Unnamed adult forum
May 12, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
An unnamed porn forum is hacked and details of 100,000 members leaked.
PerezHilton
May 9, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Cyphort Labs reveal the details of a malvertising campaign targeting PerezHilton.com
Nulled.IO
May 6, 2016
•[ leak, sqlinjection, technology ]
The Nulled.IO forum is compromised and its data consequently leaked, consisting of a 9.45GB SQL file.
Boris Dobrodeev
May 6, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Hacktivists from the Anonymous collective leak what could be the email inbox of Boris Dobrodeev, the former boss of Russian social network VK, previously known as VKontakte.
Laremy Tunsil Twitter account
April 29, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Laremy Tunsil, a college football player has his Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked.
17 (an app particularly popular in Asia)
April 29, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A hacker advertises a cache of 20,000 email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app '17', which is particularly popular in Asia.
Spotify
April 25, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials, including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details, appears on Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible hack. The company, asked, denies the incident.
The Fappening Forum
April 13, 2016
•[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Fappening Forum is hacked, exposing 179,000 accounts. After the breach the forum is hit by malvertising distributing ransomware.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions
March 24, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
The contact information on some 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise is published on an underground forum. The company confirms to have recently discovered and remediated a security vulnerability on its enterprise client portal.
Tumblr
May 12, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
65 million passwords of Tumblr are on sell on the underground. The company admitted to have suffered a breach on May 12.
The Pirate Bay
April 27, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Malwarebytes identifies a malvertising campaign on The Pirate Bay, distributing the Cerber Malware via the Magnitude Exploit Kit. The attackers took advantage of the leak of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.
BeautifulPeople
April 25, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Forbes reveal that unknown hackers were able to hack Beautifulpeople.com and leak the personal details of 1.1M members.
UserVoice
May 9, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
UserVoice admits to have suffered a cyberattack in April which has exposed sensitive data belonging to a small subset of users with administrator or contributor status (0.001%).
51Degrees
May 8, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Mobile device detection company 51Degrees reveals to have been hacked.
Neopets
May 5, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Tens of millions of user accounts from virtual pets community Neopets are hacked and traded on the criminal underground.
Gryphon Technologies
April 30, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
Gryphon Technologies joins the list of the companies falling victim to W-2 phishing scams.
Lifeboat Minecraft Community
April 26, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Over seven million user accounts belonging to members of Minecraft community "Lifeboat" are hacked.
gamescollection
April 15, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks gamescollection.it and dumps 1,274 usernames and hashed passwords.
OpSec Security
March 25, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
OpSec Security joins the list of the companies who have fallned victim to email scams, as a consequence the 2015 W-2 tax forms for current and former employees are compromised.
gumtree
March 25, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Malwarebytes reveals the details of a malvertising campaign, distributing the infamous Angler Exploit Kit, and targeting gumtree.com.au.