Hundreds of Thai government websites
January 13, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous continue their campaign against the Thai government and take down hundreds of government websites over death sentences handed down to two Myanmar migrant workers (Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun) for the murder of two British tourists (Hannah Witheridge and David Miller).
Official website of the Permanent Mission of Armenia in NATO
January 21, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers from the Anti-Armenia Team deface the official websites of Permanent Mission of Armenia in NATO, Permanent Mission of the organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Permanent Mission of the United Nations. Additionally, the hackers deface the websites of Armenian embassies in 40 countries.
John Holdren
January 18, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Crackas With Attitude (CWA) claims to have hacked the home telephone and email account of President Barack Obama's senior advisor on science and technology John Holdren. One of the group members claims that the person who broke into Holdren's account was a hacker called Fearz, who identifies as an ex-member of CWA.
milq
January 10, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
root AKA @ciadotgov hacks milq.com and dumps 3,594 usernames and hashed passwords
Nigerian Ministry of Finance
January 8, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of #OpNigeria and #OpCorruption, the Nigerian branch of the Anonymous takes down several government websites.
Unknown Organization
December 14, 2015
•[ ransomware, government ]
A hacker called g0tchack hacks the website of the CIty of Providence and asks for a ransom of $1,500 to $2,000 to give the data back.
14 Thailand police websites
January 5, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous start their campaign against the Thai government and claims responsibility for shutting down 14 Thailand police websites to protest the death sentences of two Myanmar migrant workers (Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun) convicted of murdering two British tourists.
Juan Pardinas
December 21, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Juan Pardinas, the director of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.
City of Boston
December 16, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Several Internet services in Boston are disrupted by a DDoS attack, defined as a "minor act of cybervandalism" . The outage, affects city agencies and the police and fire departments.
Saudi Ministry of Finance
January 5, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous protest against the execution of 47 people in Saudi Arabia and take down several high-profile Saudi Arabian government websites under the banner of operation #OpSaudi and #OpNimr.
Unknown Organization
January 4, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia continue in the cyberspace: a group of unknown hackers carries out a DDoS attack on the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense moda.gov.sa.
Ministry of Information of Iran
January 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Turk Hack Team take down several Iranian government websites including Ministry of Information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Energy and the official website of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (president.ir).
Russian Federation Ministry of Customs
January 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Turk Hack Team take down several Russian government websites including the Ministry of the Russian Far East Development, Russian Federation Ministry of Construction, The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, Russian Federation Ministry of Customs.
US Customs and Border Protection
December 31, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency report on incidents where drug traffickers have hacked unmanned air vehicles (UAVs, drones) in order to illegally and secretly cross the US-Mexican border.
Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations
December 19, 2015
•[ leak, government ]
Armenian hackers from the Monte Melkonian Cyber Army hack the official websites of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and leak a trove of sensitive documents belonging to local citizens.
Securus Technologies
November 11, 2015
•[ leak, government ]
An anonymous hacker leaks a vast collection containing metadata of over 70 million records of phone calls placed by prisoners to at least 37 US states and links to actual recordings for each call. The calls, allegedly leaked from Securus Technologies, span from December 2011 to the spring of 2014.
Danish Parliament
December 11, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Danish Parliament website folketinget.dk is taken offline in a DDoS attack.
Japanese Prime Minister
December 10, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The website of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (s-abe.or.jp) is taken down by a DDoS attack. The hacktivist collective Anonymous is suspected to be the author of the attack on the site in protest of the nation's whale hunting policy.
Royal Thai Police
December 4, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpSingleGateway, the Anonymous hack Thailand Police Servers to protest against Internet censorship.
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
December 1, 2015
•[ espionage, government ]
China is blamed for a major cyber attack on the computers at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (bom.gov.au), which has compromised sensitive systems across the Federal Government.
