Citroen
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Citroen joins the list of the victims of the ColdFusion Vulnerability. The Guardian reveals that one of the carmaker's German websites was hacked to include a backdoor.
Syrian National Coalition
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The Syrian Electronic Army breaches and defaces the official website of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (etilaf.org). A number of other sites related to the organization have also been targeted.
Valley View Hospital
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, financial, malware ]
Social Security numbers and payment card data is among the personal information that may have been compromised for about 5,400 patients of Colorado-based Valley View Hospital after a computer virus was identified on some hospital computers.
Russian Industrial Investment Fund
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists of the Russian Cyber Command (@Rucyborg) claim to have hacked the computer of Alexandr Bagnuk, the president of the Russian Industrial Investment Fund, a semi-governmental investment company established by a decree of the president of Russia.
Church of Cyprus
March 5, 2014
•[ hack, leak ]
The hacker @security_511 hacks the Church of Cyprus website (churchofcyprus.org.cy) and dumps 1,476 user account credentials with full names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.
Sears
February 28, 2014
•[ hack, retail ]
Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD), investigates a possible security breach after the trail of cyberattacks on other retailers (such as Target).
maidansupport
February 28, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists continue to launch attacks against Ukrainian government websites. The latest targets are the sites of the parliament, or the Verkhovna Rada (rada.gov.ua), the Right Sector nationalist movement (banderivets.org.ua), but also some Euromaidan websites.
Bulk Reef Supply
February 27, 2014
•[ hack, retail ]
Saltwater aquarium supplies seller Bulk Reef Supply (bulkreefsupply.com) announces that its website was compromised for about six months, and the company is notifying an undisclosed number of customers that their personal data, including credit card information, may have been compromised.
Various Government Websites
February 26, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Anonymous hackers once again target several websites of the Philippines government. The hacktivists are protesting against a provision of the Cybercrime Prevention Act that violates freedom of speech.
Griminal
February 24, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Rapper Griminal's Twitter account is hacked and posts suicidal tweets, worrying his fans.
International Council of E-Commerce Consultants
February 23, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
The website for EC-Council, an International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, is defacedby a hacker calling himself Eugene Belford. He defaces the site with the passport of Edward Snowden.
Spirol
February 22, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, manufacturing ]
In February 2014, Connecticut based Spirol Fastening Solutions suffered a data breach that exposed over 70,000 customer records. The attack was allegedly mounted by exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability which yielded data from Spirols CRM system ranging from customers names, companies, contact information and over 55,000 unique email addresses.
Church of Scotland
February 21, 2014
•[ hack ]
Yet another attack by @security_511. This time the victim is the Church of Scotland (churchofscotland.org.uk) and the dumps contains 1,570 user credentials.
Energie Steiermark
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, energy ]
Energie Steiermark, an energy company in Austria's Styria province, put out a notice that they have been hacked.
Namecheap
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Web-hosting service Namecheap is hit with one of the largest distributed-denial-of-service attacks affecting roughly 300 domain names hosted by Namecheap.
UN Internet Governance Forum
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, leak, government ]
In February 2014, the Internet Governance Forum (formed by the United Nations for policy dialogue on issues of internet governance) was attacked by hacker collective known as Deletesec. Although tasked with "ensuring the security and stability of the Internet", the IGFs website was still breached and resulted in the leak of 3,200 email addresses, names, usernames and cryptographically stored passwords.
Texas State Technical College
February 19, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Texas State Technical College (tstc.edu) Waco notifies almost 3,000 former students and fewer than 2,000 employees that personal information may have been compromised after an unauthorized party remotely gained access to a server that contained the data.
National Portal of India
February 19, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers of ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC) hack india.gov.in, the National Portal of India, posting a message in favor of Kashmir.
University of Maryland, College Park
February 19, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Maryland announces that a database containing 309,079 records of faculty, staff, students and affiliated personnel from the College Park and Shady Grove campuses has been breached.
Muslim Directory
February 17, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker using the handle @th3inf1d3l announces a leak of data from muslimdirectory.co.uk resulting in 38,903 user credentials being leaked online.
