Isdarat
November 18, 2015
•[ hack ]
Members of the hacking collective Anonymous claim to have shut down Isdarat, a main'forum on the Dark Web.
Islamic State Twitter accounts
November 18, 2015
•[ hack ]
In name of #OpParis, the activist group Anonymous claims to have taken down 5,500 pro-ISIS Twitter accounts.
Landesk
November 18, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Landesk alerts employees that a data breach may have exposed their personal information. According to some internal sources, the attackers first broke into Landesk network in June 2014.
http://www
November 17, 2015
•[ hack ]
An unknown hacker hacks friendshipkey.com and dumps 16,353 usernames and hashed passwords.
Unknown Organization
November 15, 2015
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Fashion to Figure notifies customers of a breach involving malware inserted on their web host's server
Graham Cluley Blog
November 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The website of the security blogger Graham Cluley (https://grahamcluley.com) is taken down by a DDoS attack.
VTech
November 13, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
In November 2015, hackers extracted more than 4.8 million parents' and 227k children's accounts from VTech's Learning Lodge website. The Hong Kong company produces learning products for children including software sold via the compromised website. The data breach exposed extensive personal details including home addresses, security questions and answers and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes. Furthermore, children's details including names, ages, genders and associations to their parents' records were also exposed.
Comcast
November 11, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Comcast resets 200k cleartext passwords, after a hacker known as Orion claims to have stolen the database and puts it on sale on the dark web. Nearly 590,000 users could have been compromised.
Jewish Free School
November 11, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
The Tunisian Fallaga Team defaces the website of Europe's largest Jewish school, JFS, posting a message that calls for an end to Islamophobia and aggression against Muslims.
Spotify
November 10, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Newsweek reveals that over one thousand email addresses and passwords from the musing streaming app Spotify were leaked following a hack.
Hushmail
November 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hushmail experiences two unscheduled service outages resulting from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Unknown Organization
November 9, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The UK social networking Xat (xat.com) is hacked and notifies the users that its database has been acquired by the attackers.
Aviacion Militar Bolivariana
November 8, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
KelvinSecTeam hacks the website of the Aviacion Militar Bolivariana (aviacion.mil.ve) and dumps 1,997 records.
http://pixarra
November 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Eggfather hacks pixarra.com and dumps 8,525 usernames and hashed passwords.
http://www
November 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Eggfather hacks lonestarspeedzone.com and dumps 1,939 usernames and hashed passwords.
Touchnote
November 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The U.K.-based app for photo postcard service Touchnote notifies its registered customers that the company has been hacked and some personal information has possibly been compromised.
Obama Administration officials
November 6, 2015
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
The Wall Street Journal reveals that the email and social media accounts of Obama administration officials were recently hacked by members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
Ku Klux Klan
November 6, 2015
•[ hack, leak ]
Hacking collective Anonymous has released the identities of 1000 KKK members online.
Zoho
November 4, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Zoho is subject to a DDoS attack. The attack starts on November the 4th and affects the company for one week.
xat
November 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In November 2015, the online chatroom known as "xat" was hacked and 6 million user accounts were exposed. Used as a chat engine on websites, the leaked data included usernames, email and IP addresses along with hashed passwords.
