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.
WatchMojo YouTube channel
June 25, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp deface two YouTube Popular Channels: WatchMojo and Redmercy.
Official website of Rep. Richard Neal
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
More than a dozen House Democrats' official websites are taken down, after Democrats ended an overnight sit-in to press for a vote on gun control legislation. The outage is affecting the congressional sites of Reps. Earl Blumenauer, John Carney, Rosa DeLauro, Lloyd Doggett, Tammy Duckworth, Donna Edwards, Sam Farr, Tulsi Gabbard, Alan Grayson, Marcy Kaptur, William Keating, John Larson, Jim McDermott, Richard Neal, Ed Perlmutter, Jackie Speier and Filemon Vela.
Carbonite
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Online backup service Carbonite forces users to pick new passwords in the wake of discovering that it was under a large-scale account takeover attack.
Unknown Organization
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Hackers hit the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Schools Classics Project website, exposing the email addresses and cleartext passwords of over 1,500 students and employees.
Unknown Organization
June 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous Legion claims responsibility for taking down the Minnesota Judicial Branch's website (mncourts.gov).
The DAO
June 21, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Unknown attackers attack the DAO foundation and steal more than 3.6 million Ethereum (whose value is between $45 and $77 million).
Unknown Organization
June 20, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net experiences an outage, leaving players unable to log in to popular games such as Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft due to an alleged DDoS attack. Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for the latest atttack.
HLTV
June 19, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In June 2016, the "home of competitive Counter Strike" website HLTV was hacked and 611k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of names, usernames, email addresses and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
GoToMyPC
June 18, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
GoToMyPC the remote access software service is hit by hackers conducting a "very sophisticated password attack". The company initiates password resets for all users.
Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website
June 17, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
The Union of Hacktivists defaces the Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website.
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS Global)
June 15, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
1x0123, the same hacker who previously claimed to have hacked PornHub, claims to have hacked the client portal of Fidelity National Information Services.
Acer
June 15, 2016
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
Acer informs the California attorney general that its online store was attacked by hackers. An unauthorized outside party has taken a year's worth of full credit card data, names and addresses between mid-May 2015 and late-April this year.
GitHub
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Someone using what appears to have been a list of e-mail addresses and passwords obtained from the breach of "other online services" makes a massive number of login attempts to GitHub's repository service.
Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Anonymous Africa takes down the websites of EFF and ZANU-PF, two black nationalist political parties in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD)
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD) posts a notice for a suspected security breach related to the on-line purchase of licenses and tags from the Department.
iMesh
June 13, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
51 million user accounts for iMesh, a now defunct file sharing service, are put on sale on the dark web.
Petra News Agency
June 12, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Jordan's official state news agency has claimed a hacker is responsible for breaching its computer system to insert false comments into a story describing how Saudi Arabia royalty funded 20% of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
