Unknown Organization
July 5, 2015
•[ financial, misconfiguration, technology ]
Primedice, an online gaming/gambling site loses $1 million in bitcoin to an attacker who exploited its random number generation (RNG) system.
Fort Collins Streets Department
June 14, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Another example of a road sign hacked.
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.
Missing Link Networks
June 10, 2015
•[ financial, misconfiguration, retail ]
Missing Link Networks Inc, a credit card processor and point-of-sale vendor, reveals that a breach of its networks exposed card data for transactions it processed in the month of April 2015.
Los Angeles County Public Works
June 9, 2015
•[ hack, government, misconfiguration ]
A downtown Los Angeles digital traffic sign is hacked to state "Read a fu***ng book."
Intimacy Bra Fit Stylists
June 4, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
Lingerie seller Intimacy Bra Fit Stylists notifies an undisclosed number of individuals that its e-commerce server was compromised and that personal information may have been misappropriated.
Uber
June 15, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A website hosting an Uber petition (petition.uber.org) calling on local government to allow its drivers to work on San Francisco's Market Street is defaced by a seemingly well-intentioned blogger, who also inserts a banner that automatically redirects visitors to a competitor's site.
Atlanta Department of Public Works
May 14, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
Unknown attackers hack a billboard in Atlanta and replace a video with several images from Goatse, one of the internet's original shock sites.
Retail Capital
May 5, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Retail Capital notifies more than 700 individuals that unauthorized access was gained to the electronic mailbox of a sales manager, and personal information may have been compromised.
Mauthausen Nazi Camp
May 8, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
The memorial website of the Nazi Mauthausen camp in Austria is defaced with child pornography image materials.
lumensfactory
March 29, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
Histeria hacks lumensfactory.com and dumps 2,550 usernames and clear text passwords.
Rapides Parish Police Jury
March 7, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The actions of the hacktivist group AnonGhost are not isolated: now they deface the official website of the state of Louisiana Rapides Parish Police Jury, Southern Heritage Bank and Churchill Banks.
Larimer County Sheriff's Office
March 6, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
And for the second time in a week, the Anonghost deface, once again, the official website of Colorado's Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
British Telecom
March 13, 2015
•[ espionage, misconfiguration, technology ]
Internet traffic for 167 important British Telecom customers, including a UK defense contractor that helps deliver the country's nuclear warhead program, are mysteriously diverted to servers in Ukraine before being passed along to their final destination.
Chile Ministry of Defense
February 26, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
An anonymous ISIS supporter defaces Chile's Ministry of Defense website (ssdefensa.cl).
Haskell
February 16, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Haskell, an advanced purely functional programming language, confirms a security breach in its Debian Builds component (deb.haskell.org).
Victor Valley College
January 31, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
The entire Victor Valley College Information Technology Department is placed on paid administrative leave while campus police and an outside company investigate a breach in security protocol.
Hope FM
January 28, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Suspected hackers briefly hijack Hope FM, a popular Christian radio station in Kenya, and play Islamic verses before it went off air.
Microsoft Outlook
January 19, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Online censorship watchdog Greatfire.org receives reports related to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack against Outlook users in China.
Nigerian Defence Headquarters
January 24, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) information blog site, defenceinfo.mil.ng is defaced.
