Betfair
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Online poker rooms are under a DDoS attack. The victims are Betfair, Unibet, and PokerStars.
rediff
April 30, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
A Palestinian-friendly hacker going with the online handle HolaKo defaces a subdomain of rediff.com, a famous Indian news, information, shopping and entertainment web portal.
Pacnet
April 16, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Telstra notifies its customers of a data breach involving its Asian subsidiary Pacnet. Telstra is made aware of the breach on April 16, only after acquiring Pacnet.
The Jewish Press
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Gaza Team, a pro-Palestinian group of hackers, hacks The Jewish Press. The site displays a black backdrop with a man holding ISIS-type flag. The team vows to hack many more pro-Israel websites in the future.
Rossel
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Rossel, a Belgian media group, is the victim of a DDoS attack. One of Belgium's largest French-speaking newspapers, La Soir, along with others sites are affected and temporarily shut down. A new attack is executed the day after.
Xtube
March 25, 2015
•[ malware, technology ]
Another adult site used to distribute malware. This time the victim is Xtube, whose main page is compromised to redirect the user to a site hosting the Neutrino Exploit Kit.
Greatfire
March 20, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Chinese activist site Greatfire.org, which masks censored traffic into the country, suffers a DDoS attack that racks up $30,000 a day in server costs.
alhayat
April 13, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In name of #OpSaudi, the Yemen Cyber Army hacks alhayat.com and dumps 926 records including usernames and hashed passwords.
Linux Australia
April 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Linux Australia warns its members and conference attendees that their personal information may have fallen into the hands of online criminals, following a breach of the organisation's servers.
Puush
March 30, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The screen sharing platform Puush is hit by a cyber attack that injected malware into a server. Users are prompted to uninstall the app and change important passwords that were stored on PCs as well as those saved in major browsers.
Multiplay
March 30, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Some of the systems administered by Multiplay, a company hosting gaming events, are accessed by an unauthorized entity, which may have resulted in exposing users' account details.
Steam
March 24, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
A malicious user going by the handle of bluebunny14 exploits the open submission structure of Steam's Greenlight section to briefly hide malware links in cloned versions of five legitimate game pages.
EllisLab
March 24, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
EllisLab admits to have suffered a breach after hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to its servers via a PHP backdoor.
pvpserverin
March 28, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Ebu Duhan hacks pvpserverin.com and dumps 2,614 usernames and passwords.
domainstream
April 1, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
PH1K3 hacks domainstream.se and dumps 1,149 records with Personally Identifiable Information
Hostgator
March 31, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The pro-Bashar Al Assad hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army claim to have hacked popular hosting companies running under the Endurance International Group. The list of hacked hosting companies include Bluehost, Fastdomain, Hostgator, Hostmonster and Justhost.
Virgil Films
March 28, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
R3dm0v3 hacks virgilfilmsent.com and dumps 3,482 usernames and passwords.
Slack
March 27, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Slack announces on its corporate blog that it was hacked over the course of four days in February, and that some number of users' data was compromised. The breach releases email addresses and potentially phone numbers of its 500,000 users.
5elafa Book
March 12, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
5elafa Book', a pro-ISIS Facebook clone is forced offline after just a day; and a linked Twitter account was shut down by supporters of the Anonymous collective.
DhakaFM904
March 11, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks dhakafm904.com (a web radio) and dumps 1,149 records with usernames and hashed passwords.
