American Institutes for Research
May 21, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
About 6,500 current and former employees of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) may have had personal information compromised after unauthorized access was gained to one of the organization's servers.
Typepad
May 19, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Typepad, the famous blogging platform is under a sustained DDoS attack.
Moz
May 17, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Yet another DDoS attack. This time the victim is moz.com.
Rescator
May 17, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Rescator, a popular underground website that sells payment card data, is hacked and defaced.
Paytime Inc.
May 16, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
An undisclosed number of individuals may have had personal information compromised after hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in systems belonging to Paytime Inc., a Pennsylvania payroll company.
University of Nebraska Omaha
May 16, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
School officials at University of Nebraska Omaha (unomaha.edu) announce to investigate an unauthorized access to an administrative server within campus security.
Road sign in San Francisco
May 16, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
An unknown prankster hacker hacks an electronic traffic sign in San Francisco warning of a Godzilla Attack.
Rawalpindi Police
May 16, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The official website of the Rawalpindi police in Pakistan (rawalpindipolice.gov.pk) is defaced by Anti Mortadin!@, a group that appears to support the Taliban.
University of California Irvine
May 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
More than 1,800 University of California (UC), Irvine, students are notified that they may have had personal information compromised after keylogger malware was discovered on three Student Health Center (SHC) computers for about six weeks.
antiwar
May 14, 2014
•[ hack ]
antiwar.com, a website known for its non-interventionism and war opposing views is hacked just a few hours after launching its fundraising drive.
Soma Municipality
May 14, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists of the RedHack collective blame authorities for the incident in the mine of Soma, and as a consequence they deface the official website of the Soma Municipality.
Gingerbread Shed Corporation
May 13, 2014
•[ hack ]
Arizona-based Gingerbread Shed Corporation notifies customers that an unauthorized individual gained access to its systems for roughly three months and may have compromised about 50,000 transactions, as well as other data.
Gary Barlow
May 12, 2014
•[ hack, social ]
The Twitter account of Gary Barlow (@GaryBarlow) the former frontman of the famous boy band Take That is hacked.
Tata Motors
May 11, 2014
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
The Pakistani hacker H4$N4!N H4XOR defaces a subdomain of the official website of Tata Motors (connect.tatamotors.com).
Indian Ministry of Railways
May 11, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Another episode of the Cyber War between India and Pakistan. A Pakistani hacker called rOOX from Team MadLeets defaces the server of Indian Ministry of Railway, which includes around 47 domains.
Point DNS
May 9, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Domain host Point DNS has been hammered with a high intensity DDoS attack on Friday, knocking servers out for hours.
Bitly
May 8, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.
Orange
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
French telecommunications group Orange announces that a breach last month resulted in the theft of the personal information of 1.3 million of its customers, including phone numbers, dates of birth, and email addresses.
The Wall Street Journal
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, social, technology ]
The Syrian Electronic Army is back and hijacks a total of four Twitter accounts of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Ground(ctrl)
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Ground(ctrl), a company which builds social networking sites and other services for musicians, begins notifying an undisclosed number of users that their personal information may have been exposed when the company's network was hacked.
