Alexa Losey Twitter Account
August 6, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
The OurMine collective hacks the Twitter account of popular Youtuber Alexa Losey.
Three Mobile
November 18, 2016
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Three Mobile admits that hackers have successfully accessed its customer upgrade database after using an employee login. 6 million customers' private information is at risk.
24luv
November 12, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
The hacktivist known as ElSurveillance is back with its operation #EscortsOffline and two more data dumps from two dating sites: 24luv.com (92,937 users' email addresses and plain-text passwords) and freedateusa.com (127,395 email addresses and plain-text passwords).
Donald Trump's Twitter account
October 27, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Three Dutch hackers broke into Donald Trump's Twitter account in 2016 by guessing his password was "yourefired".
BuzzFeed
October 5, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
OurMine hackers take control of BuzzFeed's website and alter multiple stories published on its site.
Spotify
October 4, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Multiple users report that popular music-streaming service Spotify serves malware-laden ads.
Large LED video screen billboard in South Jakarta
September 30, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker or a group of hackers hack into the computer system of a large LED video screen billboard in the Kebayoran Baru district of South Jakarta and replace the advertisement on the screen with pornographic content for a short period of time.
Brazzers
September 5, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
Nearly 800,000 accounts for popular porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach.
Twitter
September 3, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A group of hackers dubbed Spain Squad claims to have found a way to seize inactive and suspended Twitter accounts, and sells them on the social network.
Sage Software
August 17, 2016
•[ insider, misconfiguration, technology ]
A data breach at Sage Software may have compromised personal information for employees at 280 UK businesses. The breach was caused by "unauthorised access" by someone using an "internal" company computer login. The alleged author of the attack, a 32 year-old Sage employee was arrested at Heathrow airport.
PAR Technology
August 11, 2016
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Forbes reveals that the Carbanak Gang also breached 5 more cash registers providers.
Post Office
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office customers have had their internet access cut by an attack targeting certain types of internet routers.
Channel 2
December 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Two main news channels in Israel were hacked and the attackers broadcasted a 30-second clip showing images of Muslim holy sites and Quranic scriptures.
Mailchimp
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Hackers compromise the Mailchimp database and manage to send out emails containing malicious links to subscribers of various different companies.
Ask
November 23, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
An unknown attacker hijacks the update mechanism employed by Ask Partner Network (APN) to download suspicious code onto unsuspecting users' PCs.
PageGroup
November 1, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
UK-based global recruitment firm PageGroup confirms that an alleged lone hacker broke into its network and illegally accessed job applicants' personal information. The data breach occurred when the hacker infiltrated a development server run by Capgemini.
StarHub
October 24, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A new DDoS attack hits the infrastructure of StarHub.
RTFB
October 24, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Syrian Cyber Army claims responsibility for DDoS attacks against several Belgian media news outlets including De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, Gazet van Antwerpen, Het Belang van Limburg, and RTFB.
StarHub
October 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Singapore telecommunications company StarHub is the target of a DDoS attack (once again carried on flooding the company with bogus DNS queries).
Modern Business Systems (MBS)
October 13, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Over 58 million customer records are stolen and leaked online. Data includes names, email and postal addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses and more.
