining to the shield technology.
Office of Personnel Management
July 9, 2014
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The New York Times reports that in March, Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees (the Office of Personnel Management).
Finnish Foreign Ministry
July 2, 2014
•[ espionage, government ]
Finland admits to have been attacked by hackers working for one or several foreign nations who stole a "remarkable" number of files over a period of several years.
Houston Astros
July 1, 2014
•[ hack, espionage ]
The systems of the Houston Astros baseball team are accessed by an unauthorized person, who extracted content revealing internal trade talks.
Belgian Foreign Ministry
May 12, 2014
•[ espionage, government ]
Unknown hackers steal data related to the Ukraine crisis from Belgian foreign ministry servers, prompting a security crackdown which has left diplomats without Internet or email.
German Aerospace Centre
April 15, 2014
•[ espionage, government ]
Germany's space research centre in Cologne is the victim of a co-ordinated and covert targeted attack carried out by state-sponsored hackers, according to a Der Spiegel report. Suspects are directed to China.
Anonymous
April 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, espionage ]
Israeli hackers attacked computers belonging to Anonymous and allied hacker groups, taking pictures with exploited webcams and posting the photos online.
Boston Scientific
February 10, 2014
•[ espionage, manufacturing ]
The computer networks of three big medical device makers are breached by unknown attackers likely interested in the companies' intellectual property. The companies in question are Medtronic, Boston Scientific and St. Jude Medical.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
February 6, 2014
•[ hack, espionage, technology ]
India launches an investigation after a media report alleged that Chinese telecoms company Huawei had hacked into state-run telecoms carrier BSNL.
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
February 1, 2014
•[ espionage, malware ]
Jean-Jacques Quisquater, a Belgian cryptographer, is an apparent victim of the NSA's Regin malware.
