Hootsuite
March 21, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hootsuite is the victim of a DDoS Attack.
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.
Namecheap
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Web-hosting service Namecheap is hit with one of the largest distributed-denial-of-service attacks affecting roughly 300 domain names hosted by Namecheap.
Energie Steiermark
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, energy ]
Energie Steiermark, an energy company in Austria's Styria province, put out a notice that they have been hacked.
Muslim Directory
February 17, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker using the handle @th3inf1d3l announces a leak of data from muslimdirectory.co.uk resulting in 38,903 user credentials being leaked online.
EA
March 19, 2014
•[ hack, social, phishing ]
One of Electronic Arts' servers is breached, allowing hackers to create a phony Apple log-in screen that prompts users for personal information.
Valley View Hospital
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, financial, malware ]
Social Security numbers and payment card data is among the personal information that may have been compromised for about 5,400 patients of Colorado-based Valley View Hospital after a computer virus was identified on some hospital computers.
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.
Citroen
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Citroen joins the list of the victims of the ColdFusion Vulnerability. The Guardian reveals that one of the carmaker's German websites was hacked to include a backdoor.
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.
Sears
February 28, 2014
•[ hack, retail ]
Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD), investigates a possible security breach after the trail of cyberattacks on other retailers (such as Target).
Texas State Technical College
February 19, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Texas State Technical College (tstc.edu) Waco notifies almost 3,000 former students and fewer than 2,000 employees that personal information may have been compromised after an unauthorized party remotely gained access to a server that contained the data.
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.
Silk Road
February 13, 2014
•[ hack, financial, retail ]
Using a known Bitcoin vulnerability the popular marketplace Silk Road is hacked, losing approximately 4,400 bitcoins, presently worth around $2.6 million.
Bitstamp
February 12, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Bitcoin exchange service Bitstamp suspends withdrawals while dealing with a denial-of-service (DOS) attack.
Supercell Facebook Pages
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
The Facebook pages of two games, Hay Day and Clash of Clans, developed by the Helsinki-based video game developer Supercell are hacked. The attack is executed by hijacking the emails of two Supercell employees.
Cloudflare
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A distributed denial-of-service attack targeting Cloudflare reaches 400 gigabits per second,making it the largest DDoS attack ever recorded.
MarkMonitor
February 6, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A failed attempt that's worth to be mentioned: the Syrian Electronic Army attempts to hack a number of high profile websites, including Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and Google, by hacking into the domain management service provider MarkMonitor.
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.
Olmsted Medical Center
February 3, 2014
•[ hack, healthcare ]
The employee database of the Olmsted Medical Center is unlawfully accessed, exposing the information of about 500 employees.
