Rahul Gandhi Twitter account
November 30, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Twitter account of Rahul Gandhi, the heir of the Indian National Congress Party, India's oldest political party, is hacked.
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.
European Commission
November 29, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The European Commission (EC) is the target of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) that leads to a breakdown in internet services for hours.
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.
xHamster
November 28, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In November 2016, news broke that hackers were trading hundreds of thousands of xHamster porn account details. In total, the data contained almost 380k unique user records including email addresses, usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
The High Commission of Ghana
November 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Kapustkiy breaches the websites of the High Commission of Ghana and the High Commission of Fiji.
Quest Diagnostics
November 26, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
Quest Diagnostics says it is investigating a recent hack that exposed the personal health information of about 34,000 people. An "unauthorized third party" gained access to names, dates of birth, lab results and, in some cases, telephone numbers on Nov. 26 through a mobile health app that gives patients access to lab results and other information.
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.
Ask
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
An unknown attacker hijacks the update mechanism employed by Ask Partner Network (APN) to download suspicious code onto unsuspecting users' PCs.
Instituto de la Funcion Registral del Estado Mexico (IFREM)
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Gh0s7 hacks the Instituto de la Funcion Registral del Estado Mexico (IFREM) and dumps the entire database.
Mailchimp
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Hackers compromise the Mailchimp database and manage to send out emails containing malicious links to subscribers of various different companies.
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.
Three Mobile
November 18, 2016
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Three Mobile admits that hackers have successfully accessed its customer upgrade database after using an employee login. 6 million customers' private information is at risk.
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.
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.
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.
Gorilla Glue
November 17, 2016
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
The Dark Overlord claims to have stolen a wealth of company and personal information (500Gb) from US adhesive, glue, and tape company Gorilla Glue.
CashCrate
November 17, 2016
•[ hack, md5 ]
In June 2017, news broke that CashCrate had suffered a data breach exposing 6.8 million records. The breach of the cash-for-surveys site dated back to November 2016 and exposed names, physical addresses, email addresses and passwords stored in plain text for older accounts along with weak MD5 hashes for newer ones.
