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.
Warframe
November 24, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In November 2014, the online game Warframe was hacked and 819k unique email addresses were exposed. Allegedly due to a SQL injection flaw in Drupal, the attack exposed usernames, email addresses and data in a "pass" column which adheres to the salted SHA12 password hashing pattern used by Drupal 7. Digital Extremes (the developers of Warframe), asserts the salted hashes are of "alias names" rather than passwords.
Malwarebytes
November 15, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2014, the Malwarebytes forum was hacked and 111k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Bot of Legends
November 13, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In November 2014, the forum for Bot of Legends suffered a data breach. The IP.Board forum contained 238k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Popular Science
October 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Websense detects that the official website of Popular Science (popsci.com) is compromised, serving malicious code.
Pandora TV Co. Ltd.
October 21, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Pandora TV Co. Ltd., the South Korea-based operator of the country's biggest video sharing website, lost 114,707 pieces of personal information during two confirmed intrusions in September. The investigation suggests that 7.4 million pieces of personal information were affected.
