Midwest Orthopaedics
April 8, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
More than 1,200 patients of Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush (MOR) may have had personal information compromised after an unknown individual gained unauthorized access to a doctor's personal email account, which contained the data.
Department of Culture, Media and Sport
April 7, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The verified Twitter account of the United Kingdom's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (@DCMS) is hacked over the weekend. The hacker posts three messages referencing MP Maria Miller on the compromised feed.
Kansas Interactive Testing Engine
April 4, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
A DDoS attack takes down the Kansas Interactive Testing Engine (KITE, ksassessments.org), Kansas' new online student testing system.
JSTOR
April 2, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
Digital library JSTOR notifies approximately 800 users that their personal information may be at risk after their MyJSTOR accounts were accessed by an unauthorized third party.
Boxee
April 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers post names, e-mail addresses, message histories, and partially protected login credentials for more than 158,000 forum users of Boxee.tv, the Web-based television service that was acquired by Samsung last year.
Albuquerque Police Department
March 31, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Albuquerque Police Department is the target of a DDoS attack carried on by the Infamous Anonymous collective.
Armed Forces Training Authority
March 31, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A Yemeni hacker going with the handle of YMH defaces the official website of Egyptian Armed Forces Training Authority (mtc.edu.eg).
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
March 30, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The pro-Palestinian hacktivist AnonGhost hacks and defaces the official website of Israeli Agricultural Research Organization, which is ran by Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Pakistani Consulate in Jeddah
March 30, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle H4$N4!N H4XOR from Pakistan Haxor Crew hacks and defaces the official website of Pakistani consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia against corrupt government in the country.
Rafael Correa Twitter account
March 29, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The official Twitter account of Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael), the president of Ecuador, has been hijacked. Anonymous Ecuador hackers are apparently behind the attack.
Boxee
March 29, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.
Spec's
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
About 550,000 customers, as well as employees of Spec's may have had personal information compromised in a malware attack that impacted 34 locations (and dates back to Oct. 31, 2012).
Telecommunications Directorate
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers of the RedHack group have launched a cyberattack against the official website of Turkey's Telecommunications Directorate (tib.gov.tr) in response to the decision to ban YouTube and Twitter in the country.
University of Wisconsin Parkside
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
About 15,000 University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UW-Parkside) students are notified that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised by hackers who installed malware on a server.
Hootsuite
March 21, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hootsuite is the victim of a DDoS Attack.
University of Maryland, College Park
March 20, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Maryland, College Park suffers another cyberattack. The breach is unrelated to last month's cyberattack.
EA
March 19, 2014
•[ hack, social, phishing ]
One of Electronic Arts' servers is breached, allowing hackers to create a phony Apple log-in screen that prompts users for personal information.
CoinEX
March 19, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
CoinEX.pw confirms it recently suffered a hack resulting in the theft of all the bitcoins in its possession.
Toyota (Guatemala)
March 18, 2014
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
The Guatemala websites of Renault, Toyota and Chevrolet are hacked and defaced by a member of a Pakistani group called Team Cyber Criminals.
Julie Bishop
March 18, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The verified Twitter account of Julie Bishop, the Australian minister for foreign affairs, has been hacked. The attacker posted some tweets in an effort to lure Bishop's followers to a phishing site.
