WikiLeaks
July 6, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Because of a spat with the Anonymous, OurMine take down the Wikileaks website.
Zimbabwean government official website (zim.gov.zw)
July 6, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In name of #ZimShutDown2016 or #ShutDownZimbabwe, the Anonymous take down the websites of the country's official portal (zim.gov.zw), Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (zbc.co.zw), and the website of the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF).
LeafyIsHere YouTube Channel
July 4, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp hacks LeafyIsHere, a popular YouTube Channel with over 3 million subscribers and defaces the main page.
Mac Forums
July 3, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2016, the self-proclaimed "Ultimate Source For Your Mac" website Mac Forums suffered a data breach. The vBulletin-based system exposed over 326k usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was later discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum. Mac Forums did not respond when contacted about the incident via their contact us form.
topcon
July 1, 2016
•[ hack ]
An anonymous hacker dumps the database of topcon.com, containing 21,000 records, on the Dark Web.
Unknown Organization
July 1, 2016
•[ hack, retail ]
DID Electrical reveals that more than 300 people have had card details stolen after an online security breach. The attack happened between June 15 and June 26.
Three unnamed hospitals
July 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
TrapX releases a new report revealing the details of three new attacks related to Medjack, an attack that relies on exploiting existing medical devices that run outdated software in order to enter the secure network of a healthcare unit.
CrackingForum
July 1, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid-2016, the cracking community forum known as CrackingForum suffered a data breach. The vBulletin based forum exposed 660k email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes.
OnRPG
July 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In July 2016, the now defunct free online games list website OnRPG suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The incident exposed just over 1M email and IP addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
University of Regina
June 30, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Three University of Regina computers are hacked. Names, student and employee numbers, as well as social insurance numbers, may have been accessed.
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas
June 29, 2016
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas notifies guests of "certain restaurant and retail outlets" located at its Las Vegas casino that hackers breached payments systems extracting credit card data.
Lilly Singh's YouTube Channel
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp defaces another popular YouTube Channel: Lilly Singh.
Twitter account of Brendan Iribe, CEO of virtual reality company Oculus
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Brendan Iribe, CEO of Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus, is the latest victim of the trail of Twitter accounts hjiacks.
Washington County Community Development Agency
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Washington County Community Development Agency warns that an unauthorized third party hacked into one of the agency's servers earlier this month, potentially exposing certain community members and employees' personal information.
Multiple healthcare databases
June 28, 2016
•[ hack, leak, healthcare ]
Here we are again, this time TheDarkOverlord claims to have broken into multiple healthcare databases across America and lists a fresh trove of 9.2 million records on a Dark Web-based marketplace for 750 bitcoin ( 368,000).
StreetEasy
June 28, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately June 2016, the real estate website StreetEasy suffered a data breach. In total, 988k unique email addresses were included in the breach alongside names, usernames and SHA-1 hashes of passwords, all of which appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace in February 2019. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
Unnamed jewelry shop
June 27, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, retail ]
Researchers from Sucuri reveal the details of a massive DDoS attack against an unnamed jewelry shop carried out by leveraging a network of 25,000 compromised CCTV boxes.
Whitepages
June 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2016, the telephone and address directory service Whitepages was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included over 11 million unique email addresses alongside names and passwords stored as either a SHA-1 or bcrypt hash. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
South Yorkshire Police
June 26, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Two Albanian hackers deface the South Yorkshire Police website.
Unnamed Ukrainian bank
June 25, 2016
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
Another hack carried on via the SWIFT messaging system: this time hackers have stolen $10 million from an unnamed Ukrainian bank, according to an ISACA report.
