Unnamed German steel mill
December 22, 2014
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
An unidentified threat actor compromised an unnamed German steel mill by accessing the plant's business network and working its way into production networks and the systems controlling plant equipment. The compromise caused one of plant's furnaces to shut down, causing some damage..
Team SoloMid
December 22, 2014
•[ hack, leak ]
In December 2014, the electronic sports organisation known as Team SoloMid was hacked and 442k members accounts were leaked. The accounts included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted hashes of passwords.
Warframe
November 24, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In November 2014, the online game Warframe was hacked and 819k unique email addresses were exposed. Allegedly due to a SQL injection flaw in Drupal, the attack exposed usernames, email addresses and data in a "pass" column which adheres to the salted SHA12 password hashing pattern used by Drupal 7. Digital Extremes (the developers of Warframe), asserts the salted hashes are of "alias names" rather than passwords.
Malwarebytes
November 15, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2014, the Malwarebytes forum was hacked and 111k 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.
Bot of Legends
November 13, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In November 2014, the forum for Bot of Legends suffered a data breach. The IP.Board forum contained 238k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency
November 12, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Chinese threat actors accessed the network of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The hack resulted in NOAA temporarily halting the sending of satellite data to institutions such as the National Weather Service.
City of Phoenix, Arizona
October 28, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The computer systems of the public services in Phoenix, Arizona, are the target of a DDoS Attack.
Popular Science
October 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Websense detects that the official website of Popular Science (popsci.com) is compromised, serving malicious code.
giftstore
October 27, 2014
•[ hack, leak, financial ]
A Saudi hacker dubbed @security_511 claims to have hacked a private online Israeli gift store (giftstore.co.il) and leaks credit card details of several customers.
Bharatiya Janata Party
October 27, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The online hacktivist Z Company Hacking Crew defaces the Indian ruling party Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)'s Rajkot City website (bjprajkotcity.org) in support of an independent Kashmir.
