careers.kna.kw (official website of the Kuwaiti parliament)
November 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The official website of the Kuwaiti parliament is defaced by hackers on their parliamentary election day. The hackers deface the main page leaving a message in Arabic accusing Abdul Hamid Dashti, a member of parliament (MP) of being an Iranian agent and urged other MPs to unite against him.
Eastern Indian Regional Council
November 20, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy breaks into the Eastern Indian Regional Council and accesses the data of 17,000 students.
Unknown Organization
November 17, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The Canadian army's public recruitment website (forces.ca) is hacked and briefly redirects visitors to the official website of the Chinese government.
Windham County Sheriff's Office
November 12, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
CyberZeist announces that the Windham County Sheriff's Office has been hacked, and dumps the entire database with 300 records of personnel.
City of Duluth
October 31, 2016
•[ social, phishing, government ]
More than 55,000 Duluth residents receive letters informing them that voter registration lists and other personal information may have been exposed as a result of an email phishing attack at city hall.
Potter County
October 13, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Potter County officials assure users that their voter information website is safe after learning that hackers gained access to it.
The Clinton Foundation
October 4, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Guccifer 2.0 posts what the hacker claims are files stolen from the Clinton Foundation, but the foundation says the assertions are not true.
Berat Albayrak
September 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The RedHack collective claims to have hacked personal email accounts of Turkey's Energy Minister and President Erdogan's son-in-law, Berat Albayrak.
Almelo
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers steal 22 gigabytes of data from municipal servers in Almelo.
Unknown Organization
August 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Millions of Australian citizens hoping to take part in the country's first ever digital census are left frustrated after the website used to complete the survey is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Transportation
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
An Iranian threat actor used malware known as Shamoon 2.0 to compromise and destroy computers at the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia.
Rahul Gandhi Twitter account
November 30, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Twitter account of Rahul Gandhi, the heir of the Indian National Congress Party, India's oldest political party, is hacked.
The High Commission of Ghana
November 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy breaches the websites of the High Commission of Ghana and the High Commission of Fiji.
Instituto de la Funcion Registral del Estado Mexico (IFREM)
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Gh0s7 hacks the Instituto de la Funcion Registral del Estado Mexico (IFREM) and dumps the entire database.
Paraguay Embassy in Taiwan
November 6, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Paraguay Embassy in Taiwan.
Indian Embassy - Mali
November 6, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Indian Embassy websites across seven countries.
City of El Paso
November 2, 2016
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
The City of El Paso is "robbed" of about $3 million intended for the streetcar project, when a person or group pretending to be a vendor scammed the city by using a phishing attack.
Michelle Obama
September 22, 2016
•[ leak, government ]
An image purported to be a scanned copy of U.S. first lady Michelle Obama's passport is leaked online alongside personal emails said to belong to a low-level White House staffer who worked with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
floridabar
September 22, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker or hackers associated with a former Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputy who has a long-standing dispute with Florida law enforcement that appears to have gotten him raided by the FBI managed to access and acquire what appears to be the Florida Bar Association's entire database.
arg.gov.af
September 1, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivist group Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) defaced 12 websites belonging to the Afghan government.
