Roomsurf
February 16, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Roomsurf notifies its users of a data breach in which the attacker has been able to obtain usernames, phone numbers, and email addresses.
Bell Canada
January 23, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Police are investigating a new data breach at Bell Canada (the second in eight months), which says hackers have illegally obtained customer information, primarily subscriber names and e-mail addresses of up to 100,000 users.
Tv3.lt
January 18, 2018
•[ espionage, hack, technology ]
Ghostwriter, a suspected Belarus-backed hacking group, has compromised websites and email accounts in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland'to publish fabricated documents pushing anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) narratives consistent with Kremlin talking points. The influence campaign started in 2017.
Uber
November 21, 2017
•[ hack, ransomware, technology ]
Bloomberg reveals that hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber, a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year, after paying $100,000 to the attackers.
Pinterest
December 11, 2017
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Pinterest notifies users of suspicious activity due to attackers trying to compromise accounts using 'credential stuffing' (credentials obtained from other breaches).
Imgur
November 23, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
Imgur is notified of a potential security breach that occurred in 2014 and affected the email addresses and passwords of 1.7 million user accounts.
Algerie Telecom
November 17, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Algerian state telecom operator Algerie Telecom is hit by a prolonged DDoS attack.
Anderson Cooper's Twitter account (@andersoncooper)
December 13, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
CNN says Anderson Cooper's Twitter account was hacked after a since-removed tweet from his handle called the president a "tool" and a "pathetic loser" following Democrat Doug Jones win in Alabama's Senate election.
Oromia Media Network
December 6, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
A threat actor targeted Ethiopian dissidents for the purpose of espionage, using commercially available spyware sold by Cyberbit, an Israel-based company. Most notably, the actor targeted the Oromia Media Network and some individuals associated with it.
blog
October 26, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Two hackers going by the online handle of "n3tr1x" and "str0ng" deface the official blog (blog.jquery.com) of jQuery.
Microsoft
October 17, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
According to five former employees, Microsoft Corp's secret internal database for tracking bugs in its own software was broken into by a highly sophisticated hacking group more than four years ago.
Basetools.ws
October 24, 2017
•[ ransomware, technology ]
A hacker dubbed Mat AKA @0xScripts breaches Basetools.ws, an underground forum and demands a $50K ransom to avoid sharing stolen data with law enforcement.
Politifact
October 13, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website devoted to checking the factual accuracy of US politicians' words, appears to have been hacked so that it secretly mines cryptocurrency in visitors' browsers via CoinHive.
Crunchyroll
November 4, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Crunchyroll.com is the victim of a DNS hijack attack, so the visitors are redirected to a malicious website designed to infect them with malware.
Hetzner
November 1, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A key database operated by large South African data centre operator and website hosting service provider Hetzner is compromised, and the company advises clients to change their passwords immediately. Compromised data includes customer and bank account details.
Coinhive
October 23, 2017
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The DNS records for coinhive.com are manipulated to redirect requests for the coinhive.min.js to a third party server hosting a modified version of the JavaScript file with a hardcoded site key and letting the attacker "steal" hashes from users.
Telitec
October 21, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
In name of #OpCatalunya the Anonymous take down several Spanish including the Constitutional Court.
We Heart It
October 16, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
We Heart It, an image-sharing site, informs users their personal data may have been compromised. The breach, involving 8 million users, took place a few years ago and includes email addresses, usernames and encrypted passwords for We Heart It accounts created between 2008 and November 2013.
Taringa
September 4, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
LeakBase, a breach notification service, obtains a copy of the hacked database of Taringa, a social network popular in Latin America, containing details on 28,722,877 accounts, which includes usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords.
Canoe
September 2, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
The free news and entertainment portal Canoe.ca, operated by MediaQMI Inc. and owned by Sun Media Corp. prior to 2015, wishes to inform users that some of its databases containing records from the period of 1996 to 2008 have been breached.
