Kickstarter
February 16, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Kickstarter announces that it has become aware of a security breach resulting in the loss of personal customer data like usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Potentially 5.6 million users have been affected.
Kickstarter
February 16, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.
United Socialist Party of Venezuela
February 15, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The verified Twitter account (@PartidoPSUV) of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is hacked by LulzSec Peru.
Silk Road
February 13, 2014
•[ hack, financial, retail ]
Using a known Bitcoin vulnerability the popular marketplace Silk Road is hacked, losing approximately 4,400 bitcoins, presently worth around $2.6 million.
ReadingRockets
February 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, education ]
DeleteSec hacks ReadingRockets.org and leaks around 5,800 accounts. Leaked credentials contain full names, addresses, contact information, email addresses and clear text passwords.
Presidential Adviser
February 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Again an action in name of Opindependence. This time Anonymous Ukraine hacks the e-mail account of Laurynas Jonavicius (adviser of the President of Lithuania), leaking some emails.
UK Government Communications Headquarters
February 12, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Even the website of the Government Communications Headquarters (gchq.gov.uk) is disrupted by a DDoS attack.
Bitstamp
February 12, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Bitcoin exchange service Bitstamp suspends withdrawals while dealing with a denial-of-service (DOS) attack.
Bitstamp
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Reuters reports that the virtual currency Bitcoin is being hit by attacks from unknown hackers sending "mutated" lines of code into the program that runs the virtual currency. Two exchanges, Bitstamp and Mt. Gox, are affected.
Cloudflare
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A distributed denial-of-service attack targeting Cloudflare reaches 400 gigabits per second,making it the largest DDoS attack ever recorded.
Supercell Facebook Pages
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
The Facebook pages of two games, Hay Day and Clash of Clans, developed by the Helsinki-based video game developer Supercell are hacked. The attack is executed by hijacking the emails of two Supercell employees.
Kars Municipality
February 10, 2014
•[ hack, government, education ]
The infamous RedHack collective joins the protests against the new Internet Law, and leak around two dozen records. They also deface a couple of local sites and hack the Ministry of Education.
Official website of the President of Nepal
February 8, 2014
•[ hack, leak, sqlinjection ]
Two separate attacks deface the official website of Nepal's Office of the President (presidentofnepal.gov.np). In the first case, the attacker who goes by Dr.3v1l, also leaked some information stolen from the DB. The second attack was carried out by an Indian hacker.
PrezidentBank
February 7, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
The official websites of two Turkmenistan state-owned commercial banks are hacked and defaced by Dr.Sha6h, to raise awareness of the situation in Syria. The victims are: Turkmenbashi Bank (tbbank.gov.tm), PrezidentBank (presidentbank.gov.tm).
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
February 6, 2014
•[ hack, espionage, technology ]
India launches an investigation after a media report alleged that Chinese telecoms company Huawei had hacked into state-run telecoms carrier BSNL.
MarkMonitor
February 6, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A failed attempt that's worth to be mentioned: the Syrian Electronic Army attempts to hack a number of high profile websites, including Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and Google, by hacking into the domain management service provider MarkMonitor.
St. Joseph Health System
February 5, 2014
•[ hack, healthcare ]
More than 400,000 patients and employees of St. Joseph Health System are notified that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and, in some cases, bank account information, may have been accessed following an attack on the health system's computer system.
Comcast
February 5, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The NullCrew collective claim to have successfully hacked Comcast, providing a link on Pastebin to unredacted information as evidence.
PayPal
February 5, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Hackers have compromised the eBay and PayPal marketing webpages in the UK, France, and India, causing some visitors to be redirected to fraudulent destinations.
Turkcell
February 4, 2014
•[ leak, hack, technology ]
Hackers of the RedHack group claim to have breached the systems of three major telecoms companies: TTNET, Vodafone and Turkcell. After the attack they leak the details of hundreds of individuals from TTNET and 5,000 Vodafone customers.
