Pakistan Railways
October 9, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
In retaliation for the previous attacks, Indian hackers deface the Pakistan Railways website (pakrail.com).
North Dakota State College of Science
October 9, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS) notifies more than 15,000 current and former students and employees that malware was discovered on numerous computers that contained their personal information, including Social Security numbers.
Bharatiya Janata Party
October 9, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
In retaliation for the latest attacks, a Pakistani hacker defaces several Indian websites belonging to the main Indian political party (BJP).
Steve-O
September 25, 2014
•[ hack, social ]
The stunt performer Steve-o dares hackers to break into his iCloud account and steal nude photos of him. A day after his Twitter account is hacked.
Viator
September 23, 2014
•[ financial, hack, retail ]
Travel website Viator admits to have suffered a compromise of payment card data on September 2, and confirms that some customer credit cards had been used for fraudulent purposes. Viator notifies approximately 1.4 million customers.
City of Clarkston, GA
September 15, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Iranian hackers from Ashiyane Digital Security Team deface the official website of United States government City of Clarkston, Georgia (clarkstonga.gov).
People Power
October 13, 2014
•[ hack, malware ]
Researchers at Washington-based Volexity, observe that the websites of the Alliance for True Democracy (ATD), the Democratic Party Hong Kong (DPHK), People Power, and the Professional Commons have been compromised and serve malicious code to their visitors.
Pakistan People's Party
October 8, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The official website of Pakistan's major political party, Pakistan People's Party, is defaced by two hackers going with the handles of Kai-H4xOrR and Shell Haxor.
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
October 7, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Hackers from Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail deface the official website of Massachusetts Maritime Academy (maritime.edu).
Grady High School
September 23, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
Atlanta Public School officials are investigating a computer hacking incident at Grady High School. According to a district spokesperson, nearly 200 computers were affected.
General Inspectorate of Romanian Police
September 19, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Anonymous Romania defaces the home page of the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police (politiaromana.ro).
RT
September 17, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
RT.com is hit with the most powerful DDoS attack in the website's history, which reached 10 Gbps in strength.
SAMAA TV
October 12, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of Kai-H4xOrR defaces the official website of SAMAA TV (samaa.tv) network which is Pakistan's privately owned news and entertainment network. The attack is done against the broadcasting of Indian content on the channel.
Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair
October 8, 2014
•[ hack ]
The official website of Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair, an Indian celebrity, is hacked allegedly by Kashmiri pro-separatists.
Google Indonesia
October 5, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Pakistani hacking group MaDLeeTs defaces the official Google Indonesia domain (google.co.id).
Supervalu
October 2, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
The Supervalu supermarket chain recently announced that a new malware was discovered in late August or early September 2014 in the part of its network that processes payment card transactions for some of its Shop 'n Save, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy and Cub Foods stores.
Valve
October 1, 2014
•[ hack, espionage, technology ]
Four men between 18 and 28 are charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft, the US Army and leading games manufacturers (Epic Games, Valve, and Zombie Studios), as part of an alleged international hacking ring that netted more than $100M in intellectual property.
United Overseas Bank
October 1, 2014
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
A gang of Latin American Hackers steals more than $1.2 million from 17 automated teller machines (ATMs) belonging to United Overseas Bank, Affin Bank, Al Rajhi Bank and Bank of Islam in Malaysia.
The Brightside Group
September 29, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
The Brightside Group, manager of several motor insurance websites, acknowledges a breach in its security system.
Airports Authority of India
September 24, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Unknown hackers breach the website of the Airports Authority of India (aai.aero) and steal critical data pertaining to airports around India (the breach happened on July 2014 but was discovered only now).