Taylor Swift Twitter account
January 27, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Taylor Swift's Twitter and Instagram accounts are hacked. The fake posts encourage to follow the users @Veriuser and @Lizzard.
Malaysia Airlines
January 26, 2015
•[ hack ]
The Lizard Squad seizes the website of Malaysia Airlines (malaysiaairlines.com) and redirects the users towards an external page with: a tuxedo-wearing lizard, a reference to the loss of the MH370 flight, and eventually some phrases praising ISIS.
Topface
January 25, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Russian dating site Topface is hacked and the usernames of 20 million visitors are offered for sale on a website. A few days after the hacked site buys back the records (officially "awards" the hacker for discovering the vulnerability).
Nigerian Defence Headquarters
January 24, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) information blog site, defenceinfo.mil.ng is defaced.
University of Chicago
January 24, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
@MarxistAttorney adds the University of Chicago (uchicago.edu) among its victims.
validdumps
January 24, 2015
•[ hack, finance ]
An unknown hacker hacks validdumps.ru (a database of credit cards and Paypal accounts) and dumps 2,534 usernames and hashed passwords.
Barbecue Renew
January 23, 2015
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Barbecue Renew, which sells grill parts through its website grillparts.com, notifies an undisclosed number of individuals that their payment card data may have been compromised as a result of a series of cyber attacks on its web server.
French Ministry of Defense
January 22, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The AnonGhost collective defaces several subdomains of the French Interior and Defense Ministries.
Ghanian Government Websites
January 21, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The majority of the Ghanaian government's websites, including its main site (ghana.gov.gh), have been hacked by a Turkish nationalist collective called Alsancak Tim.
Aussie Travel Cover
January 20, 2015
•[ hack, finance ]
A hacker called abdilo (@abdilo_) claims responsibility for breaching the database of Australian travel insurer Aussie Travel Cover on December 18 last year. He claims to have exfiltrated 700,000 records.
Le Monde
January 20, 2015
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Yet another victim of the Syrian Electronic Army. The Twitter account of the French newspaper Le Monde is hacked and posts a polemic tweet "Je ne suis pas Charlie".
Live for Tomorrow
January 19, 2015
•[ hack, defacement, other ]
Two New Zealand non-profit websites tindall.org.nz and livefortomorrow.co.nz are defaced by a group calling themselves the Team Muslim Cyberforce.
Microsoft Outlook
January 19, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Online censorship watchdog Greatfire.org receives reports related to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack against Outlook users in China.
United Nations Development Programme
January 18, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The anti-Bashar Al Assad hacker Dr.SHA6H defaces the official Pakistani website of UNDP (United Nations Development Programme, undp.un.org.pk) to protest against the ongoing Syrian conflict.
Metropolitan State University
January 16, 2015
•[ hack, sqlinjection, education ]
Minnesota-based Metropolitan State University notifies faculty, staff and students that an attacker may have breached its web server to access a database that contained their personal information. 22,000 users are at risk.
Lizard Squad
January 16, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
LizardStresser[dot]ru, the stresser service (DDoS-for-hire) created by the infamous LizardSquad, is allegedly hacked, revealing the details of its 14,241 users.
Perrysburg, Ohio
January 16, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
Dr.SHA6H keeps on his personal protest against the conflict in Syria. This time the victim is the official website of Perrysburg, Ohio (ci.perrysburg.oh.us).
Lizard Squad
January 16, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2015, the hacker collective known as "Lizard Squad" created a DDoS service by the name of "Lizard Stresser" which could be procured to mount attacks against online targets. Shortly thereafter, the service suffered a data breach which resulted in the public disclosure of over 13k user accounts including passwords stored in plain text.
US Central Command YouTube account
January 12, 2015
•[ hack, government ]
The Twitter and YouTube accounts for the US military command that oversees operations in the Middle East (CENTCOM) are hacked by the CyberCaliphate. Several maps and diagrams are also posted by the attackers, despite Centcom stating that no sensitive information was compromised.
ansar-alhaqq
January 12, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
In the name of OpCharlieHebdo, the Anonymous claim to have take down the first pro-Jihadist site ansar-alhaqq.net. The site is only the first of a list of Islamist sites allegedly taken down by the hacktivists.
