StarHub
October 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Singapore telecommunications company StarHub is the target of a DDoS attack (once again carried on flooding the company with bogus DNS queries).
floridabar
September 22, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker or hackers associated with a former Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputy who has a long-standing dispute with Florida law enforcement that appears to have gotten him raided by the FBI managed to access and acquire what appears to be the Florida Bar Association's entire database.
H&L Australia
September 20, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers claim to have hacked Australian point-of-sale technology (PoS) company H&L Australia, and offer the database for sale. They were already offering it for sale for AU$22,000 ($16,580, 12,723) more than two months ago.
American Muslim Leadership Council
September 17, 2016
•[ hack ]
A hacker going by the name MuslimLeets (aka Muj4hida) defaces the American Human Rights Council (AHRC) and 62 other websites, leaving a message calling for jihad.
VoIPTalk
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Telephony provider VolPtalk may have been hit by hackers. The firm discreetly informs customers about a potential data breach and request to reset their passwords as a precautionary measure.
Variety
September 3, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Entertainment news site Variety is briefly taken over by the infamous hacker group OurMine. The hacking collective manages to break into Variety's content management system and defaces the site with a post of their own claiming responsibility for the attack.
Lightspeed
September 2, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Point of sales vendor Lightspeed is breached with password, customer data, and API keys possibly exposed, and notifies customers in an email saying that the information was contained in a compromised database.
Transmission BitTorrent Client
September 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Developers of the Transmission BitTorrent client admitted that hackers replaced downloads of its file-sharing software with trojanized code. The hack, detected within hours, was designed to spread a Mac OS X backdoor, Kidnap, which steals user credentials.
Last
September 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
More than 43 million of user records from UK-based music streaming service Last.fm surfaced from a hack that occurred in 2012. Each record reportedly contains a username, email address, hashed password and profile data.
arg.gov.af
September 1, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivist group Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) defaced 12 websites belonging to the Afghan government.
LinkedIn
August 11, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A new lawsuit reveals that data thieves used a massive botnet against LinkedIn to steal members' personal information via information scraping by fake profiles.
Anderson County
August 10, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Anderson County government officials and the sheriff's office investigate a possible computer security breach (a "potential system-wide breach" of the main courthouse server) involving 1,800 people.
An Garda (Irish Police)
August 4, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Police in Ireland launch a probe after a hacker attempted to break into their computer network, forcing officials to temporarily shut down several of their systems to ensure the security of data held on staff and the public.
Romelu Lukaku's Instagram Account
August 3, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Romelu Lukaku, the Everton footballer is the latest celebrity to have his Instagram account hacked.
Iranian Telegram users
August 2, 2016
•[ espionage, hack, leak ]
Iranian hackers linked to the state sponsored group called Rocket Kitten have compromised more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users.
ubuntuforums
July 14, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Popular Ubuntu Forum ubuntuforums.org is hacked and 2 million user details that includes usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses are stolen.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
July 13, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A report published by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology found that hackers purported to be from China had compromised computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation repeatedly between 2010 and 2013.
Komisyon sa Wikang Pilipino
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. One of the victims is the Komisyon sa Wikang Pilipino (the official regulating body of the Filipino language).
Datadog
July 8, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Datadog, the software-as-a-service monitoring and analytics platform, is hit by hackers and strongly suggests that customers initiate password resets.
University of Regina
June 30, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Three University of Regina computers are hacked. Names, student and employee numbers, as well as social insurance numbers, may have been accessed.
