Antrix Corporation
July 12, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Indian space agency ISRO's commercial arm Antrix, has its website defaced. Suspects are thought to be Chinese hackers.
Seedpeer
July 12, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2015, the torrent site Seedpeer was hacked and 282k member records were exposed. The data included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes.
New York City Comptroller
July 10, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
A Pro-Palestinian hacker going with the handle of AlfabetoVirtual defaces the official website of New York City's Comptroller Mr. Scott M. Stringer (http://comptroller.nyc.gov).
Daybreak Games
July 10, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Daybreak Game Company is hit witha DDoS after its CEO threatens convicted Lizard Squad hacker Julius Kivimaki.
State Ministry for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia
July 8, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The Cyber Islamic State hackers deface the official website of The State Ministry for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia (eu-nato.gov.ge).
Bundeswehr
July 7, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
German-owned Patriot missiles stationed in Turkey are briefly taken over by hackers.
Edinburgh CIty Council
July 7, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
More than 13,000 email addresses have been stolen from Edinburgh city council's database following a "malicious cyber attack".
housing
July 7, 2015
•[ hack ]
The realty portal housing.com is defaced, a week after its CEO is hacked.
Unknown Organization
July 7, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
A group of Bangladeshi hackers going with the handle of DangerPro defaces the contact us page of the official website of Pizza Hut Israel (contact.pizzahut.co.il).
Vehicle Donation Processing Center
July 6, 2015
•[ hack, automotive ]
Charitable car donors using the Vehicle Donation Processing Center learn their personal information was hacked.
Hacking Team
July 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In July 2015, the Italian security firm Hacking Team suffered a major data breach that resulted in over 400GB of their data being posted online via a torrent. The data searchable on "Have I Been Pwned?" is from 189GB worth of PST mail folders in the dump. The contents of the PST files is searchable on Wikileaks.
myRepoSpace
July 6, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the Cydia repository known as myRepoSpace was hacked and user data leaked publicly. Cydia is designed to facilitate the installation of apps on jailbroken iOS devices. The repository service was allegedly hacked by @its_not_herpes and 0x8badfl00d in retaliation for the service refusing to remove pirated tweaks.
Hacking Team
July 5, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Hacking Team, the Italian company behind the infamous surveillance software is hacked. The attacker, allegedly the same author behind the attack on Gamma International (another surveillance software) dumps approximately 400Gb of data by hijacking the Hacking Team Twitter account.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
July 4, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In name of OpIndia, AnonOpsindia, a group affiliated to the Anonymous collective hacks BSNL and claims to have siphoned the entire database, which has sensitive information of over 30 million users.
Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Solidarity
July 3, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
In name of #OpBillC51, the Anonymous hacks the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan Centre (http://www.rqap.gouv.qc.ca), The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Solidarity (http://www.mess.gouv.qc.ca) and The National Review Commission website on employment insurance.
Azerbaijani State Customs Committee
July 2, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Armenian hackers from Monte Melkonian Cyber Army hack into the official website of Azerbaijani customs (and other Azerbaijani sites), stealing highly confidential personal information of 5650 Azerbaijani citizens.
iPmart
July 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
During 2015, the iPmart forum (now known as Mobi NUKE) was hacked and over 2 million forum members' details were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked. A further 368k accounts were added to "Have I Been Pwned" in March 2016 bringing the total to over 2.4M.
Qatar National Bank
July 1, 2015
•[ hack, sqlinjection, finance ]
In July 2015, the Qatar National Bank suffered a data breach which exposed 15k documents totalling 1.4GB and detailing more than 100k accounts with passwords and PINs. The incident was made public some 9 months later in April 2016 when the documents appeared publicly on a file sharing site. Analysis of the breached data suggests the attack began by exploiting a SQL injection flaw in the bank's website.
PS3Hax
July 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately July 2015, the Sony Playstation hacks and mods forum known as PS3Hax was hacked and more than 447k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Minefield
June 28, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2015, the French Minecraft server known as Minefield was hacked and 188k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
