Komisyon sa Wikang Pilipino
July 12, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the same day the permanent court at The Hague rules for Philippines in the dispute against China for the islands in the West Philippine Sea, 68 Philippines government websites are taken down by a DDoS attack. One of the victims is the Komisyon sa Wikang Pilipino (the official regulating body of the Filipino language).
Unknown Organization
July 11, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In the name of OpAfrica, hackers affiliated to the Anonymous collective hack Armscor, a Pretoria based arms procurement agency, and leak 63 MB data in HTML files that include invoices numbers, order numbers, invoice amount and other data from Airbus, Thales group, Rolls Royce, EADS (European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company), and Denel.
Datadog
July 8, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Datadog, the software-as-a-service monitoring and analytics platform, is hit by hackers and strongly suggests that customers initiate password resets.
Unknown Organization
July 7, 2016
•[ hack, leak, government ]
In retaliation for the Alton Sterling killing, a hacker called @0x2Taylor hacks the Baton Rouge city government's servers and leaks 50,000 Baton Rouge Police records.
Netia
July 7, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
A Ukrainian hacker going by the handle of Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) breaches the servers of Poland's telecom company Netia SA and leak a 14GB file containing customers' details.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
