Vatican City
April 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
A Turkish hacker with the handle @THTHerakles shut down the Vatican City official website (vatican.va) to protest against Pope Francis' remarks in which he used the word "genocide" to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks.
Montreal Police Department
April 12, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The hacker group Anonymous Quebec takes down the Montreal Police department website and the officers' union to protest against the brutality used during student demonstrations.
Biggby Coffee
April 10, 2015
•[ hack, retail ]
Biggby Coffee announces that an intruder forced their way into its systems and accessed a database containing personal information.
Hunan Police Academy
April 10, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
AnonymousGlobo defaces several Chinese government websites including the Hunan (a province in China) Police Academy website in solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Embassy of Turkmenistan in Belarus
April 9, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The website of Turkmenistan's embassy in Belarus is taken offline following an apparent hack by two ISIS supporters.
The Jewish Community of China
April 7, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Other #OpIsrael attacks: Anonymous, Anonymous Arabe, Anonymous Arab and AnonGhost deface several private domains and several governmental sites in addition to leaking data of Israeli citizens.
White House
April 7, 2015
•[ espionage, hack, government ]
Threat actors that are suspected to be from Russia have compromised unclassified White House networks using access from compromised networks at the State Department. The hack was first discovered in October 2014.
British Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
April 7, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Islamist hackers of the Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail deface uk-air.defra.gov.uk, a website run by the British Government's Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and dedicated to monitoring air pollution.
Wellesley College
April 5, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
4/2o Cell AKA @Puttied hacks a subdomain of wellesley.edu (mobius.wellesley.edu) and claims to have obtained 700 records.
Linux Australia
April 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Linux Australia warns its members and conference attendees that their personal information may have fallen into the hands of online criminals, following a breach of the organisation's servers.
domainstream
April 1, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
PH1K3 hacks domainstream.se and dumps 1,149 records with Personally Identifiable Information
SweClockers.com
April 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In early 2015, the Swedish tech news site SweClockers was hacked and 255k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of usernames, email addresses and salted hashes of passwords stored with a combination of MD5 and SHA512.
Hostgator
March 31, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The pro-Bashar Al Assad hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army claim to have hacked popular hosting companies running under the Endurance International Group. The list of hacked hosting companies include Bluehost, Fastdomain, Hostgator, Hostmonster and Justhost.
Office of the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts
March 31, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The official website of the Office of the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Officers) (pcdaopune.gov.in) is hacked and 50,000 personal details besides login names and passwords may have been compromised.
Air France
March 30, 2015
•[ hack ]
The website of Air France's national mutual society (mnpaf.fr) is defaced by a group calling itself Moujahidin Team, in retaliation for the Setif and Guelma massacres that happened on May 8, 1945.
US Army Picatinny Arsenal
March 30, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Saudi hackers from Team Bad Dream deface the official website of U.S. Army Picatinny Arsenal (pica.army.mil).
Puush
March 30, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The screen sharing platform Puush is hit by a cyber attack that injected malware into a server. Users are prompted to uninstall the app and change important passwords that were stored on PCs as well as those saved in major browsers.
lumensfactory
March 29, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
Histeria hacks lumensfactory.com and dumps 2,550 usernames and clear text passwords.
Virgil Films
March 28, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
R3dm0v3 hacks virgilfilmsent.com and dumps 3,482 usernames and passwords.
pvpserverin
March 28, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Ebu Duhan hacks pvpserverin.com and dumps 2,614 usernames and passwords.