Islamic State
February 29, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter reveals that the US military is currently waging a cyber-offensive to "interrupt [and] disrupt ISIL's command and control, to cause them to lose confidence in their networks, to overload their network so that they can't function, and do all of these things that will interrupt their ability to command and control forces there, control the population and the economy."
Solar UK Ltd
February 28, 2016
•[ hack, energy ]
Hackers from Cyber Caliphate supporting the Islamic State group deface Solar UK Ltd. a small solar energy company, in revenge for a drone strike which killed Junaid Hussain.
primodominio
February 27, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
LulzSec Italia hacks primodominio.it and dumps 126,422 usernames and passwords.
International Civil Aviation Organization
February 27, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
New reports reveal that back in 2016 ICAO was hit by a serious cyberattack.
Pickens County School District
February 26, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
The Pickens County School District is flooded by a DDoS attack.
RubberStamps
February 25, 2016
•[ hack, retail ]
RubberStamps.net notifies about 7,000 customers that its web site was compromised
Coast Central Credit Union
February 25, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
The website of Coast Central Credit Union, a financial institution that serves more than 60,000 customers, is hacked, allowing attackers to implant a backdoor.
Website of the Italian region of Basilicata
February 22, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpGreenRights, the Italian branch of the Anonymous collective takes down the websites on local authorities of Apulia and Basilicata for participating in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project.
Linux Mint
February 21, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In February 2016, the website for the Linux distro known as Linux Mint was hacked and the ISO infected with a backdoor. The site also ran a phpBB forum which was subsequently put up for sale complete with almost 145k email addresses, passwords and other personal subscriber information.
Linux Mint Distribution
February 20, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Clem Lefebvre, the creator of the Linux Mint Distribution reveals that an intrusion on the distribution's web site took place, in which hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack the website to point to it.
Bohemia Interactive
February 19, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Bohemia Interactive announces a potential security breach of the Mantis Feedback Tracker systems, used to collect feedback and bug reports for the games Arma 3 and DayZ.
Israel's CCTV Systems
February 19, 2016
•[ espionage, hack, government ]
Qadmon (or Kadimon), one of Hezbollah's hacking units reveals it managed to breach many of Israel's CCTV systems, having had access to camera feeds from various government buildings.
SkTorrent
February 19, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2016, the Slovak torrent tracking site SkTorrent was hacked and over 117k records leaked online. The data dump included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
bfsihiring
February 17, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Bravewanderer hacks bfsihiring.com and dumps 24,317 usernames and clear text passwords.
techfactory
February 17, 2016
•[ hack, retail ]
Bravewanderer hacks techfactory.net and dumps 15,601 usernames and clear text passwords.
Difference Games
February 16, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Team Fursec hack differencegames.com and dump 16,589 usernames and hashed passwords.
Kankakee Valley REMC
February 16, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, energy ]
Kankakee Valley REMC falls victim to a possible breach, due to the access of a storage device on the cooperative's network from a foreign IP.
Spotify
February 15, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Hundreds of Spotify Premium account details are compromised and leaked online by an unknown hacker. A number of separate data dumps containing email addresses, passwords, account types and renewal dates appear online.
South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA)
February 15, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpAfrica and #OpMonsanto hackers from World Hacker Team hack South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA) and leak the data of 5,800 government employees.
Xbox Live
February 15, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The New World Hackers crew takes down the Xbox Live Service.
