CoinCut
July 23, 2015
•[ leak, finance ]
UK bitcoin exchange CoinCut is investigating a possible data breach which exposed sensitive customer information including passport and card data to the public.
Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board
July 22, 2015
•[ hack, leak, government ]
Hackers from the Anonymous collective break into the network of the tribunal that adjudicates disputes between public servants and the federal government and dump 3856 records.
captain69
July 19, 2015
•[ leak ]
@ElSurveillance continues his battle against websites that promote escorts. This time the target is captain69.co.uk and the leaked records are about 2600.
Ashley Madison
July 19, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the infidelity website Ashley Madison suffered a serious data breach. The attackers threatened Ashley Madison with the full disclosure of the breach unless the service was shut down. One month later, the database was dumped including more than 30M unique email addresses. This breach has been classed as "sensitive" and is not publicly searchable, although individuals may discover if they've been impacted by registering for notifications. Read about this approach in detail.
Soundwave
July 16, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid 2015, the music tracking app Soundwave suffered a data breach. The breach stemmed from an incident whereby "production data had been used to populate the test database" and was then inadvertently exposed in a MongoDB. The data contained 130k records and included email addresses, dates of birth, genders and MD5 hashes of passwords without a salt.
WildStar
July 11, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the IP.Board forum for the gaming website WildStar suffered a data breach that exposed over 738k forum members' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and passwords.
British Columbia Conservation
July 10, 2015
•[ leak, government ]
Unknown hackers affiliated with the collective Anonymous release a string of emails that appear to show a conservation officer defending his decision to refuse to kill two black bear cubs on Vancouver Island.
myRepoSpace
July 6, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the Cydia repository known as myRepoSpace was hacked and user data leaked publicly. Cydia is designed to facilitate the installation of apps on jailbroken iOS devices. The repository service was allegedly hacked by @its_not_herpes and 0x8badfl00d in retaliation for the service refusing to remove pirated tweaks.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
July 4, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In name of OpIndia, AnonOpsindia, a group affiliated to the Anonymous collective hacks BSNL and claims to have siphoned the entire database, which has sensitive information of over 30 million users.
CheapAssGamer.com
July 1, 2015
•[ leak, sqlinjection, technology ]
In approximately mid-2015, the forum for CheapAssGamer.com suffered a data breach. The database from the IP.Board based forum contained 445k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
North Dakota Workforce and Safety Institute
June 10, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, government ]
Approximately 43,000 incident reports and 13,000 payroll reports are compromised in a breach of a North Dakota Workforce and Safety Institute (WSI) server, after the North Dakota Information Technology Department (ITD) detected unusual activity.
Westnet
June 6, 2015
•[ leak, hack, technology ]
Australia's third-largest internet service provider, iiNet, investigates claims that a database held by its subsidiary, Westnet, has been hacked and is being offered for sale by a hacker dubbed Mufasa.
Japan universal public pension system
May 28, 2015
•[ hack, leak, government ]
The organization that manages Japan's universal public pension system confirms that approximately 1.25 million personal records are compromised by hackers in a recent targeted attack. Blue Termite, an alleged Chinese threat actor, may be responsible.
brief
May 26, 2015
•[ hack, leak, healthcare ]
An anonymous hacker hacks brief.org.uk and dumps 7,800 usernames and passwords.
Italian Ministry of Defense
May 19, 2015
•[ leak, hack, government ]
After the Expo, the Italian Anonymous target the Italian Ministry of Defense (difesa.it), and leak a list of 1,700 accounts.
Wayne County Sheriff's Deparment
May 18, 2015
•[ leak, government ]
In name of OpUSA, the online hacktivists AnonGhost deface the official website of Wayne Country Sheriff's department (sheriff.co.wayne.in.us/) and leak its database containing login credentials of its employees.
Gaadi
May 14, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In May 2015, the Indian motoring website known as Gaadi had 4.3 million records exposed in a data breach. The data contained usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, the city of users as well as passwords stored in both plain text and as MD5 hashes. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
Спрашивай.ру
May 11, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In May 2015, . (a the Russian website for anonymous reviews) was reported to have had 6.7 million user details exposed by a hacker known as "w0rm". Intended to be a site for expressing anonymous opinions, the leaked data included email addresses, birth dates and other personally identifiable data about almost 3.5 million unique email addresses found in the leak.
euromilhoes
May 8, 2015
•[ hack, leak, government ]
A hacker called Fokinz hacks euromilhoes.com and dumps 19,352 usernames and passwords.
Bettys
May 8, 2015
•[ leak, manufacturing ]
120,000 online Bettys customers have their personal details accessed following a data breach due to an industry-wide software weakness.
