Red Granite Pictures
July 30, 2015
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Red Granite Pictures, claims in a new lawsuit that it has been the subject of a malicious hack that has allowed the attackers to intimidate employees and disrupt its business via a mass emails campaign.
Voat
July 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Voat, the news aggregator, is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Telegram
July 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Popular messaging platform Telegram is hit with a 200Gbps distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Users in Asia, Australia, and Oceania are prevented from using the service.
Daybreak Games
July 10, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Daybreak Game Company is hit witha DDoS after its CEO threatens convicted Lizard Squad hacker Julius Kivimaki.
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.
Hacking Team
July 5, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Hacking Team, the Italian company behind the infamous surveillance software is hacked. The attacker, allegedly the same author behind the attack on Gamma International (another surveillance software) dumps approximately 400Gb of data by hijacking the Hacking Team Twitter account.
Envato
July 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Envato, the network of marketplaces is under a two week-long DDoS attack.
New Jersey Online Casinos
July 6, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
A hacker shuts down four New Jersey Internet gambling sites and threatens more cyberattacks over unless a ransom in BTC is paid.
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.
Islam Channel
July 1, 2015
•[ espionage, technology ]
A threat actor compromised Islam Channel, a small UK TV station, in July 2015. In October 2018, the United Kingdom publicly attributed the compromise to Russian military intelligence.
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.
Kaspersky Lab
June 10, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
Kaspersky discoveres an advanced attack on its own internal networks. The company is confident that there's a nation state behind it and calls the malware Duqu 2.0.
Freeparking
June 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Freeparking, a web hosting provider, is the target of a severe DDoS attack.
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.
Hex-Rays
May 25, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Hex-Rays, developers of IDA (Interactive Disassembler) sends an email notification to its customers about a recent attack that may have resulted in the compromise of some license keys along with the web forum and the quotation system.
Bitcointalk
May 22, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
LeakedSource reveals that Bitcointalk.org had 499,593 users hacked in May of 2015. Data contains usernames, emails, passwords, birthdays, secret questions, hashed secret answers and some other internal data.
minecraftpeforum
May 24, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
@rmsg0d, a member of TeaMp0isoN, hacks minecraftpeforum.net (a Minecraft Pocket Edition Forum whose domain was recently expired) and dumps the forum's database containing 16,125 records with, usernames, passwords, and numerous other fields relating to for
Adult Friend Finder
May 21, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Personal information relating to almost 4 million users of a worldwide online dating website adultfriendfider.com is leaked on the Dark Web by unknown hackers. Details of users' sexual preferences, along with email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, postcodes and the unique internet addresses of users' computers are compromised.
beastforum
April 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Anonymous target the world's largest animal abuse forum (beastforum.com) with a DDoS attack, forcing it to go offline.
SIGAINT
April 23, 2015
•[ technology ]
SIGAINT, an email service that resides mostly in the anonymization network Tor, is the victim of an unknown attacker who tries to compromise it by using a total of 70 bad exit nodes.
