askmen
June 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
askmen.com, a portal with more than 14 million readers in the US alone, is the victim of a mass-injection attack with multiple versions of the official website compromised to serve malware to its visitors.
Black Hat World
June 23, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In June 2014, the search engine optimisation forum Black Hat World had three quarters of a million accounts breached from their system. The breach included various personally identifiable attributes which were publicly released in a MySQL database script.
British Gas
June 22, 2014
•[ hack, energy ]
British Gas' support team Twitter account (@BritishGasHelp) is hacked and starts posting very strange tweets.
PTV Sports
June 22, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers going with the handle of Pakistan Haxors Crew deface the official website of state owned PTV Sports (sports.ptv.com.pk) to protest against killings and police brutality.
Reuters
June 22, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Syrian Electronic Army is back and hacks Reuters redirecting the users to a web page supporting the Syrian regime. However the hack was possible after allegedly compromising Taboola, the ad provider.
Governor of Arizona
June 21, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
After hacking the Arizona Department of Homeland Security, the Turkish hacker Swan is back, and this time he defaces two official websites of Arizona State Governor Janice K. Brewer.
Pakistan Electric Power Company
June 21, 2014
•[ hack, energy ]
The official website of Pakistan Electric Power Company Limited (pepco.gov.pk) is defaced by a group of Pakistani hackers called Pakistan Haxors Crew in protest against police brutality.
Sumo Torrent
June 21, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2014, the torrent site Sumo Torrent was hacked and 285k member records were exposed. The data included IP addresses, email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes.
Metropolitan Companies, Inc.
June 20, 2014
•[ hack ]
About 8,500 notification letters are sent out to individuals employed by, or who submitted an application to, The Metropolitan Companies, Inc., alerting them that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to their personal information.
Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment
June 20, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) is the victim of a targeted attack carried on through a specifically crafted malware distributed via a spear phishing campaign.
Code Spaces
June 18, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Code Spaces, a code-hosting service abruptly closes after someone gains unauthorized access to its Amazon Web Service account and deletes most of the customer data. The company refused to pay a ransom after being extorted via a DDoS attack.
Move, Inc.
June 18, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Move, Inc. is hit by a major DDoS attack.
ancestry
June 18, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, retail ]
The genealogy site ancestry.com has been blasted off the internet after reportedly being hit by a DDoS attack.
Regional Electoral Court of the Amazon
June 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
As part of #OpWorldCup and #OpHackingCup, Anonymous hacks a number of Brazilian organizations during the World Cup.
INVALSI
June 15, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker illegitimately accesses the systems of INVALSI, the public Italian System for School Assessment. This happens few days before the official start of the assessments affecting 600,000 students.
Domino's Pizza
June 13, 2014
•[ ransomware, hack, retail ]
Rex Mundi claim to have managed to breach the systems of Domino's Pizza in Belgium and France and obtained access to more than 592,000 records belonging to French customers and over 58,000 records belonging to Belgians. They ask for a ransom in exchange.
Undisclosed online gambling website
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos ]
Cloud-based security services provider Incapsula states to have fought off a 100 Gbps DDoS attack against an online gambling website.
Deezer
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The French music service Deezer is struck by a DDoS attack, which remains unavailable during the weekend.
Evernote
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mobile and online note app Evernote was hit with a DDoS attack, taking its servers offline for several hours.
Placemark Investments
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
Placemark Investments begins notifying an undisclosed number of clients that their personal information may have been exposed when one of its servers was breached.
