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.
US Navy
October 27, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers manage to get their hands on personal and sensitive information of over 130,000 US Navy officials after a laptop of an HPE Navy contactor is hacked. The breach was acknowledged on October 27th.
City of Middletown
October 21, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The city of Middletown reveals that computer hackers gained access to personal information of people who had contact with the Middletown Police Department.
Democratic National Committee
October 19, 2016
•[ leak, government ]
Guccifer 2.0 is back and leaks new fresh documents relating to the US political system (documents allegedly showing email conversations between DNC employees and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign staff discussing Donald Trump's position on his tax returns).
Road signs in Chicago
October 17, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A number of people at the Chicago's Grand Avenue and Central Avenue intersection witness an unusual message on a construction signboard against the mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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.
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.
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.
Almelo
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers steal 22 gigabytes of data from municipal servers in Almelo.
Unknown Organization
September 7, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Servers belonging to the Project on Crowdsourced Imagery Analysis (PCIA), hosting data about nuclear tests, have been the subject of DDoS attacks just two days before North Korea's most recent nuclear tests.
Armenian National Security Service
September 2, 2016
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Azerbaijani hacktivists from Anti-Armenia Team leak the passport details of foreign visitors to Armenia and more after breaking into Armenian government servers.
2 Hong Kong government agencies
September 1, 2016
•[ espionage, government ]
Security company FireEye reveals that two Hong Kong government agencies have come under attack from cyberspies originating in China in the month leading up to Sunday's legislative elections.
arg.gov.af
September 1, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivist group Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) defaced 12 websites belonging to the Afghan government.
The Equation Group
August 16, 2016
•[ leak, government ]
An anonymous group calling itself Shadow Brokers publishes what it claims are sophisticated software tools belonging to an elite team of hackers tied to the US National Security Agency known as "The Equation Group".
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
August 12, 2016
•[ leak, government ]
Guccifer 2.0 leaks a fresh batch of documents, memos and passwords, this time from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). They include a spreadsheet of congressional contacts' phone numbers and email addresses, internal memos and what purports to be documents stolen from the computer of Nancy Pelosi.
Anderson County
August 10, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Anderson County government officials and the sheriff's office investigate a possible computer security breach (a "potential system-wide breach" of the main courthouse server) involving 1,800 people.
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.
Three Brazilian businessmen
August 5, 2016
•[ leak, government ]
In the second phase of their operation, Anonymous Brazil claims to have leaked personal details of Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Minister of Sport, President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and three businessmen who are allegedly involved in corruption.
