Linux Mint Distribution
February 20, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Clem Lefebvre, the creator of the Linux Mint Distribution reveals that an intrusion on the distribution's web site took place, in which hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack the website to point to it.
Bohemia Interactive
February 19, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Bohemia Interactive announces a potential security breach of the Mantis Feedback Tracker systems, used to collect feedback and bug reports for the games Arma 3 and DayZ.
bfsihiring
February 17, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Bravewanderer hacks bfsihiring.com and dumps 24,317 usernames and clear text passwords.
Spotify
February 15, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Hundreds of Spotify Premium account details are compromised and leaked online by an unknown hacker. A number of separate data dumps containing email addresses, passwords, account types and renewal dates appear online.
Webafrica
February 12, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In name of #OpAfrica, Tobitow, a member of Team Hack Argentino and Anonymous Argentina, exploit a vulnerability in the Web hosting service of Webafrica and defaced 2,532 South African websites.
CPanel
January 28, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
CPanel says the company has managed to repel a cyberattack against servers containing customer data. One of the cPanel customer databases might have been breached.
pastebin
January 30, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Pastebin is taken down by a huge DDoS attack.
pagesjaunesdusenegal
January 16, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown attacker hacks pagesjaunesdusenegal.com and dumps 9500 usernames and hashed passwords.
MSN
January 19, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Malwarebytes detects a malvertising campaign targeting the MSN Home Page via the AD network AdSpirit.
KickassTorrents
January 16, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
KickassTorrents (kat.cr) is taken down by a DDoS attack.
o2c
January 10, 2016
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
Fr0mShell hacks o2c.fr and dumps 4,160 accounts with clear text passwords.
Interxion
January 9, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Data center services Interxion informs customers that it has suffered a security breach, which has seen hackers access contact information stored in its CRM about corporate clients and prospects. The breach happened in December and could have affected 23,200 contacts.
Forbes
January 6, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Brian Baskin, a digital forensics expert, is served with malware when visiting the Forbes' website, after disabling the AD blocker as suggested.
Citrix
January 13, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A Russian hacker dubbed W0rm claims to have broken into systems run by Citrix, and gained access to potentially a huge number of customers.
Jeremy Corbyn Twitter Account (@jeremycorbyn)
January 10, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An attacker takes over the Twitter account of the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and posts several bogus tweets. In particular one of them mocks the UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
boards
January 18, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The popular Irish forum boards.ie is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Linode
December 29, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Virtual server host Linode is the target of a four day-long DDoS attack.
Unknown Organization
December 25, 2015
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
Members of the Anonymous hacker collective deface the Asia Pacific Telecommunity website (apt.int), gain access to the site's admin panel and also manage to get their hands on a database dump.
Xbox Live
December 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad prepare their Christmas campaign and claim responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft's Xbox Live service.
BBC
December 31, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
All of the BBC's websites are unavailable following a DDoS attack.
