University of Virginia
January 22, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Virginia admits to have been targeted by a data breach which has placed the private data of employees at risk. Cyberattackers were able to access a component of the HR system, leading to the exposure of information belonging to approximately 1,400 Academic Division employees.
Irish government websites
January 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A number of Irish government-related and public sector websites are knocked offline by an apparent DDoS attack.
Hurley Medical Center
January 21, 2016
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Mich. is hit by a cyber attack, one day after the hacktivist group, Anonymous, threatened to take action for the city's water crisis.
Israel's CCTV Systems
February 19, 2016
•[ espionage, hack, government ]
Qadmon (or Kadimon), one of Hezbollah's hacking units reveals it managed to breach many of Israel's CCTV systems, having had access to camera feeds from various government buildings.
Difference Games
February 16, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Team Fursec hack differencegames.com and dump 16,589 usernames and hashed passwords.
South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA)
February 15, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpAfrica and #OpMonsanto hackers from World Hacker Team hack South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA) and leak the data of 5,800 government employees.
Alibaba Group's TaoBao
February 5, 2016
•[ hack, retail ]
Local media report that hackers in China have attempted to access over 20 million active accounts on Alibaba Group's Taobao e-commerce website.
University of Central Florida
February 4, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Central Florida (UCF) admits that hackers broke into its systems and stole the personal details of more than 63,000 staff and students. The breach was discovered in early January.
jasacare
January 29, 2016
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
JASACare reports to have been attacked by hackers who managed to gain access to its email system. As a consequence of the breach of an employee's email account, patient and employee data could have been potentially compromised.
Unknown Organization
January 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
UK-based researcher and activist Thomas White releases 2.5 GB of data stolen in a recent hack of the computer systems of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the biggest police union in the United States. The activist is not the author of the attack.
Coast Central Credit Union
February 25, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
The website of Coast Central Credit Union, a financial institution that serves more than 60,000 customers, is hacked, allowing attackers to implant a backdoor.
Website of the Italian region of Basilicata
February 22, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpGreenRights, the Italian branch of the Anonymous collective takes down the websites on local authorities of Apulia and Basilicata for participating in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project.
Linux Mint Distribution
February 20, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Clem Lefebvre, the creator of the Linux Mint Distribution reveals that an intrusion on the distribution's web site took place, in which hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack the website to point to it.
Bohemia Interactive
February 19, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Bohemia Interactive announces a potential security breach of the Mantis Feedback Tracker systems, used to collect feedback and bug reports for the games Arma 3 and DayZ.
bfsihiring
February 17, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Bravewanderer hacks bfsihiring.com and dumps 24,317 usernames and clear text passwords.
Spotify
February 15, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Hundreds of Spotify Premium account details are compromised and leaked online by an unknown hacker. A number of separate data dumps containing email addresses, passwords, account types and renewal dates appear online.
Webafrica
February 12, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In name of #OpAfrica, Tobitow, a member of Team Hack Argentino and Anonymous Argentina, exploit a vulnerability in the Web hosting service of Webafrica and defaced 2,532 South African websites.
US Internal Revenue Service
February 9, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, government ]
The US Internal Revenue Service is the target of an attack able to steal the electronic tax-return credentials for 101,000 social security numbers. The attack is performed using credentials stolen from an external source.
Energobank
February 8, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Bloomberg reveals that hackers used malware to penetrate the defenses of Energobank, a Russian regional bank and move the ruble-dollar rate more than 15 percent in minutes, according to Group-IB, the Moscow-based cyber-security firm hired to investigate the attack,
Department of Homeland Security
February 7, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In the name of #FreePalestine, a hacker called Penis AKA @DotGovs dumps data belonging to 9,000 DHS officials. The trove is allegedly obtained after compromising the email address of a DHS employee.
