Battlefield Heroes
June 26, 2011
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2011 as part of a final breached data dump, the hacker collective "LulzSec" obtained and released over half a million usernames and passwords from the game Battlefield Heroes. The passwords were stored as MD5 hashes with no salt and many were easily converted back to their plain text versions.
Sony
June 2, 2011
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In 2011, Sony suffered breach after breach after breach — it was a very bad year for them. The breaches spanned various areas of the business ranging from the PlayStation network all the way through to the motion picture arm, Sony Pictures. A SQL Injection vulnerability in sonypictures.com lead to tens of thousands of accounts across multiple systems being exposed complete with plain text passwords.
QIP
June 1, 2011
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2011, the Russian instant messaging service known as QIP (Quiet Internet Pager) suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of over 26 million unique accounts including email addresses and passwords with the data eventually appearing in public years later.
Fling
March 10, 2011
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2011, the self-proclaimed "World's Best Adult Social Network" website known as Fling was hacked and more than 40 million accounts obtained by the attacker. The breached data included highly sensitive personal attributes such as sexual orientation and sexual interests as well as email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development
January 1, 2011
•[ hack, malware, government ]
hacked with a trojan
Oregon Department of Transportation
January 1, 2011
•[ hack, government ]
hacked
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
January 1, 2011
•[ hack, government ]
hacked
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
January 1, 2011
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
Bethesda Game Studios
January 1, 2011
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
China Software Developer Network
January 1, 2011
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
Chinese gaming websites (three: Duowan, 7K7K, 178.com)
January 1, 2011
•[ hack ]
hacked
Citigroup
January 1, 2011
•[ hack, finance ]
hacked
