Karnataka State Police
June 11, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker named Faisal 1337 from Team Pak Cyber Attackers has defaced the website of the Karnataka State Police.
Several Road Signs in the US
June 1, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A number of road signs in the US fall victim to a politically-motivated 'hack' attack after being altered to show messages relating to presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
Sindicat de Mossos d'Esquadra
May 20, 2016
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Phineas Fisher, the hacker behind the Gamma International and Hacking Team breaches hacks the Sindicat de Mossos d'Esquadra (the Catalan police union), publishes personal information about police officers (including their badge numbers), and hijacks their Twitter account.
Santiago Aguirre
May 20, 2016
•[ 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 Santiago Aguirre, a staff member at Centro PRODH, a Mexican human rights and legal aid organization.
San Juan County
May 20, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
San Juan County reports that the information of patients in the county's DWI treatment program may have been compromised after an attacker gained remote access to one of its computers.
Daniel Lizarraga
May 18, 2016
•[ 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 Daniel Lizarraga, a journalist working at Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity.
Rafael Cabrera
May 18, 2016
•[ 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 Rafael Cabrera, a reporter with Aristegui Noticias.
Alexandra Zapata
May 17, 2016
•[ 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 Alexandra Zapata, an investigator at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.
np
May 14, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of #OpLGBT, the Anonymous take down a number of government websites in North Carolina.
Sebastin Barragn
May 12, 2016
•[ 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 Sebastin Barragn, a reporter with Aristegui Noticias.
Stephanie Brewer
May 11, 2016
•[ 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 Stephanie Brewer, a staff member at Centro PRODH, a Mexican human rights and legal aid organization.
Swedish air traffic control systems
April 12, 2016
•[ espionage, government ]
Despite the official reason being a solar storm, Sweden secretly suspects that a hacker group linked to Russian intelligence was responsible for an attack on its air traffic control systems last November.
Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (mfa.go.ke)
April 27, 2016
•[ leak, government ]
Anonymous In Kenya, leaks a trove of 1TB data from the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
UK Ministry of Defence
April 22, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Up to 831 members of Britain's defence community with high-level security clearances had their personally identifying information stolen when the Ministry of Defence's business networking organisation was hacked earlier in November 2015.
Unknown Organization
March 27, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The database of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is breached and the personal information of 55 million voters potentially exposed in two consecutive attacks. The first attack was carried out by Anonymous.
Unknown Organization
March 27, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The database of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is breached and the personal information of 55 million voters potentially exposed in two consecutive attacks. The second attack was carried out by LulzSec Pilipinas
NASA
March 20, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
AnonymousCorrupt, a group of hacktivists linked to the Anonymous claim to have taken down the nasa.gov website.
Black Lives Matter
April 30, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Ghost Squad, one of the Anonymous subdivisions carrying out DDoS attacks against KKK members, launch similar attacks against the Black Lives Matter movement.
Unknown Organization
April 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Members of the New World Hackers (NWH), one of Anonymous' divisions, launch a DDoS attack against the city of Denver's website (denvergov.org)
Newark Police Department
April 18, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Newark Police Department is forced to spend four days cleaning up after a virus attack.
