Japanese Prime Minister
December 10, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The website of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (s-abe.or.jp) is taken down by a DDoS attack. The hacktivist collective Anonymous is suspected to be the author of the attack on the site in protest of the nation's whale hunting policy.
Swedish House Mafia Facebook Page
December 10, 2015
•[ hack ]
The Facebook page of the Electronic Dance Music Group Swedish House Mafia is hacked and the attacker posts some offending images of Miley Cyrus.
DNS root servers
December 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
On November 30, 2015 and December 1, 2015, over two separate intervals, several of the Internet Domain Name System's root name servers are the target of a massive DDoS attack.
http://artrookie
December 7, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Rubber AKA @smitt3nz hacks artrookie.co.uk and dumps 1,710 usernames and hashed passwords.
Janet
December 7, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
UK publicly-funded academic computer network Janet comes under a persistent DDoS attack today.
http://www
December 7, 2015
•[ hack, healthcare ]
GrenXPaRTa hacks befriending.co.uk and dumps 7325 usernames and hashed passwords.
Aternos
December 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In December 2015, the service for creating and running free Minecraft servers known as Aternos suffered a data breach that impacted 1.4 million subscribers. The data included usernames, email and IP addresses and hashed passwords.
http://saifa
December 4, 2015
•[ hack, retail ]
ap3x h4x0r from the Anonsec collective hacks saifa.ir and dumps 11,792 records.
Royal Thai Police
December 4, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpSingleGateway, the Anonymous hack Thailand Police Servers to protest against Internet censorship.
Meta-Fusion GmbH
December 2, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The second round of the campaign of the Anonymous against the Cop21 (the United Nations Conference of Climate Change) kicks off. The hacktivists hack the website of Meta-Fusion GmbH, a Germany-based official Webcast Streaming Service Provider for the UNFC.
The Barbados Advocate
December 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The Barbados Advocate, the second most dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados is defaced by the Muslim Electronic Army.
Programming Forums
December 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k 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.
Nihonomaru
December 1, 2015
•[ hack ]
In late 2015, the anime community known as Nihonomaru had their vBulletin forum hacked and 1.7 million accounts exposed. The compromised data included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted hashes of passwords.
Iceland government
November 30, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of #OpWhales, the Anonymous take down almost all the Iceland government websites for about 13 hours as a protest against the whaling practices in Iceland.
Jabalpur Police
November 28, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers calling themselves "Pakistani cyber attackers" deface the official website of Jabalpur police with Pakistani flags and slogans claiming revenge against Indian attacks.
Richland County Veterans Service Office
November 28, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
A collective of pro-ISIS hackers dubbed Team System DZ defaces three domains of the Richland County office.
VTech
November 28, 2015
•[ hack ]
A massive breach compromises 4.8 million of records from VTech, a Hong Kong toy company.
Central Bank of India
November 27, 2015
•[ hack, finance ]
Pakistani hackers hack the website of the Central Bank of India.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
November 26, 2015
•[ hack ]
On the 7th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, Indian hackers have defaced over 200 Pakistani websites to express discontent with the alleged Pakistani involvement in the attacks. One of the victims is Lashkar-e-Taiba which is believed to be the main perpetrator.
Invest Bank
November 25, 2015
•[ hack, leak, ransomware ]
A hacker called Hacker Buba hacks into Invest Bank and holds it to ransom, demanding $3M, and leaking confidential data of clients on Twitter every few hours.
