vDoS
September 8, 2016
•[ hack, leak, ddos ]
vDos, a "booter" service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 DDoS attacks is massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets.
Twitter
September 3, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A group of hackers dubbed Spain Squad claims to have found a way to seize inactive and suspended Twitter accounts, and sells them on the social network.
manaliveinc
August 24, 2016
•[ hack, healthcare ]
The non-profit organization Man Alive is hacked, and a patient database with sensitive personal and treatment information is put up for sale on the dark web.
Unknown Organization
August 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Millions of Australian citizens hoping to take part in the country's first ever digital census are left frustrated after the website used to complete the survey is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Post Office
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office customers have had their internet access cut by an attack targeting certain types of internet routers.
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Transportation
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
An Iranian threat actor used malware known as Shamoon 2.0 to compromise and destroy computers at the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia.
Channel 2
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Two main news channels in Israel were hacked and the attackers broadcasted a 30-second clip showing images of Muslim holy sites and Quranic scriptures.
Rahul Gandhi Twitter account
November 30, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Twitter account of Rahul Gandhi, the heir of the Indian National Congress Party, India's oldest political party, is hacked.
The High Commission of Ghana
November 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy breaches the websites of the High Commission of Ghana and the High Commission of Fiji.
Mailchimp
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Hackers compromise the Mailchimp database and manage to send out emails containing malicious links to subscribers of various different companies.
Instituto de la Funcion Registral del Estado Mexico (IFREM)
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Gh0s7 hacks the Instituto de la Funcion Registral del Estado Mexico (IFREM) and dumps the entire database.
Ask
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
An unknown attacker hijacks the update mechanism employed by Ask Partner Network (APN) to download suspicious code onto unsuspecting users' PCs.
Casino Rama Resort
November 10, 2016
•[ hack, malware ]
Casino Rama Resort issues a warning to its customers and employees after a hacker claimed to have stolen over a decades' (from 2004 to 2016) worth of sensitive information from its computer networks " including payroll data and social insurance numbers.
Bank of Moscow
November 8, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
A hacker called vimproducts claims to have taken down several Russian banks including the Moscow Exchange, the Bank of Moscow, Rosbank, and Alfa-Bank.
Paraguay Embassy in Taiwan
November 6, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Paraguay Embassy in Taiwan.
Indian Embassy - Mali
November 6, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kupustkiy hacks Indian Embassy websites across seven countries.
Pace University
November 2, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
An Arizona man is arrested on charges that he hacked into over 1,000 email accounts for students and others at two universities, including Pace University in New York, and tried to do the same at 75 other higher-education institutions.
PageGroup
November 1, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
UK-based global recruitment firm PageGroup confirms that an alleged lone hacker broke into its network and illegally accessed job applicants' personal information. The data breach occurred when the hacker infiltrated a development server run by Capgemini.
StarHub
October 24, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A new DDoS attack hits the infrastructure of StarHub.
RTFB
October 24, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Syrian Cyber Army claims responsibility for DDoS attacks against several Belgian media news outlets including De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, Gazet van Antwerpen, Het Belang van Limburg, and RTFB.
