Regional Electoral Court of the Amazon
June 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
As part of #OpWorldCup and #OpHackingCup, Anonymous hacks a number of Brazilian organizations during the World Cup.
INVALSI
June 15, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker illegitimately accesses the systems of INVALSI, the public Italian System for School Assessment. This happens few days before the official start of the assessments affecting 600,000 students.
Domino's Pizza
June 13, 2014
•[ ransomware, hack, retail ]
Rex Mundi claim to have managed to breach the systems of Domino's Pizza in Belgium and France and obtained access to more than 592,000 records belonging to French customers and over 58,000 records belonging to Belgians. They ask for a ransom in exchange.
Undisclosed online gambling website
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos ]
Cloud-based security services provider Incapsula states to have fought off a 100 Gbps DDoS attack against an online gambling website.
Deezer
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The French music service Deezer is struck by a DDoS attack, which remains unavailable during the weekend.
Evernote
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mobile and online note app Evernote was hit with a DDoS attack, taking its servers offline for several hours.
Placemark Investments
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
Placemark Investments begins notifying an undisclosed number of clients that their personal information may have been exposed when one of its servers was breached.
New York Board of Elections
June 9, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The Anonymous protest against the FIFA World Cup starts here: the hacktivist collective defaces the New York State Board of Elections official website (elections.ny.gov).
Rowan Companies
June 8, 2014
•[ hack, energy ]
Rowan Companies notifies employees, vendors, and contractors of a system intrusion.
US Army
June 6, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The US Army warns that databases holding information on 16,000 South Korean civilian employees of the US military and applicants for base jobs may have been compromised.
ESET
June 6, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The ESET Security Forum is hacked and the company confirms that account credentials of its roughly 2,700 members have been accessed by the attackers.
Power Equipment Direct
June 2, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Power Equipment Direct (PED) notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been accessed when the server that handles the company's checkout process was infected with malware.
Brazilian Ministry of External Relations
May 30, 2014
•[ hack, social, phishing ]
The internal communications system of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations has been hit by hackers carried on with spear-phishing emails.
ARY News
May 29, 2014
•[ hack ]
The official website of Pakistan's ARY News Channel website is hacked and defaced by Pakistani hacker H4$N4!N H4XOR. According to the author of the attack, "You have been punished for broadcasting blasphemous, vulgar and Indian material".
Spotify
May 27, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Spotify warns of unauthorized access to the company's network and internal data. The unauthorized access appears to involve data for a single, unspecified person.
Avast
May 27, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The support forum of Avast is hacked. Attackers get access to cryptographically hashed passwords, usernames, and e-mail addresses for about 400,000 people.
Taj Mahal Website
May 27, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Another episode of the Cyber War between India and Pakistan, The main page of Taj Mahal website (tajmahal.gov.in) is hacked by H4$N4!N H4XOR, displaying the Pakistan's flag.
Arizona Department of Homeland Security
May 26, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A Turkish hacker going with the handle of Swan defaces the official website of the Arizona Department of Homeland Security. The hacker also defaces the official website of the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs website.
New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
May 26, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A $12.7 million supercomputer owned by Niwa (New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research) is targeted by a computer hacker believed to have come from China.
Ukrainian Election Commission
May 22, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The official website of Ukraine's election commission (cvk.gov) is targeted by a massive DDoS attack on the eve of country's presidential polls. The pro-Russian CyberBerkut collective claims responsibility for the attack.
