Minnesota Department of Education
May 13, 2015
•[ hack, education, government ]
Minnesota student testing is suspended again after what is believed to be a sophisticated hacking attempt.
lottoland
May 11, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
GrenXPaRTa claims to have hacked lottoland.co.uk and dumps 9,702 usernames and passwords
Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs
May 11, 2015
•[ espionage, government ]
Singapore Minister of Information and Communications reveals that the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs was the victim of an advanced attack, last year, which forced the affected devices to be disconnected from the network.
Website of the Kenyan President
May 11, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The website of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (president.go.ke) is defaced by the Indonesian based Gantengers Crew.
euromilhoes
May 8, 2015
•[ hack, leak, government ]
A hacker called Fokinz hacks euromilhoes.com and dumps 19,352 usernames and passwords.
Iranian Ministry of Defense
May 7, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
A Saudi hacker going with the handle of RxR HaCker defaces the official website of the Iranian Ministry of Defense (gozinesh.mod.ir), insulting Iran's leader Ali Khamenei over war in Yemen.
Baltimore Police
May 4, 2015
•[ leak, phishing, government ]
After the leak of Baltimore Police email addresses earlier this month, several officers fall victim to a phishing attack, and consequently a crew of hacktivists (Hagash Team) leak on Pastebin a set of eight email addresses and the passwords for accessing the accounts.
Baltimore Police Department
May 3, 2015
•[ leak, government ]
The Anonymous claim to have breached the servers of the Baltimore Police Department (baltimorepolice.org) and leak a set of Baltimore Police email addresses followed by the IP addresses of web and email services.
World Trade Organization
May 1, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker affiliated with the Anonymous hacks a subdomain of the World Trade Organization and dumps personal data belonging to more than 2,000 WTO officials and staff members.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
April 27, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, government ]
In April 2015, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) published tens of thousand of emails sent by Indian citizens supporting net neutrality as part of the SaveTheInternet campaign. The published data included lists of emails including the sender's name and email address as well as the contents of the email as well, often with signatures including other personal data.
Taipei Mayor's Office
April 14, 2015
•[ government, hack, espionage ]
The computer on the desk of Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je's secretary is hacked. Investigators trace the perpetrator to China.
Multi State Lottery Association
April 14, 2015
•[ insider, hack, financial ]
Eddie Raymond Tipton, the former security boss of the Multi State Lottery Association, is charged with fraud after allegedly hacking with a rootkit the computer that picks the winning numbers.
Al-Alam
April 13, 2015
•[ government, hack ]
Saudi hackers take over the official Twitter account of Iran's state Television Al-Alam (@alalam_news), posting material supportive of the Saudi-led air war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen.
Vatican City
April 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A Turkish hacker with the handle @THTHerakles shut down the Vatican City official website (vatican.va) to protest against Pope Francis' remarks in which he used the word "genocide" to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks.
Montreal Police Department
April 12, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The hacker group Anonymous Quebec takes down the Montreal Police department website and the officers' union to protest against the brutality used during student demonstrations.
Hunan Police Academy
April 10, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
AnonymousGlobo defaces several Chinese government websites including the Hunan (a province in China) Police Academy website in solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Embassy of Turkmenistan in Belarus
April 9, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The website of Turkmenistan's embassy in Belarus is taken offline following an apparent hack by two ISIS supporters.
The Jewish Community of China
April 7, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Other #OpIsrael attacks: Anonymous, Anonymous Arabe, Anonymous Arab and AnonGhost deface several private domains and several governmental sites in addition to leaking data of Israeli citizens.
White House
April 7, 2015
•[ espionage, hack, government ]
Threat actors that are suspected to be from Russia have compromised unclassified White House networks using access from compromised networks at the State Department. The hack was first discovered in October 2014.
British Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
April 7, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Islamist hackers of the Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail deface uk-air.defra.gov.uk, a website run by the British Government's Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and dedicated to monitoring air pollution.
