Fidelity National Information Services (FIS Global)
June 15, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
1x0123, the same hacker who previously claimed to have hacked PornHub, claims to have hacked the client portal of Fidelity National Information Services.
GitHub
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Someone using what appears to have been a list of e-mail addresses and passwords obtained from the breach of "other online services" makes a massive number of login attempts to GitHub's repository service.
Petra News Agency
June 12, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Jordan's official state news agency has claimed a hacker is responsible for breaching its computer system to insert false comments into a story describing how Saudi Arabia royalty funded 20% of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Multiple healthcare databases
June 28, 2016
•[ hack, leak, healthcare ]
Here we are again, this time TheDarkOverlord claims to have broken into multiple healthcare databases across America and lists a fresh trove of 9.2 million records on a Dark Web-based marketplace for 750 bitcoin ( 368,000).
Unnamed jewelry shop
June 27, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, retail ]
Researchers from Sucuri reveal the details of a massive DDoS attack against an unnamed jewelry shop carried out by leveraging a network of 25,000 compromised CCTV boxes.
Unnamed Ukrainian bank
June 25, 2016
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
Another hack carried on via the SWIFT messaging system: this time hackers have stolen $10 million from an unnamed Ukrainian bank, according to an ISACA report.
Official website of Rep. Richard Neal
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
More than a dozen House Democrats' official websites are taken down, after Democrats ended an overnight sit-in to press for a vote on gun control legislation. The outage is affecting the congressional sites of Reps. Earl Blumenauer, John Carney, Rosa DeLauro, Lloyd Doggett, Tammy Duckworth, Donna Edwards, Sam Farr, Tulsi Gabbard, Alan Grayson, Marcy Kaptur, William Keating, John Larson, Jim McDermott, Richard Neal, Ed Perlmutter, Jackie Speier and Filemon Vela.
GoToMyPC
June 18, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
GoToMyPC the remote access software service is hit by hackers conducting a "very sophisticated password attack". The company initiates password resets for all users.
DeRay Mckesson's Twitter Account (@deray)
June 10, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Black Lives Matter activist and politician DeRay Mckesson has his Twitter account hacked.
Castorama
June 8, 2016
•[ hack, xss, retail ]
French DIY goods store Castorama pull its website offline after unknown attackers manipulated the site search function to suggest rude versions of household appliances.
VK
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Russian social networking site VK.com appears to have been breached in 2012 with hackers selling some 100 million records for a mere US$580 in Bitcoins.
London Stock Exchange (LSE)
June 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Hackers affiliated to the Anonymous collective claim to have taken down the London Stock Exchange in the name of OpIcarus.
CNN
June 1, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Members of the Ghost Squad Hackers team, one of Anonymous' former subdivisions, take down the email servers of CNN and FOX News as part of a new hacktivism campaign dubbed OpSilence.
Zameen
May 28, 2016
•[ hack, leak ]
A Bangladeshi hacker going with the handle of Tiger Mate hacks and defaces one of Pakistan's largest real estate websites Zameen.com. The hacker also leaks the site's entire database online.
Twitter
June 7, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The same hacker who had links to the recent MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr data breaches, claims to have obtained a database from Twitter, which includes email addresses (and sometimes two per person), usernames, and plain-text passwords. Tessa88 is selling the cache for 10 bitcoins, or about $5,820 at the time of writing.
Sh0ping[.]su
June 5, 2016
•[ hack, retail ]
Sh0ping[.]su, a platform known for selling stolen accounts on the dark market is hacked. The attackers leak 16,000 stolen accounts, 15,000 accounts taken from other sites, and 9,000 credit cards.
National Oil Corporation of Kenya
May 30, 2016
•[ hack, energy ]
World Hacker team hacks the National Oil Corporation of Kenya and posted a link online containing the database dump.
Reddit
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A surge in account hijacking and takeovers forces Reddit to reset 100,000 passwords.
MySpace
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker hiding behind the email address Tessa88@exploit.im publishes a database containing 360 million records belonging to MySpace. The database is the alleged result of a breach that occurred in 2013.
NS1
May 25, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Unknown attackers have been directing an ever-changing army of bots in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against NS1, a major DNS and traffic management provider.
