Statistical Centre of Iran
May 24, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Statistical Centre of Iran is targeted by unknown attackers. Iran tracks the origin of the attack from three Arab countries including Saudi Arabia.
Unknown Organization
May 23, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker who goes by the nickname of Amar^SHG (formerly Kuroi'SH) defaces France's most visited weather portal, M t o France.
High Commission of India in Pretoria, South Africa
June 11, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Two Pakistani hackers dubbed "Romantic" and "Intruder" deface Indian government websites including the Embassy of India in Turkey; the Embassy of India in Greece; the Embassy of India in Mexico; the Consulate General of India in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the Embassy of India in Bucharest, Romania; the Embassy of India in Dushanbe, Tajikistan; and the High Commission of India in Pretoria, South Africa.
Unknown government-linked Louisiana database
June 9, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker under the pseudonym NSA puts on sale on the dark web a database that purports to hold over a quarter of a million driver licence records compromised from a government-linked databases in Louisiana, United States.
Unknown Organization
June 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
As part of the same operations, the Anonymous take down the Romania Stock Exchange (sibex.ro).
Kylie Jenner's Twitter account (@KylieJenner)
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Kylie Jenner is the latest celebrity to have her Twitter account hacked.
Drake's Twitter account (@Drake)
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Drake's Twitter account was taken over by an account called @2aiden3.
TeamViewer
June 4, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Users of the remote login service TeamViewer report their computers have been ransacked by attackers who somehow gained access to their accounts.
FOX News
June 1, 2016
•[ hack, hacktivism, information ]
Members of the Ghost Squad Hackers team, one of Anonymous' former subdivisions, take down CNN and FOX News as part of a new hacktivism campaign dubbed OpSilence.
Fiverr
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Fiverr suffers a six-hour DDoS attack after removing DDoS-for-Hire listings.
eir
May 26, 2016
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
A Kurdish hacker using the name MuhmadEmad defaces five Dell subdomains and leaves anti-Turkey and anti-ISIS messages on the sites.
hypergen
May 24, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks hypergen.ch and dumps 22,000 accounts.
Karnataka State Police
June 11, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker named Faisal 1337 from Team Pak Cyber Attackers has defaced the website of the Karnataka State Police.
BitGo
June 4, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
A massive DDoS attack hits BitGo, a service that describes itself as the most secure Bitcoin wallet solution available today.
Several Road Signs in the US
June 1, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A number of road signs in the US fall victim to a politically-motivated 'hack' attack after being altered to show messages relating to presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
Transport for NSW
May 29, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, transportation ]
Transport for NSW says it is investigating a "compromise" of the TrainLink website's reservations system, which is since then shut down. The company states that no personal data or credit card has been compromised.
scrum
May 26, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Scrum.org, the Scrum certification and training site contacts users to warn them of a security breach.
Sindicat de Mossos d'Esquadra
May 20, 2016
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Phineas Fisher, the hacker behind the Gamma International and Hacking Team breaches hacks the Sindicat de Mossos d'Esquadra (the Catalan police union), publishes personal information about police officers (including their badge numbers), and hijacks their Twitter account.
Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates
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.
San Juan County
May 20, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
San Juan County reports that the information of patients in the county's DWI treatment program may have been compromised after an attacker gained remote access to one of its computers.
