Delta Airlines
February 10, 2015
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Delta Air Lines admits that its Facebook page has been hacked, posting "objectionable and offensive content ".
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.
ExtraTorrent
January 11, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Extratorrent, the world's number 4 torrent website is taken down by a DDOS attack.
Lizard Squad
January 16, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
LizardStresser[dot]ru, the stresser service (DDoS-for-hire) created by the infamous LizardSquad, is allegedly hacked, revealing the details of its 14,241 users.
ansar-alhaqq
January 12, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
In the name of OpCharlieHebdo, the Anonymous claim to have take down the first pro-Jihadist site ansar-alhaqq.net. The site is only the first of a list of Islamist sites allegedly taken down by the hacktivists.
Orange Spain
January 5, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Linker Squad claims to have hacked 10 million user records from Orange Spain.
8chan
January 8, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The infamous Lizard Squad takes credit for a DDoS attack against the imageboard site 8chan.
TF1
January 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers from Linker Squad claim to have stolen confidential data relating to almost 2 million online shoppers in France who made purchases via the French TV station website TF1.fr.
Le Monde
January 20, 2015
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Yet another victim of the Syrian Electronic Army. The Twitter account of the French newspaper Le Monde is hacked and posts a polemic tweet "Je ne suis pas Charlie".
New York Post
January 17, 2015
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
A total of six fake messages are posted from the Twitter accounts of New York Post and United Press International (UPI) by unknown individuals.
TravelWest
January 2, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Darkshadow, the member of Arab Security Team, a group of pro-Al Qaeda hackers, defaces a local journey planner website (TravelWest around Bristol), maybe believing to have targeted a major international travel website.
Apple iCloud
October 20, 2014
•[ espionage, misconfiguration, technology ]
GreatFire.org, a group that monitors censorship by the Chinese government's national firewall system, reports that China is using the system as part of a man-in-the-middle attack on users of Apple's iCloud service within the country.
Snapsaved
October 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Snapsaved.com, a third-party application that allows Snapchat users to save images and videos sent over the service online, is hacked, as a consequence 13 gigabytes of stolen images are posted online.
Difference Games
January 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Zyklon hacks differencegames.com and dumps 1,804 usernames and clear text passwords.
Pandora TV Co. Ltd.
October 21, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Pandora TV Co. Ltd., the South Korea-based operator of the country's biggest video sharing website, lost 114,707 pieces of personal information during two confirmed intrusions in September. The investigation suggests that 7.4 million pieces of personal information were affected.
Popular Science
October 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Websense detects that the official website of Popular Science (popsci.com) is compromised, serving malicious code.
Ello
September 29, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The social network Ello is the target of a DDoS attack.
jQuery
September 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
RiskIQ detects a credential-stealing malware being loaded onto users computers through a drive-by download at jQuery.com. The attack was carried out using RIG exploit kit to target visitors.
Freenode
September 15, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Popular IRC network Freenode suffers a security breach and asks users to change their passwords, as they might have been compromised.
Hewlett Packard
October 10, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Hewlett-Packard alerts some customers that it will be revoking a digital certificate used to sign a huge swath of software, including hardware drivers and other software, since it had been used to digitally sign malware that had infected a developer's PC.
