Albuquerque Police Department
March 31, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Albuquerque Police Department is the target of a DDoS attack carried on by the Infamous Anonymous collective.
Armed Forces Training Authority
March 31, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A Yemeni hacker going with the handle of YMH defaces the official website of Egyptian Armed Forces Training Authority (mtc.edu.eg).
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
March 30, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The pro-Palestinian hacktivist AnonGhost hacks and defaces the official website of Israeli Agricultural Research Organization, which is ran by Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Pakistani Consulate in Jeddah
March 30, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle H4$N4!N H4XOR from Pakistan Haxor Crew hacks and defaces the official website of Pakistani consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia against corrupt government in the country.
Rafael Correa Twitter account
March 29, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The official Twitter account of Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael), the president of Ecuador, has been hijacked. Anonymous Ecuador hackers are apparently behind the attack.
Telecommunications Directorate
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers of the RedHack group have launched a cyberattack against the official website of Turkey's Telecommunications Directorate (tib.gov.tr) in response to the decision to ban YouTube and Twitter in the country.
California Department of Motor Vehicles
March 22, 2014
•[ financial, government ]
The California Department of Motor Vehicles appears to have suffered a wide-ranging credit card data breach involving online payments. The Department states that its computers were not breached directly, but rather the breach happened to a card processor.
Julie Bishop
March 18, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The verified Twitter account of Julie Bishop, the Australian minister for foreign affairs, has been hacked. The attacker posted some tweets in an effort to lure Bishop's followers to a phishing site.
Syrian National Coalition
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The Syrian Electronic Army breaches and defaces the official website of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (etilaf.org). A number of other sites related to the organization have also been targeted.
Russian Industrial Investment Fund
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists of the Russian Cyber Command (@Rucyborg) claim to have hacked the computer of Alexandr Bagnuk, the president of the Russian Industrial Investment Fund, a semi-governmental investment company established by a decree of the president of Russia.
maidansupport
February 28, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists continue to launch attacks against Ukrainian government websites. The latest targets are the sites of the parliament, or the Verkhovna Rada (rada.gov.ua), the Right Sector nationalist movement (banderivets.org.ua), but also some Euromaidan websites.
Various Government Websites
February 26, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Anonymous hackers once again target several websites of the Philippines government. The hacktivists are protesting against a provision of the Cybercrime Prevention Act that violates freedom of speech.
UN Internet Governance Forum
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, leak, government ]
In February 2014, the Internet Governance Forum (formed by the United Nations for policy dialogue on issues of internet governance) was attacked by hacker collective known as Deletesec. Although tasked with "ensuring the security and stability of the Internet", the IGFs website was still breached and resulted in the leak of 3,200 email addresses, names, usernames and cryptographically stored passwords.
National Portal of India
February 19, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers of ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC) hack india.gov.in, the National Portal of India, posting a message in favor of Kashmir.
United Socialist Party of Venezuela
February 15, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The verified Twitter account (@PartidoPSUV) of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is hacked by LulzSec Peru.
Presidential Adviser
February 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Again an action in name of Opindependence. This time Anonymous Ukraine hacks the e-mail account of Laurynas Jonavicius (adviser of the President of Lithuania), leaking some emails.
UK Government Communications Headquarters
February 12, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Even the website of the Government Communications Headquarters (gchq.gov.uk) is disrupted by a DDoS attack.
Kars Municipality
February 10, 2014
•[ hack, government, education ]
The infamous RedHack collective joins the protests against the new Internet Law, and leak around two dozen records. They also deface a couple of local sites and hack the Ministry of Education.
Official website of the President of Nepal
February 8, 2014
•[ hack, leak, sqlinjection ]
Two separate attacks deface the official website of Nepal's Office of the President (presidentofnepal.gov.np). In the first case, the attacker who goes by Dr.3v1l, also leaked some information stolen from the DB. The second attack was carried out by an Indian hacker.
West Bengal Public Health Engineering Department
February 4, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
West Bengal's Public Health Engineering Department (wbphed.gov.in) is attacked and defaced by a group of Pakistani hacktivists demanding to "free Kashmir" among other things.
