Banca Intesa
September 28, 2015
•[ hack, leak, finance ]
In the name of #OpBankDump, Ghost Italy, a local cell of the Anonymous collective, hacks Banca Intesa and Unipol Banca, and leaks several databases, mainly related to external contractors. They also deface the main pages of the banks.
Kerala Government Website
September 27, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
A Pakistani hacker dubbed Pakistan Zindabad defaces two websites belonging to the Kerala Government.
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs
September 26, 2015
•[ hack, leak, government ]
As part of their vendetta against the Canadian government, hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous collective leak another high-level confidential federal document, this time from the Department of Foreign Affairs.
North Oldham High School
September 25, 2015
•[ hack, malware, education ]
North Oldham High School alerts 2,800 current and former students that a data breach earlier this month could have exposed their names, social security numbers and other personal information after a school computer falls victim to a drive-by attack.
PSP ISO
September 25, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately September 2015, the PlayStation PSP forum known as PSP ISO was hacked and almost 1.3 million accounts were exposed. Along with email and IP addresses, the vBulletin forum also exposed salted MD5 password hashes.
8chan
September 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Imgur, the photo-sharing website, is exploited in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the popular imageboards 4chan and 8chan.
DressCloud
September 24, 2015
•[ hack, retail ]
The NetPirates hack dresscloud.pl and dump 5,269 usernames and hashed passwords.
realtor
September 22, 2015
•[ hack, malware ]
Yet another high-profile website victim of a malvertising campaign. This time the target is realtor.com, a popular real estate website ranked third in its category with an estimated 28 million monthly visits.
Philippines' National Telecom Commission
September 22, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The website of the Philippines' National Telecom Commission (NTC), ntc.gov.ph, is defaced by the local branch of the Anonymous in a form of protest against the slow local Internet connection speed.
http://asankadr
September 18, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
ElliotAlderson hacks asankadr.az and dumps 5,926 usernames and hashed passwords.
Ceph
September 18, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Red Hat reveals to have suffered an intrusion on the sites of both the Ceph community project (ceph.com) and Inktank (download.inktank.com) that resulted in signed code being accessed.
Embarcadero Media Group
September 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos ]
An individual or group claiming to be the hacktivist collective Anonymous shuts down all websites operated by Embarcadero Media Group, which runs several community newspapers in the Bay Area.
Experian (2015)
September 16, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
In September 2015, the US based credit bureau and consumer data broker Experian suffered a data breach that impacted 15 million customers who had applied for financing from T-Mobile. An alleged data breach was subsequently circulated containing personal information including names, physical and email addresses, birth dates and various other personal attributes. Multiple Have I Been Pwned subscribers verified portions of the data as being accurate, but the actual source of it was inconclusive therefor this breach has been flagged as "unverified".
Forbes
September 15, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Forbes is notified of a malvertising campaign on its website running from 8 to 15 September. The company states to have removed the offending ads.
The Kremlin
September 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Kremlin's official website falls under a massive DDoS attack. The attack is carried out simultaneously with another attack that reportedly targeted the website of the Russian Electoral Commission. Both of the attacks occuer on national Election Day.
Dhaka University
September 11, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
The Dhaka University website is defaced by hacker called Cyber-71.
UK Cabinet Ministers
September 11, 2015
•[ espionage, hack, government ]
The Telegraph reveals that jihadists in Syria hacked into UK ministerial email accounts in a sophisticated espionage operation uncovered by GCHQ.
The Pentagon
September 8, 2015
•[ hack, financial, government ]
Hackers infiltrated the Pentagon food court's computer system, compromising the bank data of an unknown number of employees.
Essex Police
September 4, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The same attacker who took down the Manchester Police earlier this month, also takes down the website of the Essex Police.
Mozilla Bugzilla
September 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Mozilla reveals that an attacker stole security-sensitive vulnerability information from the Mozilla's Bugzilla bug tracking system and probably used it to attack Firefox users. The attacker may have had access since September 2013.
