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.
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.
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.
Envato
July 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Envato, the network of marketplaces is under a two week-long DDoS attack.
Voat
July 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Voat, the news aggregator, is taken down by a DDoS attack.
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.
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
Rutgers University
April 28, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
A cyber attack against the Rutgers University computer network is responsible for the interruptions in internet service.
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.
Rossel
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Rossel, a Belgian media group, is the victim of a DDoS attack. One of Belgium's largest French-speaking newspapers, La Soir, along with others sites are affected and temporarily shut down. A new attack is executed the day after.
Betfair
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Online poker rooms are under a DDoS attack. The victims are Betfair, Unibet, and PokerStars.
Vatican City
April 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A Turkish hacker with the handle @THTHerakles shut down the Vatican City official website (vatican.va) to protest against Pope Francis' remarks in which he used the word "genocide" to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks.
Montreal Police Department
April 12, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The hacker group Anonymous Quebec takes down the Montreal Police department website and the officers' union to protest against the brutality used during student demonstrations.
Indiana Official Website
March 28, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
After Indiana's Governor Mike Pence signed the controversial religious freedom bill law, @YourVikingdom2015 takes down the Official Indiana website in.gov.
Police of Finland
March 26, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The official website of the Finnish Police (poliisi.fi) is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Greatfire
March 20, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Chinese activist site Greatfire.org, which masks censored traffic into the country, suffers a DDoS attack that racks up $30,000 a day in server costs.
