Syrian Electronic Army
January 15, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Turkish hacking collective TurkGuvenligi defaces the Syrian Electronic Army's website.
AVG
January 15, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
19 official domains of AVG are defaced by different hackers from Indonesia and Pakistan.
North East King County Regional Public Safety Communication Agency (NORCOM)
January 14, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
North East King County Regional Public Safety Communication Agency (NORCOM), a company that provides emergency communication services to the public, fire and police agencies, admits it suffered a server breach in late December. 6,000 records are affected.
Xbox Twitter account
January 13, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
In the same campaign the Syrian Electronic Army hacks the Twitter Xbox Support account, the Xbox Twitter and Instagram, and Microsoft employees.
Various Government Websites
January 11, 2014
•[ hack, government ]
The Infamous RedHack collective hacks the country's Parliament, the Turkish Contractors Association, the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Neiman Marcus
January 11, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus admits to have suffered a data breach exposing customers' credit card information.
iiNet
January 10, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Australia's third-largest ISP, iiNet, launches a full investigation into a security breach of its TransACT network, believed to be affecting the email servers of one of its subsidiaries.
Verified
January 10, 2014
•[ hack ]
In January 2014, one of the largest communities of Eastern Europe cybercriminals known as "Verified" was hacked. The breach exposed nearly 17k users of the vBulletin forum including their personal messages and other potentially personally identifiable information.
The Straight Dope
January 9, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Straight Dope, the popular online question and answer newspaper column, advises users of its forum to change their passwords because the information might have been compromised in a recent attack targeted at the bulletin board.
Namibian Government Portal
January 8, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of OpFunKill the Anonymous take down the Namibia main Government portal gov.na
Directors Guild of Canada
January 7, 2014
•[ hack, leak ]
A hacker using the handle legionnare aka ObeySec has hacked the directors guild of Canada (dgc.ca) and leaks 2000+ usernames, email addresses and clear text passwords.
openSUSE
January 7, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The well-known Pakistani hacker H4x0r HuSsY hacks the official Forum of OpenSUSE, defacing it and allegedly compromising the account information of 79,500 registered users.
MMMOOO
January 6, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A group of hackers going by the name HitlerSec hack a Chinese mobile application MMMOOO (immmooo.com) and dump 85,753 email addresses and encrypted passwords.
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.
