University of Limpopo
May 13, 2016
•[ hack, leak, education ]
New World Hackers (NWH), one of the hacking crews participating in the Anonymous #OpAfrica campaign, leak data obtained after hacking and then defacing the website of the University of Limpopo from the town of Polokwane, South Africa.
Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies
May 18, 2016
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies notifies 4,082 patients after discovering that malware had been injected into their system in November, 2015.
Central Bank of Tunisia
May 15, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Anonymous has taken down five more banks as part of OpIcarus. The targets are the Bank of France, the Central bank of the United Arab Emirates, the Central Bank of Tunisia, the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Philippine National Bank.
Fur Affinity
May 20, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Fur Affinity, a community people with an interest in anthropomorphic animal characters such as wolves and foxes is hacked and the hackers may have run off with email addresses and hashed passwords.
Commercial Bank of Ceylon
May 16, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
The Sri Lanka-based Commercial Bank of Ceylon releases a statement admitting that a "hacking attack" on its website resulted in a successful intrusion. However, no customer data has been compromised.
Pornhub[.]com
May 14, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Few days after kicking off its bug bounty problem, Pornhub is hacked by an underground researcher who claims to sell the access to a command execution shell for $1000.
np
May 14, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of #OpLGBT, the Anonymous take down a number of government websites in North Carolina.
Bank of England
May 13, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
In name of OpIcarus, the Anonymous claim to have taken down the internal email server of the Bank of England.
Central bank of South Korea
May 13, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Another round of OpIcarus. This time the targets are: Central Bank of Jordan, Central bank of South Korea, Bank of Compagnie Monegasque, Central Bank of Montenegro.
Unnamed adult forum
May 12, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
An unnamed porn forum is hacked and details of 100,000 members leaked.
PerezHilton
May 9, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Cyphort Labs reveal the details of a malvertising campaign targeting PerezHilton.com
Kiddicare
May 9, 2016
•[ hack, retail ]
Babycare retailer Kiddicare has warned customers that personal data consisting of 795,000 records shared with the store has been stolen by hackers.
Laremy Tunsil Twitter account
April 29, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Laremy Tunsil, a college football player has his Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked.
17 (an app particularly popular in Asia)
April 29, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A hacker advertises a cache of 20,000 email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app '17', which is particularly popular in Asia.
Spotify
April 25, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials, including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details, appears on Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible hack. The company, asked, denies the incident.
Archdiocese of Denver
April 21, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Archdiocese of Denver notifies 18,000 individuals to have discovered a breach happened on November 2015 after an unauthorized person accessed an Archdiocese of Denver database maintained by a third-party.
Reyes & Barsoum L.L.P.
April 19, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
A group of California workers claim in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally broke into their lawyers' database and stole over 32,000 confidential workers comp files.
mayline
April 18, 2016
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
sn0n hacks mayline.com and dumps 2,803 records with usernames and hashed passwords.
The Fappening Forum
April 13, 2016
•[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Fappening Forum is hacked, exposing 179,000 accounts. After the breach the forum is hit by malvertising distributing ransomware.
Mossack Fonseca
April 5, 2016
•[ hack, vulnerability, professional ]
Apparently the staggering leak of 2.6 TB from law firm Mossack Fonseca known as the Panama Papers seems to be due to a hack exploiting a Wordpress Vulnerability.