Spotify
April 25, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials, including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details, appears on Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible hack. The company, asked, denies the incident.
Ku Klux Klan
April 24, 2016
•[ hack, ddos ]
Hackers from Ghost Squad take down the website of Ku Klux Klan.
Unknown Organization
April 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Members of the New World Hackers (NWH), one of Anonymous' divisions, launch a DDoS attack against the city of Denver's website (denvergov.org)
Unknown Organization
April 22, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration ]
United Cyber Caliphate defaces the website of the Lamont Christian Reformed Church in the city leaving a pro-Jihadi message.
UK Ministry of Defence
April 22, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Up to 831 members of Britain's defence community with high-level security clearances had their personally identifying information stolen when the Ministry of Defence's business networking organisation was hacked earlier in November 2015.
Archdiocese of Denver
April 21, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Archdiocese of Denver notifies 18,000 individuals to have discovered a breach happened on November 2015 after an unauthorized person accessed an Archdiocese of Denver database maintained by a third-party.
Ain Shams University
April 19, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker hacks the Staff Management Portal of the Ain Shams University (staff.asu.edu.eg) and dumps 2,280 records.
Reyes & Barsoum L.L.P.
April 19, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
A group of California workers claim in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally broke into their lawyers' database and stole over 32,000 confidential workers comp files.
17
April 19, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2016, customer data obtained from the streaming app known as "17" appeared listed for sale on a Tor hidden service marketplace. The data contained over 4 million unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
Newark Police Department
April 18, 2016
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Newark Police Department is forced to spend four days cleaning up after a virus attack.
mayline
April 18, 2016
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
sn0n hacks mayline.com and dumps 2,803 records with usernames and hashed passwords.
Atique Orthodontics, P.A.
April 15, 2016
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Atique Orthodontics, P.A. (AOPA) notifies certain patients about a security incident involving unauthorized access to a computer in its office.
Janet
April 15, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
British government-funded educational network Janet is hit by a DDoS.
Unknown Organization
April 14, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are taken down by a DDoS attack.
Stamford Podiatry Group
April 14, 2016
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Stamford Podiatry Group notifies patients that medical and personal information of 40,000 individuals was compromised in a recent security incident.
Unknown Organization
April 13, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Anonymous takes down the Dalhousie University website protesting a 2015 rape case, demanding punishment for the culprits.
The Fappening Forum
April 13, 2016
•[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Fappening Forum is hacked, exposing 179,000 accounts. After the breach the forum is hit by malvertising distributing ransomware.
KnownCircle
April 12, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately April 2016, the "marketing automation for agents and professional service providers" company KnownCircle had a large volume of data obtained by an external party. The data belonging to the now defunct service appeared in JSON format and contained gigabytes of data related to the real estate and insurance sectors. The personal data in the breach appears to have primarily been used for marketing purposes, including logs of emails sent and tracking of gift cards. A small number of passwords for KnownCircle staff were also present and were stored as bcrypt hashes.
Embassy of Russia in Armenia Twitter account
April 7, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
Azerbaijani hackers from Anti-Armenia Team hijack the Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in Armenia (@rusembassyARM).
solen
April 7, 2016
•[ hack, healthcare ]
An unknown hacker hacks solen.cz and dumps nearly 5,000 records with usernames and clear text passwords.
