Cyberoam
December 31, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Security firm Cyberoam confirms a cyber attack on its systems last week, resulting in possible leakage of its database containing personal details of one million records of customers and partners. Apparently the author of the attack is trying to sell the database on the dark web for 100 bitcoin.
Sanrio Digital
December 21, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
Chris Vickery, a security researcher discovers a leaked database of more than 3.3 million user accounts for Sanriotown.com and other Sanrio-owned websites like hellokitty.com and mymelody.com.
Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations
December 19, 2015
•[ leak, government ]
Armenian hackers from the Monte Melkonian Cyber Army hack the official websites of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and leak a trove of sensitive documents belonging to local citizens.
Nexus Mods
December 8, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Nexus Mods announces a potential database breach. The breach includes information for about 6 million users, but the database that was breached was last updated on July 22nd, 2013.
TuneCore
December 3, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Tunecore is breached. The company reveals that the data that may have been accessed includes names, email, addresses, mailing addresses, account numbers, and passwords.
Invest Bank
November 25, 2015
•[ hack, leak, ransomware ]
A hacker called Hacker Buba hacks into Invest Bank and holds it to ransom, demanding $3M, and leaking confidential data of clients on Twitter every few hours.
Linux Australia
November 22, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Linux Australia allegedly suffers a second leak of data from its servers, according to a message sent to its main mailing list by president Joshua Hesketh.
MajorGeeks
November 15, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In November 2015, almost 270k accounts from the MajorGeeks support forum were breached. The accounts were being actively sold and traded online and included email addresses, salted password hashes and IP addresses.
Securus Technologies
November 11, 2015
•[ leak, government ]
An anonymous hacker leaks a vast collection containing metadata of over 70 million records of phone calls placed by prisoners to at least 37 US states and links to actual recordings for each call. The calls, allegedly leaked from Securus Technologies, span from December 2011 to the spring of 2014.
Spotify
November 10, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Newsweek reveals that over one thousand email addresses and passwords from the musing streaming app Spotify were leaked following a hack.
TAFE Queensland
November 10, 2015
•[ leak, education ]
TAFE Queensland has experienced a breach that has seen the personal details of thousands of the state's TAFE students exposed.
Comcast
November 8, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, the US internet and cable TV provider Comcast suffered a data breach that exposed 590k customer email addresses and plain text passwords. A further 27k accounts appeared with home addresses with the entire data set being sold on underground forums.
Ancestry
November 7, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, an Ancestry service known as RootsWeb suffered a data breach. The breach was not discovered until late 2017 when a file containing almost 300k email addresses and plain text passwords was identified.
Ku Klux Klan
November 6, 2015
•[ hack, leak ]
Hacking collective Anonymous has released the identities of 1000 KKK members online.
InterPals
November 4, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In late 2015, the online penpal site InterPals had their website hacked and 3.4 million accounts exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, geographical locations, birthdates and salted hashes of passwords.
Abandonia (2015)
November 1, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, the gaming website dedicated to classic DOS games Abandonia suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 776k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
Mac-Torrents
October 31, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no salt.
