West Bengal Public Health Engineering Department
February 4, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
West Bengal's Public Health Engineering Department (wbphed.gov.in) is attacked and defaced by a group of Pakistani hacktivists demanding to "free Kashmir" among other things.
Federal Customs Service
February 3, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The official English language website of Russia's Federal Customs Service (eng.customs.ru) is defaced by members of Team MaXiMiZerS.
Orange
February 3, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Orange confirms that hackers accessed the personal data of three percent of Orange's customers in France (corresponding to about 800,000 users), using the 'My Account' section of orange.fr. The attack took place on 16 January.
National Health Service
February 3, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
A coding error on the official website of the United Kingdom's National Health Service (nhs.uk) is abused to implant malicious code on more than 800 pages.
Olmsted Medical Center
February 3, 2014
•[ hack, healthcare ]
The employee database of the Olmsted Medical Center is unlawfully accessed, exposing the information of about 500 employees.
Ateneo Integrated Student Information System
February 2, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
A group identified as "Pinoy Anonymouz" defaces the website of the Ateneo Integrated Student Information System (AISIS).
Carlo Ancelotti
February 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Twitter account of Carlo Ancelotti (@MrAncelotti), the manager of the Spanish football team Real Madrid, has been hacked.
Various Government Websites
February 1, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists from Ukrainian neo-fascist Svoboda party deface more than 30 Ukrainian government and media websites.
Bell Canada
February 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The hacking group NullCrew AKA @NullCrew_FTS claims to have successfully hacked Bell Canada (bell.ca). As a consequence 40,000 credentials are leaked.
Experian
January 30, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
Experian notifies that an unauthorized access to the consumers' credit reports in Experian's database occurred between January 30 and January 31, and would have involved name and address as well as one or more of date of birth, Social Security numbers, account information, and whatever information you'd find in a credit report.
Ministry of Police Affairs
January 30, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The official website of Nigeria's Ministry of Police Affairs (policeaffairs.gov.ng) is breached and defaced by hackers of the Nigerian Cyber Army.
State Industrial Products
January 30, 2014
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
The FBI alerts State Industrial Products that the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of 500-1000 current and former employees may be at risk after an unauthorized party gained access to the information.
Sao Paulo State Government
January 28, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A hacker affiliated with the Anonymous hacks the official email account belonging to the press and communication department of Sao Paulo state government (saopaulo.sp.gov.br/).
Board of Control for Cricket in India
January 27, 2014
•[ hack ]
A Bangladeshi hacker called Ashik Iqbal Chy defaces the official website of Indian cricket's Governing body (bcci.tv) to protest against takeover proposal.
Indian Railways
January 27, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Another episode of the Cyber War between India and Pakistan. The official website of the Indian Railways is once again defaced by Pakistani Hackers.
GitHub
January 27, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
GitHub is taken down by a DDoS Attack.
Israeli Defense Ministry
January 26, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Earlier in January, unknown hackers break into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software looking like it had been sent by the country's Shin Bet secret security service.
US Federal Court System
January 25, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Several websites of the US federal court system, including the ones of the United States Courts (uscourts.gov) and Public Access to Court Electronic Records (pacer.gov), are taken down by a DDOS attack.
CNN
January 24, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Syrian Electronic Army hacks several accounts belonging to CNN. Targets include: CNN's main Facebook account, CNN Politics' Facebook account and the Twitter pages for CNN and CNN's Security Clearance. Blogs for Political Ticker, The Lead, Security Clearance, The Situation Room and Crossfire were also hacked.
Youth for Achievements
January 23, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Azerbaijan Hackers from Anti-Armenia Team have hacked and defaced several Armenian government ministries websites.
