Unknown Organization
June 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
As part of the same operations, the Anonymous take down the Romania Stock Exchange (sibex.ro).
Unknown government-linked Louisiana database
June 9, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker under the pseudonym NSA puts on sale on the dark web a database that purports to hold over a quarter of a million driver licence records compromised from a government-linked databases in Louisiana, United States.
Castorama
June 8, 2016
•[ hack, xss, retail ]
French DIY goods store Castorama pull its website offline after unknown attackers manipulated the site search function to suggest rude versions of household appliances.
Twitter
June 7, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The same hacker who had links to the recent MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr data breaches, claims to have obtained a database from Twitter, which includes email addresses (and sometimes two per person), usernames, and plain-text passwords. Tessa88 is selling the cache for 10 bitcoins, or about $5,820 at the time of writing.
Drake's Twitter account (@Drake)
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Drake's Twitter account was taken over by an account called @2aiden3.
Kylie Jenner's Twitter account (@KylieJenner)
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Kylie Jenner is the latest celebrity to have her Twitter account hacked.
VK
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Russian social networking site VK.com appears to have been breached in 2012 with hackers selling some 100 million records for a mere US$580 in Bitcoins.
Sh0ping[.]su
June 5, 2016
•[ hack, retail ]
Sh0ping[.]su, a platform known for selling stolen accounts on the dark market is hacked. The attackers leak 16,000 stolen accounts, 15,000 accounts taken from other sites, and 9,000 credit cards.
BitGo
June 4, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
A massive DDoS attack hits BitGo, a service that describes itself as the most secure Bitcoin wallet solution available today.
TeamViewer
June 4, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Users of the remote login service TeamViewer report their computers have been ransacked by attackers who somehow gained access to their accounts.
Facepunch
June 3, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In June 2016, the game development studio Facepunch suffered a data breach that exposed 343k users. The breached data included usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes. Facepunch advised they were aware of the incident and had notified people at the time. The data was provided to HIBP by whitehat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
London Stock Exchange (LSE)
June 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Hackers affiliated to the Anonymous collective claim to have taken down the London Stock Exchange in the name of OpIcarus.
Several Road Signs in the US
June 1, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A number of road signs in the US fall victim to a politically-motivated 'hack' attack after being altered to show messages relating to presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
FOX News
June 1, 2016
•[ hack, hacktivism, information ]
Members of the Ghost Squad Hackers team, one of Anonymous' former subdivisions, take down CNN and FOX News as part of a new hacktivism campaign dubbed OpSilence.
CNN
June 1, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Members of the Ghost Squad Hackers team, one of Anonymous' former subdivisions, take down the email servers of CNN and FOX News as part of a new hacktivism campaign dubbed OpSilence.
National Oil Corporation of Kenya
May 30, 2016
•[ hack, energy ]
World Hacker team hacks the National Oil Corporation of Kenya and posted a link online containing the database dump.
Transport for NSW
May 29, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, transportation ]
Transport for NSW says it is investigating a "compromise" of the TrainLink website's reservations system, which is since then shut down. The company states that no personal data or credit card has been compromised.
Zameen
May 28, 2016
•[ hack, leak ]
A Bangladeshi hacker going with the handle of Tiger Mate hacks and defaces one of Pakistan's largest real estate websites Zameen.com. The hacker also leaks the site's entire database online.
Fiverr
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Fiverr suffers a six-hour DDoS attack after removing DDoS-for-Hire listings.
MySpace
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker hiding behind the email address Tessa88@exploit.im publishes a database containing 360 million records belonging to MySpace. The database is the alleged result of a breach that occurred in 2013.
