AT&T
June 16, 2014
•[ insider, technology ]
AT&T confirms that outside attackers (allegedly employees of one of AT&T's service providers) compromised the personal information of an undisclosed number of AT&T Mobility members.
Synology NAS Boxes
June 13, 2014
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Dell SecureWorks reveals that unknown hackers were able to hijack Synology NAS Boxes for mining Dogecoin, reaping $620,000 in two months.
Feedly
June 11, 2014
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
News aggregator Feedly is made inaccessible by a DDoS attack. Attackers demand a ransom to stop their crippling assault, which the company refuses to pay.
Deezer
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The French music service Deezer is struck by a DDoS attack, which remains unavailable during the weekend.
Evernote
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mobile and online note app Evernote was hit with a DDoS attack, taking its servers offline for several hours.
Manga Traders
June 9, 2014
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2014, the Manga trading website Mangatraders.com had the usernames and passwords of over 900k users leaked on the internet (approximately 855k of the emails were unique). The passwords were weakly hashed with a single iteration of MD5 leaving them vulnerable to being easily cracked.
ESET
June 6, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The ESET Security Forum is hacked and the company confirms that account credentials of its roughly 2,700 members have been accessed by the attackers.
Spotify
May 27, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Spotify warns of unauthorized access to the company's network and internal data. The unauthorized access appears to involve data for a single, unspecified person.
Avast
May 27, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The support forum of Avast is hacked. Attackers get access to cryptographically hashed passwords, usernames, and e-mail addresses for about 400,000 people.
Typepad
May 19, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Typepad, the famous blogging platform is under a sustained DDoS attack.
Moz
May 17, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Yet another DDoS attack. This time the victim is moz.com.
Rescator
May 17, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Rescator, a popular underground website that sells payment card data, is hacked and defaced.
Point DNS
May 9, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Domain host Point DNS has been hammered with a high intensity DDoS attack on Friday, knocking servers out for hours.
Bitly
May 8, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.
Orange
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
French telecommunications group Orange announces that a breach last month resulted in the theft of the personal information of 1.3 million of its customers, including phone numbers, dates of birth, and email addresses.
The Wall Street Journal
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, social, technology ]
The Syrian Electronic Army is back and hijacks a total of four Twitter accounts of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Ground(ctrl)
May 7, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Ground(ctrl), a company which builds social networking sites and other services for musicians, begins notifying an undisclosed number of users that their personal information may have been exposed when the company's network was hacked.
Fridae
May 2, 2014
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2014, over 25,000 user accounts were breached from the Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender website known as "Fridae". The attack which was announced on Twitter appears to have been orchestrated by Deletesec who claim that "Digital weapons shall annihilate all secrecy within governments and corporations". The exposed data included password stored in plain text.
Kali
April 30, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A Libyan Hackers group called "The GreaT Team" (TGT) defaces the mailing list subdomain of Kali website (lists.kali.org).
AOL Mail
April 28, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
AOL Mail is hacked and several users report their accounts are being used to send spam to others. The potential impact affects 50 million and all users are urged to change their passwords.
