Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
March 30, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The pro-Palestinian hacktivist AnonGhost hacks and defaces the official website of Israeli Agricultural Research Organization, which is ran by Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Pakistani Consulate in Jeddah
March 30, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle H4$N4!N H4XOR from Pakistan Haxor Crew hacks and defaces the official website of Pakistani consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia against corrupt government in the country.
Rafael Correa Twitter account
March 29, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The official Twitter account of Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael), the president of Ecuador, has been hijacked. Anonymous Ecuador hackers are apparently behind the attack.
Boxee
March 29, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.
Spec's
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
About 550,000 customers, as well as employees of Spec's may have had personal information compromised in a malware attack that impacted 34 locations (and dates back to Oct. 31, 2012).
Telecommunications Directorate
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers of the RedHack group have launched a cyberattack against the official website of Turkey's Telecommunications Directorate (tib.gov.tr) in response to the decision to ban YouTube and Twitter in the country.
University of Wisconsin Parkside
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
About 15,000 University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UW-Parkside) students are notified that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised by hackers who installed malware on a server.
Hootsuite
March 21, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hootsuite is the victim of a DDoS Attack.
University of Maryland, College Park
March 20, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Maryland, College Park suffers another cyberattack. The breach is unrelated to last month's cyberattack.
EA
March 19, 2014
•[ hack, social, phishing ]
One of Electronic Arts' servers is breached, allowing hackers to create a phony Apple log-in screen that prompts users for personal information.
CoinEX
March 19, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
CoinEX.pw confirms it recently suffered a hack resulting in the theft of all the bitcoins in its possession.
Toyota (Guatemala)
March 18, 2014
•[ hack, manufacturing ]
The Guatemala websites of Renault, Toyota and Chevrolet are hacked and defaced by a member of a Pakistani group called Team Cyber Criminals.
Julie Bishop
March 18, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The verified Twitter account of Julie Bishop, the Australian minister for foreign affairs, has been hacked. The attacker posted some tweets in an effort to lure Bishop's followers to a phishing site.
Citroen
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Citroen joins the list of the victims of the ColdFusion Vulnerability. The Guardian reveals that one of the carmaker's German websites was hacked to include a backdoor.
Syrian National Coalition
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The Syrian Electronic Army breaches and defaces the official website of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (etilaf.org). A number of other sites related to the organization have also been targeted.
Valley View Hospital
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, financial, malware ]
Social Security numbers and payment card data is among the personal information that may have been compromised for about 5,400 patients of Colorado-based Valley View Hospital after a computer virus was identified on some hospital computers.
Russian Industrial Investment Fund
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists of the Russian Cyber Command (@Rucyborg) claim to have hacked the computer of Alexandr Bagnuk, the president of the Russian Industrial Investment Fund, a semi-governmental investment company established by a decree of the president of Russia.
Church of Cyprus
March 5, 2014
•[ hack, leak ]
The hacker @security_511 hacks the Church of Cyprus website (churchofcyprus.org.cy) and dumps 1,476 user account credentials with full names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.
Sears
February 28, 2014
•[ hack, retail ]
Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD), investigates a possible security breach after the trail of cyberattacks on other retailers (such as Target).
maidansupport
February 28, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hacktivists continue to launch attacks against Ukrainian government websites. The latest targets are the sites of the parliament, or the Verkhovna Rada (rada.gov.ua), the Right Sector nationalist movement (banderivets.org.ua), but also some Euromaidan websites.
