Racingpulse
January 21, 2017
•[ ransomware, hack, malware ]
A popular horse racing website (Racingpulse.in) is hacked with ransomware.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
January 13, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
A doctor's practice plan affiliated with the University of Maryland School of Medicine notifies patients that somebody hacked the account of a physician assistant's email account that contained the personal information of patients. 1500 patients are affected.
123-Reg
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
123-Reg is the target of a DDoS attack which disrupted the company's services only days into 2017.
University of Alberta
January 5, 2017
•[ hack, malware, education ]
The University of Alberta discloses the details of a malware attack, occurring late last year, that involved 300 computers and put over 3,000 students at risk.
Turkish Energy Ministry
December 31, 2016
•[ hack, energy ]
Sources from the Energy Ministry claim that a major cyber-attack is the source of the widespread electricity cuts across Istanbul.
Bilderberg Group
December 30, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The official website of the Bilderberg Group was compromised today, with attackers posting a message warning that future hacks would be possible unless members start working for the benefit of humanity.
Democratic National Committee
December 29, 2016
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reval the details of "Grizzly Steppe", the operation through which two alleged Russian APTs (APT28 and APT29) hacked the Democratic National Committee since Summer 2015.
ExtraTorrent
December 28, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
ExtraTorrent, one of the largest torrent sites on the internet suffered several major DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks over the past few days primarily because the site recently banned 'unofficial' proxy services.
DRI Title & Escrow
December 28, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
The Dark Overlord claims to have hacked DRI Title & Escrow and leaks some internal data.
Official Sony Music Global Twitter Account (@SonyMusicGlobal)
December 26, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
OurMine hack the Official Sony Music Global Twitter account (@SonyMusicGlobal) and Britney Spears joined the ranks of celebrities who have briefly died on the internet.
Unknown Organization
December 22, 2016
•[ hack, sqlinjection, government ]
Kapustkiy hacks the Costa Rica Embassy in China (costaricaembassycn.com) and dumps 50 of the 280 login credentials.
Unknown Organization
December 19, 2016
•[ hack, leak, education ]
Cryptolulz666 hacks the database of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, the second of the country and leaks a part of the 12,000 users.
Los Angeles County
December 18, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Kelvin Onaghinor, a Nigerian national is charged in connection with a hack of Los Angeles County emails that might have exposed personal data from more than 750,000 people who had business with county departments.
Summit Reinsurance Services Inc.
December 16, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Personal Information of about 1000 Black Hawk College employees and their dependents could have been compromised in a hack of Summit Reinsurance Services Inc., a former insurance provider's server.
Russian Federation Drug Control Service
December 16, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Cryptolulz666 was just testing his own botnet, then later he targeted the website of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service liquidation commission. The Russian website was down for several hours.
Undisclosed Ukrainian banks
December 15, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
ESET reports that BlackEnergy, the same group who targeted Ukrainian utilities last December has been using the TeleBots malware against Ukrainian banks in the last month.
Vijay Mallya
December 9, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya's Twitter account appears to have been hacked. The alleged hackers hijack Mallya's account and are currently leaking the industrialist's personal and sensitive information.
Kagoya
December 8, 2016
•[ financial, hack, technology ]
Kagoya, a famous hosting service provider in Japan suffers a security breach in which the personal and financial data of its customers is stolen. In an email to their customers, Kagoya states that the attack affected about 50,000 customers who used their credit cards between April 1, 2015 and September 21, 2016.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
December 6, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School reveals that a database containing Social Security numbers and name pairs od 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-'06 was hacked last month.
Laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal
January 17, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Korea Times reveals the details of an attempt made by oversea attackers to hack into a laptop belonging to the special investigation team probing President Park Geun-hye's political scandal.
