DailyMotion
July 3, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Symantec reveals that the popular video sharing Dailymotion was compromised to redirect users to the Sweet Orange Exploit Kit.
Tails OS
June 30, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The official website of the Tails live operating system is defaced. The author of the hack, dubbed Sum Guy, claims to have done it by accident.
Reuters
June 22, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Syrian Electronic Army is back and hacks Reuters redirecting the users to a web page supporting the Syrian regime. However the hack was possible after allegedly compromising Taboola, the ad provider.
ESET
June 6, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The ESET Security Forum is hacked and the company confirms that account credentials of its roughly 2,700 members have been accessed by the attackers.
Point DNS
May 9, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Domain host Point DNS has been hammered with a high intensity DDoS attack on Friday, knocking servers out for hours.
Ground(ctrl)
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Ground(ctrl), a company which builds social networking sites and other services for musicians, begins notifying an undisclosed number of users that their personal information may have been exposed when the company's network was hacked.
Cryptome
June 25, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Whistle-blowing site Cryptome is left temporarily unavailable after its service provider NetSol stops routing traffic towards the site following the discovery of a suspect and probably malicious PHP file.
AT&T
June 16, 2014
•[ insider, technology ]
AT&T confirms that outside attackers (allegedly employees of one of AT&T's service providers) compromised the personal information of an undisclosed number of AT&T Mobility members.
Feedly
June 11, 2014
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
News aggregator Feedly is made inaccessible by a DDoS attack. Attackers demand a ransom to stop their crippling assault, which the company refuses to pay.
Avast
May 27, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The support forum of Avast is hacked. Attackers get access to cryptographically hashed passwords, usernames, and e-mail addresses for about 400,000 people.
Typepad
May 19, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Typepad, the famous blogging platform is under a sustained DDoS attack.
Move, Inc.
June 18, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Move, Inc. is hit by a major DDoS attack.
Synology NAS Boxes
June 13, 2014
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Dell SecureWorks reveals that unknown hackers were able to hijack Synology NAS Boxes for mining Dogecoin, reaping $620,000 in two months.
Evernote
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mobile and online note app Evernote was hit with a DDoS attack, taking its servers offline for several hours.
Deezer
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The French music service Deezer is struck by a DDoS attack, which remains unavailable during the weekend.
The Wall Street Journal
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, social, technology ]
The Syrian Electronic Army is back and hijacks a total of four Twitter accounts of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Orange
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
French telecommunications group Orange announces that a breach last month resulted in the theft of the personal information of 1.3 million of its customers, including phone numbers, dates of birth, and email addresses.
Kali
April 30, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A Libyan Hackers group called "The GreaT Team" (TGT) defaces the mailing list subdomain of Kali website (lists.kali.org).
askmen
June 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
askmen.com, a portal with more than 14 million readers in the US alone, is the victim of a mass-injection attack with multiple versions of the official website compromised to serve malware to its visitors.
Code Spaces
June 18, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Code Spaces, a code-hosting service abruptly closes after someone gains unauthorized access to its Amazon Web Service account and deletes most of the customer data. The company refused to pay a ransom after being extorted via a DDoS attack.
