Danish Ministry of Defense
April 27, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Denmark's Defense Intelligence Service says in a report that the Danish Ministry of Defense has had its emails hacked over the last two years. The hack has been attributed to Fancy Bear.
admin
June 20, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker calling himself Vigilance hacks a database belonging to the Minnesota state government, and steals about 1,400 email addresses and passwords.
Road Sign in Houston
May 30, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Someone hacks a road sign in Houston with a message against Donald Trump.
Wooster-Ashland Regional Council of Governments
May 26, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Wooster-Ashland Regional Council of Governments computer network is hacked and more than 200,000 records in are compromised.
Andres Villarreal
May 17, 2017
•[ 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 Andres Villarreal, a journalist at R'o Doce and a colleague of Javier Valdez. Valdez was killed in May 2017 and was investigating organized crime in the state of Sinaloa.
City of Fitchburg
May 2, 2017
•[ leak, government ]
Fitchburg, Mass. city officials report that the Social Security numbers of 1,800 residents were compromised during a data breach that was discovered on April 14, but took place more than three years ago.
City of Newark
April 25, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A ransomware attack hits some municipal computers in New Jersey's most populous city, Newark.
German Bundeswehr (armed forces)
April 2, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The head of the German military's new cyber command, Lieutenant General Ludwig Leinhos, reveals that army computers were targeted hundreds of thousands of times in the first nine weeks of 2017.
Mountain Home Water Department
March 14, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The servers of Mountain Home Water Department fall victim to a ransomware attack.
Ohio state government websites
February 25, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In name of #opUSA, hacktivists from the Anonymous collective take down some Ohio State websites.
Bingham County
February 17, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Hackers demand $25K-$30K after ransomware attack takes down Bingham County servers.
Unknown Organization
February 15, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The websites of the Montenegrin government and several state institutions, as well as some pro-government media, are targeted with multiple cyberattacks started since February 15th. Among the victims is the web portal of the Government of Montenegro (www.gov.me).
Iowa Veterans Home
April 21, 2017
•[ social, phishing, government ]
Iowa Veterans Home warns nearly 3,000 of data breach after phishing incident.
Sirens in Dallas
April 8, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
A computer hack sets off all the emergency sirens in Dallas for about 90 minutes.
Inland Revenue Department
February 25, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Thousands of Inland Revenue files are locked up after New Zealand's tax department becomes the target of a Cryptolocker attack in November.
Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA)
February 8, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
15,000 data files of Taiwanese nationals could have been hacked due to an intrusion in the email system.
Austrian Parliament
February 7, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Austria's parliament says that a Turkish hackers' group dubbed Aslan Neferler Tim (ANT), or Lion Soldiers Team has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that brought down its website for 20 minutes during the weekend.
Defense Integrated Data Center
April 5, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
North Korean hackers have reportedly accessed OPlan 5027, the secretive war-plans drawn up by South Korea and the United States, detailing how the allied military forces would respond to the outbreak of war in the region " including first strike targets and troop deployments.
Luxembourg government servers
February 27, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Luxembourg government's servers are hit in a massive DDoS attack that lasts over 24 hours. The attack is believed to have affected over a hundred websites hosted by the government's servers.
PharmaNet
February 15, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The personal information of approximately 7,500 British Columbians may have been compromised through the provincial government's PharmaNet system, when an "unknown/unauthorized person obtained and used a physician's login to access PharmaNet."
