Sirens in Dallas
April 8, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
A computer hack sets off all the emergency sirens in Dallas for about 90 minutes.
University of Louisville
April 7, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
Tax information for dozens of University of Louisville employees is compromised after a hack of the online system the university uses to give employees access to tax documents.
Wishbone App
March 15, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers steal 2.2 million email addresses and 287,000 cellphone numbers from popular teen quiz App Wishbone users, many of whom are young women under the age of 18.
fifthharmony
March 12, 2017
•[ hack ]
A Kurdish hacker going by the online handle of "Rekan Error" defaces the official website of Fifth Harmony, an American girl group formed on the second season of The X Factor US in July 2012 and posts messages against ISIS and Turkey.
Roberts Hawaii
February 26, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
The tour company Roberts Hawaii warns its customers about a security breach that may have affected people who purchased tours and other services on its website between July 2015 and December 2016.
Apple
February 23, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
A mid-2016 security incident led to Apple purging its data centers of servers built by Supermicro, including returning recently purchased systems, after malware-infected firmware was reportedly detected in an internal development environment of Apple's technical infrastructure, which powers its web-based services and holds customer data.
Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA)
February 8, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
15,000 data files of Taiwanese nationals could have been hacked due to an intrusion in the email system.
Six NHS Websites
February 7, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
The Independent reveals that, over the past six weeks, six NHS websites were defaced showing gruesome images of the conflict in Syria with the hashtags: #Op_Russia and #save_aleppo.
Canadian Tire
February 7, 2017
•[ hack, retail ]
Canadian Tire shuts down customer access to online accounts after detecting unusual traffic in their website.
Austrian Parliament
February 7, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Austria's parliament says that a Turkish hackers' group dubbed Aslan Neferler Tim (ANT), or Lion Soldiers Team has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that brought down its website for 20 minutes during the weekend.
North Mundham Primary in Chichester
April 23, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Police are investigating after "malicious" messages are left on a school website by Turkish nationalists in an apparent hacking attempt.
Yapizon
April 22, 2017
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
Yapizon, a South Korean Bitcoin exchange suffers a massive data breach when hackers steal 3,800 Bitcoin (US$5 million) which is 37% of user funds.
Sierra Tel
April 10, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The Bricker Bot takes down the Zyxel HN-51 Modem belonging to Sierra Tel, a Californian ISP.
Defense Integrated Data Center
April 5, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
North Korean hackers have reportedly accessed OPlan 5027, the secretive war-plans drawn up by South Korea and the United States, detailing how the allied military forces would respond to the outbreak of war in the region " including first strike targets and troop deployments.
Unnamed Brazilian bank
April 4, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, finance ]
Kaspersky reveals that on October 2016, a group of hackers rerouted all the traffic of an unnamed Brazilian bank's customers to perfectly reconstructed fakes of the bank's properties.
boaec
March 15, 2017
•[ hack ]
The Anonymous deface the official website of Boa Esporte, a second division football club in the state of Minas Gerais, after the team hired goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes das Dores de Souza convicted for murdering his ex-girlfriend.
Unknown Organization
March 2, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, retail ]
South Korea's Lotte Duty Free website (lottedfs.com) is taken down by a DDoS attack orchestrated from a Chinese IP.
Kennesaw State University
March 1, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of a Kennesaw State University server.
Luxembourg government servers
February 27, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Luxembourg government's servers are hit in a massive DDoS attack that lasts over 24 hours. The attack is believed to have affected over a hundred websites hosted by the government's servers.
St. Mary's Catholic Academy
February 26, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Hackers break into CCTV systems of at least four British schools and stream footage of pupils live on the internet. St. Mary's Catholic Academy and Christ The King Academy Primary School are two fo the victims.
