Yahoo!
February 15, 2017
•[ espionage, misconfiguration, technology ]
Yahoo sends out another round of notifications to users, warning some that their accounts may have been breached as recently as last year. The accounts were affected by a flaw in Yahoo's mail service that allowed an attacker, most likely a "state actor", according to Yahoo, to use a forged cookie created by software stolen from within Yahoo's internal systems to gain access accounts without a password.
FileSilo
February 8, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
UK magazine publisher Future's FileSilo website (FileSilo.co.uk) is raided by hackers, who make off with, among other information, unencrypted user account passwords.
CD Projekt Red
January 31, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
CD Projekt Red, the Poland-based developer behind the popular 'Witcher' game and comic series, is hit with a forum hack that compromised over 1.8 million user credentials. The hack allegedly took place in March of last year.
AlphaBay
January 26, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
About 218,000 unencrypted private messages posted to the AlphaBay dark web marketplace are accessed and released to the public.
U.S. Cellular
January 25, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
DoubleFlag now claims to sell a database containing 126 million customer records from U.S. Cellular. The company denies the hack.
Freedom Hosting II
February 3, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
The Anonymous take down Freedom Hosting II, the largest repository of dark web sites. The hackers are able to steal 75 GB worth of files and 2.6 GB of databases.
Sunny 107.9 WFBS-LPFM
January 31, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Another station is hijacked to play the "F*** Donald Trump" song.
Dr. Web
January 25, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
In the past week, two security firms, Dr.Web and Emsisoft, suffered DDoS attacks at the hands of cyber-criminals who attempted to bring down their websites as payback for meddling with their illegal activities.
Channel One
January 17, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
Russian state television Channel One blames hackers for the leak online of the final episode of the BBC drama Sherlock a day before its actual planning.
123-Reg
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
123-Reg is the target of a DDoS attack which disrupted the company's services only days into 2017.
ExtraTorrent
December 28, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
ExtraTorrent, one of the largest torrent sites on the internet suffered several major DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks over the past few days primarily because the site recently banned 'unofficial' proxy services.
Official Sony Music Global Twitter Account (@SonyMusicGlobal)
December 26, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
OurMine hack the Official Sony Music Global Twitter account (@SonyMusicGlobal) and Britney Spears joined the ranks of celebrities who have briefly died on the internet.
Vijay Mallya
December 9, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya's Twitter account appears to have been hacked. The alleged hackers hijack Mallya's account and are currently leaking the industrialist's personal and sensitive information.
Kagoya
December 8, 2016
•[ financial, hack, technology ]
Kagoya, a famous hosting service provider in Japan suffers a security breach in which the personal and financial data of its customers is stolen. In an email to their customers, Kagoya states that the attack affected about 50,000 customers who used their credit cards between April 1, 2015 and September 21, 2016.
google
January 4, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Kuroi'SH hjacks the DNS record of google.com.br and redirects the users to a defaced page.
Steam
December 23, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The DDoS attackers from Phantom Squad have claimed responsibility for conducting a series of powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) on Steam and online gaming platform Origin servers.
Tumblr
December 21, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Tumblr goes down for over two hours as a result of a large-scale DDoS attack.
http://forumserver
January 9, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
The operators of the world's largest online poker discussion forum, TwoPlusTwo, confirm that the forum was hacked at some point late in 2016, with the personal data then being offered for sale.
Square Enix's European Twitter Account (@SQUARE_ENIX_EU)
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Video game giant Square Enix's European Twitter account is hacked by a group of hackers calling themselves the "cyberwolfgang" and posts multiple tweets mocking other companies including rival gaming company EA, media outlet TechCrunch .
Official Google Bangladesh Domain (google.bd)
December 21, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A group of Pakistani hackers going by the online handle of Team Pak Cyber Attackers deface the official Google Bangladesh domain. The group left a deface page along with a message on the targeted domain taunting security measures implemented by Google.
