Apple iCloud
October 20, 2014
•[ espionage, misconfiguration, technology ]
GreatFire.org, a group that monitors censorship by the Chinese government's national firewall system, reports that China is using the system as part of a man-in-the-middle attack on users of Apple's iCloud service within the country.
ILikeCheats
October 18, 2014
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2014, the game cheats website known as ILikeCheats suffered a data breach that exposed 189k accounts. The vBulletin based forum leaked usernames, IP and email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com.
Snapsaved
October 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Snapsaved.com, a third-party application that allows Snapchat users to save images and videos sent over the service online, is hacked, as a consequence 13 gigabytes of stolen images are posted online.
SAMAA TV
October 12, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of Kai-H4xOrR defaces the official website of SAMAA TV (samaa.tv) network which is Pakistan's privately owned news and entertainment network. The attack is done against the broadcasting of Indian content on the channel.
Hewlett Packard
October 10, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Hewlett-Packard alerts some customers that it will be revoking a digital certificate used to sign a huge swath of software, including hardware drivers and other software, since it had been used to digitally sign malware that had infected a developer's PC.
Google Indonesia
October 5, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Pakistani hacking group MaDLeeTs defaces the official Google Indonesia domain (google.co.id).
Valve
October 1, 2014
•[ hack, espionage, technology ]
Four men between 18 and 28 are charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft, the US Army and leading games manufacturers (Epic Games, Valve, and Zombie Studios), as part of an alleged international hacking ring that netted more than $100M in intellectual property.
9Lives
October 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In October 2014, the (now defunct) Belgian gaming news forum 9Lives suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 109k unique email addresses along with usernames and salted MD5 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "Leidhall".
Ello
September 29, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The social network Ello is the target of a DDoS attack.
Activision Blizzard
September 23, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hackers from the group Lizard Squad reneged on their promise to quit earlier this month, apparently launching DDoS attacks against Blizzard's servers running Call Of Duty: Ghosts and Destiny.
jQuery
September 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
RiskIQ detects a credential-stealing malware being loaded onto users computers through a drive-by download at jQuery.com. The attack was carried out using RIG exploit kit to target visitors.
RT
September 17, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
RT.com is hit with the most powerful DDoS attack in the website's history, which reached 10 Gbps in strength.
Freenode
September 15, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Popular IRC network Freenode suffers a security breach and asks users to change their passwords, as they might have been compromised.
Vodafone Egypt
September 13, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker going with the handle of Ali El Top defaces two official sub-domains of Vodafone Egypt.
Tout
September 11, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately September 2014, the now defunct social networking service Tout suffered a data breach. The breach subsequently appeared years later and included 653k unique email addresses, names, IP addresses, the location of the user, their bio and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "nmapthis@protonmail.com".
EA Firemonkeys
September 9, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
EA confirms that its Australian studio EA Firemonkeys was hacked in September last year and that "a small number of customer email addresses were potentially obtained".
Satoshi Nakamoto
September 9, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker with the moniker of Jeffrey claims to have taken over the email account belonging to bitcoin's secretive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, saying he will sell Nakamoto's secrets for money.
Undisclosed industrial software company
September 2, 2014
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
AlienVault reveals the details of Scanbox, a watering hole attack compromising the website of an industrial software company to collect information on the site's visitors.
ClamCase
August 29, 2014
•[ hack, financial, technology ]
ClamCase, a maker of keyboards and protective cases for iPads, notifies its customers that unidentified intruders gained access to personal information and payment details.
hackforums
August 28, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackforums.net, one of the most popular hacking forums in the world, is defaced by an Egyptian hacker with the online handle Eg-R1z.
