Republic of Uganda Ministry of Foreign Affairs
January 6, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A hacker going with the online handle of GeNiuS-JorDan defaces the official website of The Republic of Uganda, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, posting a message against the US Invasion of Iraq.
allwomenstalk
January 5, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Root AKA @ciadotgov hacks allwomenstalk.com and dumps 136,938 usernames and passwords.
Saudi Ministry of Finance
January 5, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous protest against the execution of 47 people in Saudi Arabia and take down several high-profile Saudi Arabian government websites under the banner of operation #OpSaudi and #OpNimr.
AI Squared
January 5, 2016
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
AI Squared, a small Vermont-based tech firm, was targeted by the OilRig threat actors. The hackers allegedly stole the company's certificates to disguise their malware and make it appear legitimate to other targets.
14 Thailand police websites
January 5, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous start their campaign against the Thai government and claims responsibility for shutting down 14 Thailand police websites to protest the death sentences of two Myanmar migrant workers (Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun) convicted of murdering two British tourists.
Unknown Organization
January 4, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia continue in the cyberspace: a group of unknown hackers carries out a DDoS attack on the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense moda.gov.sa.
Russian Federation Ministry of Customs
January 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Turk Hack Team take down several Russian government websites including the Ministry of the Russian Far East Development, Russian Federation Ministry of Construction, The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, Russian Federation Ministry of Customs.
Ministry of Information of Iran
January 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Turk Hack Team take down several Iranian government websites including Ministry of Information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Energy and the official website of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (president.ir).
EpicNPC
January 2, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In January 2016, the hacked account reseller EpicNPC suffered a data breach that impacted 409k subscribers. The impacted data included usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
ServerPact
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2015, the Dutch Minecraft site ServerPact was hacked and 73k accounts were exposed. Along with birth dates, email and IP addresses, the site also exposed SHA1 password hashes with the username as the salt.
Lifeboat
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In January 2016, the Minecraft community known as Lifeboat was hacked and more than 7 million accounts leaked. Lifeboat knew of the incident for three months before the breach was made public but elected not to advise customers. The leaked data included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as straight MD5 hashes.
XPG
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately early 2016, the gaming website Xpgamesaves (XPG) suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 890k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory. This data was provided by security researcher and data analyst, Adam Davies.
MoDaCo
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately January 2016, the UK based Android community known as MoDaCo suffered a data breach which exposed 880k subscriber identities. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Commission on Elections
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
hacked
Democratic National Committee
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, government ]
hacked
