Hope FM
January 28, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Suspected hackers briefly hijack Hope FM, a popular Christian radio station in Kenya, and play Islamic verses before it went off air.
Taylor Swift Twitter account
January 27, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Taylor Swift's Twitter and Instagram accounts are hacked. The fake posts encourage to follow the users @Veriuser and @Lizzard.
Topface
January 25, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Russian dating site Topface is hacked and the usernames of 20 million visitors are offered for sale on a website. A few days after the hacked site buys back the records (officially "awards" the hacker for discovering the vulnerability).
Le Monde
January 20, 2015
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Yet another victim of the Syrian Electronic Army. The Twitter account of the French newspaper Le Monde is hacked and posts a polemic tweet "Je ne suis pas Charlie".
Microsoft Outlook
January 19, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Online censorship watchdog Greatfire.org receives reports related to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack against Outlook users in China.
New York Post
January 17, 2015
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
A total of six fake messages are posted from the Twitter accounts of New York Post and United Press International (UPI) by unknown individuals.
Lizard Squad
January 16, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
LizardStresser[dot]ru, the stresser service (DDoS-for-hire) created by the infamous LizardSquad, is allegedly hacked, revealing the details of its 14,241 users.
Lizard Squad
January 16, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2015, the hacker collective known as "Lizard Squad" created a DDoS service by the name of "Lizard Stresser" which could be procured to mount attacks against online targets. Shortly thereafter, the service suffered a data breach which resulted in the public disclosure of over 13k user accounts including passwords stored in plain text.
ansar-alhaqq
January 12, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
In the name of OpCharlieHebdo, the Anonymous claim to have take down the first pro-Jihadist site ansar-alhaqq.net. The site is only the first of a list of Islamist sites allegedly taken down by the hacktivists.
ExtraTorrent
January 11, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Extratorrent, the world's number 4 torrent website is taken down by a DDOS attack.
8chan
January 8, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The infamous Lizard Squad takes credit for a DDoS attack against the imageboard site 8chan.
Orange Spain
January 5, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Linker Squad claims to have hacked 10 million user records from Orange Spain.
TF1
January 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers from Linker Squad claim to have stolen confidential data relating to almost 2 million online shoppers in France who made purchases via the French TV station website TF1.fr.
TravelWest
January 2, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Darkshadow, the member of Arab Security Team, a group of pro-Al Qaeda hackers, defaces a local journey planner website (TravelWest around Bristol), maybe believing to have targeted a major international travel website.
Difference Games
January 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Zyklon hacks differencegames.com and dumps 1,804 usernames and clear text passwords.
Bleach Anime Forum
January 1, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In 2015, the now defunct independent forum for the Bleach Anime series suffered a data breach that exposed 144k user records. The impacted data included usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
