Bellingcat
September 29, 2016
•[ espionage, technology ]
ThreatConnect reveals that investigative journalism group Bellingcat, that helped to investigate the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 have been targeted in a series of sophisticated attacks by pro-Russia group Fancy Bear.
H&L Australia
September 20, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers claim to have hacked Australian point-of-sale technology (PoS) company H&L Australia, and offer the database for sale. They were already offering it for sale for AU$22,000 ($16,580, 12,723) more than two months ago.
VoIPTalk
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Telephony provider VolPtalk may have been hit by hackers. The firm discreetly informs customers about a potential data breach and request to reset their passwords as a precautionary measure.
Variety
September 3, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Entertainment news site Variety is briefly taken over by the infamous hacker group OurMine. The hacking collective manages to break into Variety's content management system and defaces the site with a post of their own claiming responsibility for the attack.
Lightspeed
September 2, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Point of sales vendor Lightspeed is breached with password, customer data, and API keys possibly exposed, and notifies customers in an email saying that the information was contained in a compromised database.
Transmission BitTorrent Client
September 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Developers of the Transmission BitTorrent client admitted that hackers replaced downloads of its file-sharing software with trojanized code. The hack, detected within hours, was designed to spread a Mac OS X backdoor, Kidnap, which steals user credentials.
Last
September 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
More than 43 million of user records from UK-based music streaming service Last.fm surfaced from a hack that occurred in 2012. Each record reportedly contains a username, email address, hashed password and profile data.
LinkedIn
August 11, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A new lawsuit reveals that data thieves used a massive botnet against LinkedIn to steal members' personal information via information scraping by fake profiles.
Romelu Lukaku's Instagram Account
August 3, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Romelu Lukaku, the Everton footballer is the latest celebrity to have his Instagram account hacked.
Iranian Telegram users
August 2, 2016
•[ espionage, hack, leak ]
Iranian hackers linked to the state sponsored group called Rocket Kitten have compromised more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users.
ubuntuforums
July 14, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Popular Ubuntu Forum ubuntuforums.org is hacked and 2 million user details that includes usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses are stolen.
Datadog
July 8, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Datadog, the software-as-a-service monitoring and analytics platform, is hit by hackers and strongly suggests that customers initiate password resets.
League of Legends
August 3, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
And the PoodleCorp collective also claims to have taken down the website of League of Legends (leagueoflegends.com)
Unknown Organization
August 2, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
A hacking crew that goes by the name of PeggleCrew compromises Fosshub and embedded malware inside the files hosted on the website and offered for download.
AfrikaDating
July 15, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
ElSurveillance continues his #EscortsOffline campaign and leaks 12,738 user records from afrikadating.com.
Netia
July 7, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
A Ukrainian hacker going by the handle of Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) breaches the servers of Poland's telecom company Netia SA and leak a 14GB file containing customers' details.
LeafyIsHere YouTube Channel
July 4, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp hacks LeafyIsHere, a popular YouTube Channel with over 3 million subscribers and defaces the main page.
MTN Irancell
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Law enforcers in Iran arrest a 19-year-old IT graduate for leaking personal data belonging to 20m 'MTN Irancell' customers in an elaborate scheme orchestrated with the help of the smartphone application Telegram. The database was allegedly stolen 3 years ago.
libero
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
The database of the Italian portal libero.it is leaked online (about 750,000 users).
Muslim Match
June 30, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
A niche dating website called Muslim Match has suffered a data breach exposing roughly 150,000 user accounts and more than half a million private messages.
