Embassy of Russia in Israel
January 16, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
A crew of Pro-Turkish hackers defaces the website of the Russian Embassy in Israel (russianembassy.org.il).
pagesjaunesdusenegal
January 16, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown attacker hacks pagesjaunesdusenegal.com and dumps 9500 usernames and hashed passwords.
Cryptsy
January 15, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Paul Vernon, founder of Cryptsy announces that the cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked. The announcement is made more than a year after the discovery of the hack because Cryptsy, in the meantime, was trying to cover the losses, which amount to USD 6 million.
emkoelektronik
January 14, 2016
•[ hack ]
A hacker with the handle bRpsd hacks emkoelektronik.com.tr and dumps 9,253 usernames with clear text passwords.
Supreme Court of Thailand
January 14, 2016
•[ leak, hack, government ]
The Operation #BoycottThailand, aimed to expose the wrongdoing of Thai Police over the death sentences handed down to two Myanmar migrant workers, continues. Blink Hacker Group, a collective affiliated to the Anonymous leaks 1Gb of data belonging to Thailand's Supreme Court.
uTorrent
January 14, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In early 2016, the forum for the uTorrent BitTorrent client suffered a data breach which came to light later in the year. The database from the IP.Board based forum contained 395k accounts including usernames, email addresses and MD5 password hashes without a salt.
nissan
January 13, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, manufacturing ]
In name of #OpKillingBay, the Japanese carmaker suspends its global (nissan-global.com) and Japanese (nissan.co.jp) sites after they are DDoSed by Anonymous.
Citrix
January 13, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A Russian hacker dubbed W0rm claims to have broken into systems run by Citrix, and gained access to potentially a huge number of customers.
Hundreds of Thai government websites
January 13, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous continue their campaign against the Thai government and take down hundreds of government websites over death sentences handed down to two Myanmar migrant workers (Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun) for the murder of two British tourists (Hannah Witheridge and David Miller).
TaxSlayer
January 13, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Tax preparation software publisher TaxSlayer notifies about 8,800 of its customers that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to the personal information contained on their tax return.
faithless
January 11, 2016
•[ hack ]
18,000 British fans of the dance music band Faithless have their personal data stolen after the website faithless.co.uk is hacked. The breach happened in September but is reported only in January 2016.
TaxAct
January 11, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Tax software maker TaxAct informs some of its customers that an unauthorized third party accessed their TaxAct account in late 2015.
Unknown Organization
January 11, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Minnesota court system announces that its website (mncourts.gov) was down for ten days in December due to a series of severe DDoS attacks.
milq
January 10, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
root AKA @ciadotgov hacks milq.com and dumps 3,594 usernames and hashed passwords
Jeremy Corbyn Twitter Account (@jeremycorbyn)
January 10, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An attacker takes over the Twitter account of the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and posts several bogus tweets. In particular one of them mocks the UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
o2c
January 10, 2016
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
Fr0mShell hacks o2c.fr and dumps 4,160 accounts with clear text passwords.
Interxion
January 9, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Data center services Interxion informs customers that it has suffered a security breach, which has seen hackers access contact information stored in its CRM about corporate clients and prospects. The breach happened in December and could have affected 23,200 contacts.
Nigerian Ministry of Finance
January 8, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of #OpNigeria and #OpCorruption, the Nigerian branch of the Anonymous takes down several government websites.
M. Aslam Sons
January 8, 2016
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
An Indian hacking crew going by the name of IBH (Indian Black Hats) defaces several Pakistani websites in revenge for the death of Lt. Col. Niranjan Kumar, and as an homage to his two-year-old daughter Vismaya.
Forbes
January 6, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Brian Baskin, a digital forensics expert, is served with malware when visiting the Forbes' website, after disabling the AD blocker as suggested.
