Goteborgs Posten
March 19, 2016
•[ hack, ddos ]
A threat actor launched a denial of service attack on nine news websites in Sweden, triggering a local police investigation. U.S. diplomatic cables later revealed that the United States suspected that Russia was responsible for the incident.
visit-jy
March 18, 2016
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Hacktivists from KarmaSec hack the server of Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture Tourism Promotion Division (visit-jy.com) and leak a trove of data protesting in animal cruelty in the country.
BitQuick
March 18, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
BitQuick announces to shut down its server following an attack that gave the attacker unauthorized administrative access. However, all funds, IDs and emails remain secured.
Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation
March 17, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation notifies past applicants that their names, addresses and Social Security numbers may have been stolen by hackers.
River Cree Casino
March 17, 2016
•[ hack ]
The River Cree casino says it was the victim of a "cyberattack" that resulted in the theft of customer and employee information.
Swiss People's Party (SVP)
March 16, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A group of hackers dubbed NSHC claims to have hacked the database of Switzerland's largest political party, the conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP) and stolen the personal data of over 50,000 people, including the names and email addresses of SVP supporters.
Tuned Global
March 16, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, data from a number of breached services including Tuned Global were released to a public hacking forum. The breach appears to date back to 2016 and includes 985k records containing email addresses, names, a small number of physical addresses and phone numbers and passwords stored in plain text.
LAZ Parking
March 15, 2016
•[ leak, financial, hack ]
LAZ Parking reveals that tax and revenue information for about 14,000 employees may have been stolen by an "unknown individual.
Naughty America
March 14, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2016, the adult website Naughty America was hacked and the data consequently sold online. The breach included data from numerous systems with various personal identity attributes, the largest of which had passwords stored as easily crackable MD5 hashes. There were 1.4 million unique email addresses in the breach.
Salt Lake City Police
March 13, 2016
•[ hack, government, finance ]
Hackers from New World Hackers group (NWH) claim to have taken down the official website of Salt Lake City police, the airport, First Utah Bank and Downtown Alliance in a form of protest against the shooting of the teenager Abdi Mohamed.
Hi-Tec Sports
March 11, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
Hi-Tec Sports notifies customers about a compromise affecting its online ordering system and payment card data.
worldchess
March 11, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Controversial website worldchess.com, broadcasting in exclusive the World Chess Candidates Tournament, is the target of a DDoS attack.
Staminus
March 11, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In March 2016, the DDoS protection service Staminus was "massively hacked" resulting in an outage of more than 20 hours and the disclosure of customer credentials (with unsalted MD5 hashes), support tickets, credit card numbers and other sensitive data. 27k unique email addresses were found in the data which was subsequently released to the public. Staminus is no longer in operation.
Litecointalk Forum
March 10, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
The Litecointalk forum is hacked, and all users are forced to reset their passwords.
1-800-FLOWERS
March 8, 2016
•[ hack, retail ]
1-800 Flowers sends out data breach letters notifying customers that a hacker might have stolen their personal information.
Hawking Technology
March 8, 2016
•[ hack, leak, manufacturing ]
An unknown hacker hacks hawkingtech.com and dumps 12,548 records with usernamens and hashed passwords.
Illinois Valley Podiatry Group
March 8, 2016
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Illinois Valley Podiatry Group warns 26,588 patients after a contractor hacked.
Unnamed South Korean news-clipping firm
March 5, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
South Korean officials launch an investigation into whether an Islamic State militant group hacked a South Korean news-clipping firm's computer network. Data on 20 South Koreans was reportedly acquired in the attack.
cplusplustutor
March 2, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker hacks cplusplustutor.com and dumps 5,596 usernames and hashed passwords.
Bank of North Dakota
March 1, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Members of the @TheFamilyMethod claim to have hacked the Bank of North Dakota and dump the records of 124 transactions.
