Gordon Ramsay
June 7, 2017
•[ financial, hack, insider ]
The father-in-law of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is jailed for six months after pleading guilty to attempting to hack into his computer to steal financial information and 'dirty' secrets on the star for the hacking plot to crack into Ramsay's private email.
Road Sign in Houston
May 30, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Someone hacks a road sign in Houston with a message against Donald Trump.
Wooster-Ashland Regional Council of Governments
May 26, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The Wooster-Ashland Regional Council of Governments computer network is hacked and more than 200,000 records in are compromised.
Bell Canada
May 16, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Bell Canada says that 1.9 million customer account details have been stolen by unknown hackers, although no payment card numbers or passwords have been taken.
Cedexis
May 10, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A DDos attack against Cedexis knocks out several major French news websites including Le Monde and Le Figaro.
HandBrake
May 2, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The popular DVD-ripping HandBrake app, is hacked to install a new variant of the Proton malware.
Hill Country Memorial Hospital
April 29, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Hill Country Memorial Hospital notifies patients after an employee email was accessed without authorization.
Greenwood County School District 50
April 29, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
About 3,300 are affected by a security breach after the school discovers that an unauthorized user logged in to four Greenwood County School District 50 employees' emails as well as current and former employees' payroll accounts in January and February.
Melbourne IT
April 12, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Australian ISP Melbourne IT confirms that it was hit by "a large DDoS attack" that disrupted its web hosting.
Gamestop
April 7, 2017
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Video game giant GameStop Corp says it is investigating reports that hackers may have siphoned credit card and customer data from its website gamestop.com.
German Bundeswehr (armed forces)
April 2, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
The head of the German military's new cyber command, Lieutenant General Ludwig Leinhos, reveals that army computers were targeted hundreds of thousands of times in the first nine weeks of 2017.
New York Post
April 1, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
The New York Post issues an apology after its app is hacked in an April Fool's Day prank and sends out a flurry of bizarre news alerts including one that read, "Heil President Donald Trump".
Verifone
March 7, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
Credit and debit card payments giant Verifone investigates a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of companies running its point-of-sale solutions.
Porsche Japan
February 26, 2017
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
The Japanese arm of Porsche says more than 28,000 email addresses have been leaked via a hack.
Ohio state government websites
February 25, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In name of #opUSA, hacktivists from the Anonymous collective take down some Ohio State websites.
Unknown Organization
February 20, 2017
•[ hack, retail ]
A hacker claims to have hacked the official web forum of a gun retailer Airsoft GI (airsoftgiforum.com) and uploaded its data on Dropbox.
Unknown Organization
February 15, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The websites of the Montenegrin government and several state institutions, as well as some pro-government media, are targeted with multiple cyberattacks started since February 15th. Among the victims is the web portal of the Government of Montenegro (www.gov.me).
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited
February 10, 2017
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited is the victim of a targeted attack. The attack is thought to originate from Pakistan.
Union Bank of India
April 11, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
North Korean hackers are suspected of attempting to steal $170m from Union Bank of India, back in 2015.
Amazon third-party sellers
April 10, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, retail ]
Amazon third-party sellers, are hit repeatedly by hackers who post fake deals on legitimate sellers' pages.
