Bulk Reef Supply
February 27, 2014
•[ hack, retail ]
Saltwater aquarium supplies seller Bulk Reef Supply (bulkreefsupply.com) announces that its website was compromised for about six months, and the company is notifying an undisclosed number of customers that their personal data, including credit card information, may have been compromised.
Various Government Websites
February 26, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Anonymous hackers once again target several websites of the Philippines government. The hacktivists are protesting against a provision of the Cybercrime Prevention Act that violates freedom of speech.
Griminal
February 24, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Rapper Griminal's Twitter account is hacked and posts suicidal tweets, worrying his fans.
International Council of E-Commerce Consultants
February 23, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
The website for EC-Council, an International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, is defacedby a hacker calling himself Eugene Belford. He defaces the site with the passport of Edward Snowden.
Spirol
February 22, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, manufacturing ]
In February 2014, Connecticut based Spirol Fastening Solutions suffered a data breach that exposed over 70,000 customer records. The attack was allegedly mounted by exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability which yielded data from Spirols CRM system ranging from customers names, companies, contact information and over 55,000 unique email addresses.
Church of Scotland
February 21, 2014
•[ hack ]
Yet another attack by @security_511. This time the victim is the Church of Scotland (churchofscotland.org.uk) and the dumps contains 1,570 user credentials.
Energie Steiermark
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, energy ]
Energie Steiermark, an energy company in Austria's Styria province, put out a notice that they have been hacked.
Namecheap
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Web-hosting service Namecheap is hit with one of the largest distributed-denial-of-service attacks affecting roughly 300 domain names hosted by Namecheap.
UN Internet Governance Forum
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, leak, government ]
In February 2014, the Internet Governance Forum (formed by the United Nations for policy dialogue on issues of internet governance) was attacked by hacker collective known as Deletesec. Although tasked with "ensuring the security and stability of the Internet", the IGFs website was still breached and resulted in the leak of 3,200 email addresses, names, usernames and cryptographically stored passwords.
Texas State Technical College
February 19, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Texas State Technical College (tstc.edu) Waco notifies almost 3,000 former students and fewer than 2,000 employees that personal information may have been compromised after an unauthorized party remotely gained access to a server that contained the data.
National Portal of India
February 19, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
Hackers of ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC) hack india.gov.in, the National Portal of India, posting a message in favor of Kashmir.
University of Maryland, College Park
February 19, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Maryland announces that a database containing 309,079 records of faculty, staff, students and affiliated personnel from the College Park and Shady Grove campuses has been breached.
Muslim Directory
February 17, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker using the handle @th3inf1d3l announces a leak of data from muslimdirectory.co.uk resulting in 38,903 user credentials being leaked online.
Kickstarter
February 16, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Kickstarter announces that it has become aware of a security breach resulting in the loss of personal customer data like usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Potentially 5.6 million users have been affected.
Kickstarter
February 16, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.
United Socialist Party of Venezuela
February 15, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The verified Twitter account (@PartidoPSUV) of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is hacked by LulzSec Peru.
Silk Road
February 13, 2014
•[ hack, financial, retail ]
Using a known Bitcoin vulnerability the popular marketplace Silk Road is hacked, losing approximately 4,400 bitcoins, presently worth around $2.6 million.
ReadingRockets
February 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, education ]
DeleteSec hacks ReadingRockets.org and leaks around 5,800 accounts. Leaked credentials contain full names, addresses, contact information, email addresses and clear text passwords.
Presidential Adviser
February 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Again an action in name of Opindependence. This time Anonymous Ukraine hacks the e-mail account of Laurynas Jonavicius (adviser of the President of Lithuania), leaking some emails.
UK Government Communications Headquarters
February 12, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Even the website of the Government Communications Headquarters (gchq.gov.uk) is disrupted by a DDoS attack.
