Point DNS
May 9, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Domain host Point DNS has been hammered with a high intensity DDoS attack on Friday, knocking servers out for hours.
Ground(ctrl)
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Ground(ctrl), a company which builds social networking sites and other services for musicians, begins notifying an undisclosed number of users that their personal information may have been exposed when the company's network was hacked.
University of North Carolina Wilmington
May 2, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
An undisclosed number of employees, graduate students and adjunct instructors with the University of North Carolina Wilmington (uncw.edu) may have had personal information compromised after unauthorized access was gained to an applications server.
British National Party
May 2, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The official Twitter account of the British National Party and its leader is hacked by Anon_0x03, an individual claiming to be affiliated to the infamous collective Anonymous.
Houston Astros
July 1, 2014
•[ hack, espionage ]
The systems of the Houston Astros baseball team are accessed by an unauthorized person, who extracted content revealing internal trade talks.
University of California Washington Center
June 26, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
The University of California, Washington Center (UCDC) notifies alumni of a breach involving their course pre-enrollment system. The attack targeted UCDC's cloud-based provider, GoSignMeUp.com.
Cryptome
June 25, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Whistle-blowing site Cryptome is left temporarily unavailable after its service provider NetSol stops routing traffic towards the site following the discovery of a suspect and probably malicious PHP file.
Montana Department of Public Health
June 24, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Montana officials notify 1.3 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by hackers who broke into a state health department computer server.
British Gas
June 22, 2014
•[ hack, energy ]
British Gas' support team Twitter account (@BritishGasHelp) is hacked and starts posting very strange tweets.
Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment
June 20, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) is the victim of a targeted attack carried on through a specifically crafted malware distributed via a spear phishing campaign.
Placemark Investments
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
Placemark Investments begins notifying an undisclosed number of clients that their personal information may have been exposed when one of its servers was breached.
Power Equipment Direct
June 2, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Power Equipment Direct (PED) notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been accessed when the server that handles the company's checkout process was infected with malware.
Avast
May 27, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The support forum of Avast is hacked. Attackers get access to cryptographically hashed passwords, usernames, and e-mail addresses for about 400,000 people.
New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
May 26, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A $12.7 million supercomputer owned by Niwa (New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research) is targeted by a computer hacker believed to have come from China.
Ukrainian Election Commission
May 22, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The official website of Ukraine's election commission (cvk.gov) is targeted by a massive DDoS attack on the eve of country's presidential polls. The pro-Russian CyberBerkut collective claims responsibility for the attack.
Typepad
May 19, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Typepad, the famous blogging platform is under a sustained DDoS attack.
Road sign in San Francisco
May 16, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
An unknown prankster hacker hacks an electronic traffic sign in San Francisco warning of a Godzilla Attack.
University of California Irvine
May 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
More than 1,800 University of California (UC), Irvine, students are notified that they may have had personal information compromised after keylogger malware was discovered on three Student Health Center (SHC) computers for about six weeks.
Soma Municipality
May 14, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists of the RedHack collective blame authorities for the incident in the mine of Soma, and as a consequence they deface the official website of the Soma Municipality.
Gary Barlow
May 12, 2014
•[ hack, social ]
The Twitter account of Gary Barlow (@GaryBarlow) the former frontman of the famous boy band Take That is hacked.
