Hanjin Heavy Industries
May 11, 2016
•[ espionage, hack, manufacturing ]
South Korea points the finger to North Korea after Hanjin Heavy Industries, a navy defence contractor, is hacked.
Medical Colleagues of Texas
May 11, 2016
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Hackers breach the computer network of a doctors' group in Katy, potentially accessing more than 60,000 medical records and personnel files.
Unknown Organization
May 10, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The Utkal University portal is taken down after it is defaced.
Kiddicare
May 9, 2016
•[ hack, retail ]
Babycare retailer Kiddicare has warned customers that personal data consisting of 795,000 records shared with the store has been stolen by hackers.
PerezHilton
May 9, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Cyphort Labs reveal the details of a malvertising campaign targeting PerezHilton.com
Rosebutt Board
May 9, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Some time prior to May 2016, the forum known as "Rosebutt Board" was hacked and 107k accounts were exposed. The self-described "top one board for anal fisting, prolapse, huge insertions and rosebutt fans" had email and IP addresses, usernames and weakly stored salted MD5 password hashes hacked from the IP.Board based forum.
51Degrees
May 8, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Mobile device detection company 51Degrees reveals to have been hacked.
National Bank of Panama
May 7, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
OpIcarus continues and the Anonymous take down other banks across the world, including: The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, the Central Bank of Maldives, the Dutch Central Bank, the National Bank of Panama, the Central Bank of Kenya, the Central Bank of Mexico, and the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Guernsey Financial Services Commission
May 6, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
OpIcarus continues and the Anonymous take down other banks across the world, including: The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, the Central Bank of Maldives, the Dutch Central Bank, the National Bank of Panama, the Central Bank of Kenya, the Central Bank of Mexico, and the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Fling
May 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker called Peace claims to be selling tens of millions of user accounts for adult dating site Fling.com on the dark web, including information on sexual desires, preferences, and other personal details.
Nulled.cr
May 6, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In May 2016, the cracking community forum known as Nulled.cr was hacked and 599k user accounts were leaked publicly. The compromised data included email and IP addresses, weak salted MD5 password hashes and hundreds of thousands of private messages between members.
Bay Area Children's Association
May 5, 2016
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Bay Area Children's Association reports that an attacker compromised patient information after planting malware on the systems of its electronic medical record provider.
Neopets
May 5, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Tens of millions of user accounts from virtual pets community Neopets are hacked and traded on the criminal underground.
Central Bank of Cyprus
May 5, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
OpIcarus continues and this time the hacktivists of the Anonymous collective take down the Central Bank of Cyprus (centralbank.gov.cy)
Bank of Greece
May 3, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The Anonymous Kick off OpIcarus and take down the Bank of Greece.
Black Lives Matter
April 30, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Ghost Squad, one of the Anonymous subdivisions carrying out DDoS attacks against KKK members, launch similar attacks against the Black Lives Matter movement.
17 (an app particularly popular in Asia)
April 29, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A hacker advertises a cache of 20,000 email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app '17', which is particularly popular in Asia.
Laremy Tunsil Twitter account
April 29, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Laremy Tunsil, a college football player has his Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked.
Lifeboat Minecraft Community
April 26, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Over seven million user accounts belonging to members of Minecraft community "Lifeboat" are hacked.
RWE Gundremmingen plant
April 26, 2016
•[ hack, malware, energy ]
A nuclear power plant in Germany is found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet.
