Unknown Organization
September 18, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are knocked offline by yet another denial-of-service (DDoS) attack claimed by hacking group PoodleCorp.
Unknown Organization
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Popular science website EurekAlert!, which handles embargoed reports on health, medicine, and technology is hacked. The announcement in the website states that usernames and passwords to the service have been compromised. The hacker has also leaked two embargoed reports.
Unknown Organization
September 7, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Servers belonging to the Project on Crowdsourced Imagery Analysis (PCIA), hosting data about nuclear tests, have been the subject of DDoS attacks just two days before North Korea's most recent nuclear tests.
Linode
September 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Linode reports the first of a series of DoS attacks on September 2nd, September 4th and September 5th. Another round will strike the company on Saturday, September 10th. Some of the attacks lasted up to eight hours.
Armenian National Security Service
September 2, 2016
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Azerbaijani hacktivists from Anti-Armenia Team leak the passport details of foreign visitors to Armenia and more after breaking into Armenian government servers.
Deutsche Telekom
November 29, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers are knocked off the internet when their routers are hit by a malware attack launched through the Mirai Botnet exploiting a SOAP Remote Execution Vulnerability.
Japanese Defence Ministry
November 28, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kyodo News reveals that the network of the Japanese Defence Ministry was the target of a cyber-attack in September this year.
careers.kna.kw (official website of the Kuwaiti parliament)
November 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The official website of the Kuwaiti parliament is defaced by hackers on their parliamentary election day. The hackers deface the main page leaving a message in Arabic accusing Abdul Hamid Dashti, a member of parliament (MP) of being an Iranian agent and urged other MPs to unite against him.
Vascular Surgical Associates
November 24, 2016
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Vascular Surgical Associates notifies patients of a hack discovered in September when a compromised vendor password was used to access an internal computer.
Madison Square Garden
November 22, 2016
•[ hack, financial, retail ]
Madison Square Garden Co. admits that hackers may have stolen payment card data at Madison Square Garden, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Beacon Theatre and The Chicago Theatre from Nov. 9, 2015 to Oct. 24, 2016.
Eastern Indian Regional Council
November 20, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy breaks into the Eastern Indian Regional Council and accesses the data of 17,000 students.
Mega
November 18, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
The Amn3s1a Team hacking group releases a data dump containing what the group claims is nearly 2GB of source code stolen from several Mega.nz servers.
Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest account
November 17, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
OurMine hack Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest Account and post a message suggesting they could help him with his online security.
Unknown Organization
November 17, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The Canadian army's public recruitment website (forces.ca) is hacked and briefly redirects visitors to the official website of the Chinese government.
Windham County Sheriff's Office
November 12, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
CyberZeist announces that the Windham County Sheriff's Office has been hacked, and dumps the entire database with 300 records of personnel.
Business Insider
November 2, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
The collective called OurMine post and edited some stories on the US version of the website.
The Clinton Foundation
October 6, 2016
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
The Clinton Foundation warns donors about targeted hacking attempts to steal their personal information.
Peachthree Orthopedic Clinic
September 22, 2016
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Peachthree Orthopedic Clinic warns its users to have been hacked on September 22, even if some evidences suggests the hack could have happened several months earlier.
KrebsOnSecurity
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Security researcher Brian Krebs' website KrebsOnSecurity comes under "heavy and sustainable" attack after two 18 year-old Israeli hackers were arrested over their connection with a DDoS-for-hire service called vDOS.
Unknown Organization
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Turkish hackers have launched DoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks against the web servers of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB).
