What.cd
January 6, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Three of the largest private BitTorrent trackers are offline due to prolonged DDoS attacks. The targets are: What.cd, Broadcasthe.net, PassthePopcorn.me.
World of Warcraft
January 6, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
World of Warcraft players are hit with a malicious trojan that hijacks accounts. The malware infects systems by posing as an installer of Curse, a legitimate add-on.
WPT Amateur Poker League
January 4, 2014
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In January 2014, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Amateur Poker League website was hacked by the Twitter user @smitt3nz. The attack resulted in the public disclosure of 175,000 accounts including 148,000 email addresses. The plain text password for each account was also included in the breach.
Financial Services Online
January 3, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
A group of Pakistani hackers called Pakiz Cyber Squad hacks Financial Services Online (financialservicesonline.com.au), and dumps 527 affiliate account credentials.
Barry University
January 1, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Barry University notifies patients of its Foot and Ankle Institute that their medical records and personal information may have been hacked by a malware found in May.
ReverbNation
January 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In January 2014, the online service for assisting musicians to build their careers ReverbNation suffered a data breach which wasn't identified until September the following year. The breach contained over 7 million accounts with unique email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords.
HiAPK
January 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately 2014, it's alleged that the Chinese Android store known as HIAPK suffered a data breach that impacted 13.8 million unique subscribers. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes and was provided to HIBP by white hat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
European Central Bank
January 1, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
hacked
University of Maryland, College Park
January 1, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
