Femsplain
March 8, 2015
•[ hack, ddos ]
femsplain.com, a feminist blog, is the target of a DDoS attack on International Women's Day.
epicpr
March 7, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
FRID4Y AKA @_FRID4Y_ hacks epicpr.com and dumps 21,500 usernames and clear text passwords.
Rapides Parish Police Jury
March 7, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The actions of the hacktivist group AnonGhost are not isolated: now they deface the official website of the state of Louisiana Rapides Parish Police Jury, Southern Heritage Bank and Churchill Banks.
Larimer County Sheriff's Office
March 6, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
And for the second time in a week, the Anonghost deface, once again, the official website of Colorado's Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
San Marcos Police Department
March 5, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Bitcoin Baron takes down the City of San Marcos and San Marcos PD websites in retaliation for the assault on a student.
Larimer County Sheriff's Office
March 5, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The official website of Colorado's Larimer County Sheriff's Office (LCSO, larimersheriff.org) is defaced by the Pro-Palestinian hacking group AnonGhost.
Rublev
March 5, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The services of religious-centric Russian search engine "Rublev" are interrupted by a DDoS attack about five hours after being launched to the public.
Walters McCann Fanska
March 4, 2015
•[ hack, finance ]
Accounting firm Walters McCann Fanska notifies clients that their personal and financial account information may have been acquired by hackers who had access to the firm's network
Bradley University
March 1, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
The Bradley University informs its employees, retirees, and former employees that their identifiable information, including Social Security numbers, might have been compromised as a result of a breach of system data security.
Hanford Site
March 1, 2015
•[ financial, espionage, hack ]
Hackers conducted a combination of financially motivated and espionage-driven hacking operations against hundreds of companies, organizations, and research firms based in the United States and other countries, stealing terabytes of information. One of these targets was the Hanford Site, a Department of Energy nuclear waste complex. The two hackers, Li Xiayou and Dong Jiazhi, allegedly carried out their activities with the help of China's Ministry of State Security.
000webhost
March 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately March 2015, the free web hosting provider 000webhost suffered a major data breach that exposed almost 15 million customer records. The data was sold and traded before 000webhost was alerted in October. The breach included names, email addresses and plain text passwords.
HongFire
March 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2015, the anime and manga forum HongFire suffered a data breach. The hack of their vBulletin forum led to the exposure of 1 million accounts along with email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 passwords.
frontalot
February 28, 2015
•[ hack ]
f AKA @CIeaver hacks frontalot.com and dumps about 66,000 usernames and hashed passwords.
Japan Association of Zoos and Aquariums
February 27, 2015
•[ hack, leak ]
In the name of OpSeaWorld, Anonymous hackers hack the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (jaza.jp) and leak about 1,500 usernames and clear text passwords.
University of Lisbon
February 27, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
The group of hacktivists Sudoh4k3rs hacks the two subdomains of the University of Lisbon and dumps the database and the administrator password.
New Drop High School
February 27, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
Eric Walstrom, a student at New Dorp High School hacks into a secure computer system to improve his scores. Unfortunately he is discovered.
Chile Ministry of Defense
February 26, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
An anonymous ISIS supporter defaces Chile's Ministry of Defense website (ssdefensa.cl).
New York City Government
February 25, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Almost all government agencies in New York City are unable to send or receive messages for nearly a week as a consequence of a DDoS attack. A further investigation reveals that the attack may have originated from Russia.
The National Archives
February 25, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Law enforcement is investigating a possible data breach at the National Archives, after a hacker group releases a video purporting to show a break-in on the agency's website.
The Urban Institute
February 24, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
The Urban Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC, alerts charitable organizations around the country that its system for filing tax forms was breached.
