UK Network Rail
July 12, 2016
•[ hack ]
Security firm DarkTrace reveals that four major cyberattacks have been reported on UK railway computer networks over the past year.
HSBC
July 12, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Hacker group OurMine, claims that it temporarily took down the servers of HSBC in the US and the UK.
Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
July 12, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the same day the permanent court at The Hague rules for Philippines in the dispute against China for the islands in the West Philippine Sea, 68 Philippines government websites are taken down by a DDoS attack.
Unknown Organization
July 11, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In the name of OpAfrica, hackers affiliated to the Anonymous collective hack Armscor, a Pretoria based arms procurement agency, and leak 63 MB data in HTML files that include invoices numbers, order numbers, invoice amount and other data from Airbus, Thales group, Rolls Royce, EADS (European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company), and Denel.
topcon
July 1, 2016
•[ hack ]
An anonymous hacker dumps the database of topcon.com, containing 21,000 records, on the Dark Web.
Twitter account of Brendan Iribe, CEO of virtual reality company Oculus
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Brendan Iribe, CEO of Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus, is the latest victim of the trail of Twitter accounts hjiacks.
Lilly Singh's YouTube Channel
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp defaces another popular YouTube Channel: Lilly Singh.
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas
June 29, 2016
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas notifies guests of "certain restaurant and retail outlets" located at its Las Vegas casino that hackers breached payments systems extracting credit card data.
WatchMojo YouTube channel
June 25, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp deface two YouTube Popular Channels: WatchMojo and Redmercy.
Unknown Organization
June 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous Legion claims responsibility for taking down the Minnesota Judicial Branch's website (mncourts.gov).
Unknown Organization
June 20, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net experiences an outage, leaving players unable to log in to popular games such as Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft due to an alleged DDoS attack. Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for the latest atttack.
iMesh
June 13, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
51 million user accounts for iMesh, a now defunct file sharing service, are put on sale on the dark web.
Unknown Organization
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Hackers hit the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Schools Classics Project website, exposing the email addresses and cleartext passwords of over 1,500 students and employees.
Acer
June 15, 2016
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
Acer informs the California attorney general that its online store was attacked by hackers. An unauthorized outside party has taken a year's worth of full credit card data, names and addresses between mid-May 2015 and late-April this year.
Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD)
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD) posts a notice for a suspected security breach related to the on-line purchase of licenses and tags from the Department.
Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous Africa takes down the websites of EFF and ZANU-PF, two black nationalist political parties in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
South Yorkshire Police
June 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Two Albanian hackers deface the South Yorkshire Police website.
Carbonite
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Online backup service Carbonite forces users to pick new passwords in the wake of discovering that it was under a large-scale account takeover attack.
The DAO
June 21, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Unknown attackers attack the DAO foundation and steal more than 3.6 million Ethereum (whose value is between $45 and $77 million).
Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website
June 17, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
The Union of Hacktivists defaces the Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website.
