The Young Illustrator Award site administered by Meridian Secondary School
August 29, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The Young Illustrator Award site administered by Meridian Secondary School is taken down after being hacked.
Real Madrid Twitter Account
August 28, 2017
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Real Madrid's official Twitter account is hacked with a post announcing the signing of rival Lionel Messi appearing on their feed.
Unnamed Bitcoin exchange in South Korea
August 24, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, finance ]
The CWIC Cyber Warfare Research Center in South Korea reveals that a domestic exchange for bitcoin has been the target of an attempted hacking. Suspects are directed to North Korea.
Official PlayStation Twitter account
August 21, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
The official Twitter and Facebook PlayStation accounts are taken over by the hacking group OurMine. The attackers also claim to have managed to access a PSN database.
"Girls" Twitter account
August 17, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Several HBO Twitter accounts are taken over by the notorious OurMine hacking group, posting #HBOHacked messages and warnings about security. Affected accounts include the main HBO Twitter account, as well as those for TV shows including Game of Thrones and Girls.
Official website of Charlottesville
August 12, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous claim responsibility for carrying out a DDoS attack on the official website of Charlottesville city Virginia. The attack is conducted under the banner of #OpDomesticTerrorism.
Chinese Telecom Firm
August 1, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Kaspersky Lab Q2 2017 DDoS Intelligence Report reveals the details of a DDoS attack launched against a Chinese Telecom Firm, lasting for 11 days.
Big Screen in Cardiff's Queen Street
August 1, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
A big screen in Cardiff's main shopping street, Queen Street, is reportedly hacked with images of swastikas and messages about 'Shariah' appearing.
WikiLeaks
August 31, 2017
•[ hack ]
WikiLeaks' website appears to have been hacked by the OurMine collective.
CeX
August 29, 2017
•[ hack, retail ]
Second-hand electronics dealership CeX notifies 2 million customers that their personal information may have been compromised by hackers.
Zazzle
August 28, 2017
•[ hack, brute-force, retail ]
Zazzle sends an email to customers revealing that hackers in June used brute-force techniques to cycle through account usernames and passwords that were stolen from a breach of another unnamed site.
National Health Service
August 18, 2017
•[ hack, healthcare ]
A member of the Anonymous hacking collective claims to have stolen data belonging to 1.2 million patients of the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). The breach affected SwiftQueue, a software provider of dashboard and metrics solutions to healthcare providers.
Development Foundation of Armenia
August 7, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
Turkish hackers continue to target Armenian websites. The list of the targets involved in the latest spree of attacks includes the official website of the Development Foundation of Armenia and the official website of the Civil Service Council of Armenia.
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL)
July 31, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The author of the BrickerBot malware claims responsibility for a cyber-attack that took place in various Indian states and causes over 60,000 modems and routers to lose Internet connectivity.
Wix
July 31, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Website-building service Wix.com reveals to have been the subject of a massive cyber-attack in April 2016 when a botnet of rogue Chrome extensions was creating Wix websites to spread itself to new users.
UniCredit
July 26, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
UniCredit SpA, Italy's No. 1 bank, says that hackers took biographical and loan data from 400,000 client accounts. The attack occurred in September and October of 2016 and June and July of this year.
Kansas Department of Commerce
July 20, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
A security breach in the Kansas Department of Commerce exposes millions of Social Security numbers from people across 10 states to hackers. Many other accounts are also attacked.
South Carolina's Voter Registration System
July 16, 2017
•[ hack, government ]
According to a post-election report by the South Carolina State Election Commission, South Carolina's voter registration system was reportedly hit by almost 150,000 hack attempts on Election Day 2016.
Victoria Justice's Twitter account
July 26, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
Victoria Justice's Twitter account is hacked. The attacker claims to reveal nude pictures.
Square Enix
July 14, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Square Enix attributes the connectivity issues that have plagued Final Fantasy 14's Stormblood expansion since its release in June on continuous distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks from a third party.
