GitHub
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Someone using what appears to have been a list of e-mail addresses and passwords obtained from the breach of "other online services" makes a massive number of login attempts to GitHub's repository service.
GoToMyPC
June 18, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
GoToMyPC the remote access software service is hit by hackers conducting a "very sophisticated password attack". The company initiates password resets for all users.
DeRay Mckesson's Twitter Account (@deray)
June 10, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Black Lives Matter activist and politician DeRay Mckesson has his Twitter account hacked.
VK
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Russian social networking site VK.com appears to have been breached in 2012 with hackers selling some 100 million records for a mere US$580 in Bitcoins.
CNN
June 1, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Members of the Ghost Squad Hackers team, one of Anonymous' former subdivisions, take down the email servers of CNN and FOX News as part of a new hacktivism campaign dubbed OpSilence.
DAC Group
June 9, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
DAC Group suffers a security breach resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts. The data also contains 77,000 accounts from State Farm, an insurance company.
Twitter
June 7, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The same hacker who had links to the recent MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr data breaches, claims to have obtained a database from Twitter, which includes email addresses (and sometimes two per person), usernames, and plain-text passwords. Tessa88 is selling the cache for 10 bitcoins, or about $5,820 at the time of writing.
Reddit
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A surge in account hijacking and takeovers forces Reddit to reset 100,000 passwords.
MySpace
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker hiding behind the email address Tessa88@exploit.im publishes a database containing 360 million records belonging to MySpace. The database is the alleged result of a breach that occurred in 2013.
NS1
May 25, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Unknown attackers have been directing an ever-changing army of bots in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against NS1, a major DNS and traffic management provider.
Kylie Jenner's Twitter account (@KylieJenner)
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Kylie Jenner is the latest celebrity to have her Twitter account hacked.
Drake's Twitter account (@Drake)
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Drake's Twitter account was taken over by an account called @2aiden3.
TeamViewer
June 4, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Users of the remote login service TeamViewer report their computers have been ransacked by attackers who somehow gained access to their accounts.
Fiverr
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Fiverr suffers a six-hour DDoS attack after removing DDoS-for-Hire listings.
hypergen
May 24, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks hypergen.ch and dumps 22,000 accounts.
Badoo
June 2, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
User accounts for dating site Badoo are being traded in the digital underground, including email address, cracked passwords, names, and dates of birth.
scrum
May 26, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Scrum.org, the Scrum certification and training site contacts users to warn them of a security breach.
Fur Affinity
May 20, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Fur Affinity, a community people with an interest in anthropomorphic animal characters such as wolves and foxes is hacked and the hackers may have run off with email addresses and hashed passwords.
Pornhub[.]com
May 14, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Few days after kicking off its bug bounty problem, Pornhub is hacked by an underground researcher who claims to sell the access to a command execution shell for $1000.
Avention
May 13, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Avention, investigate data breaches affecting personal information of its employees.
