AlfaNet
April 25, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The infamous hacker collective Rex Mundi hacks alfanet.be and blackmails the company, threatening to release all their customer data if they do not pay 15,000 euros.
NextGenUpdate
April 22, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
Early in 2014, the video game website NextGenUpdate reportedly suffered a data breach that disclosed almost 1.2 million accounts. Amongst the data breach was usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted and hashed passwords.
LaCie
April 15, 2014
•[ leak, malware, technology ]
LaCie confirms in a statement that malware successfully made its way through to access sensitive customer information stemming from transactions on its website. Virtually everyone who shopped on LaCie's website in the last year is at risk.
tutorialized
April 15, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker called SE2mhZVVY7HF4VEV0cOH hacks tutorialized.com and dumps 46244 usernames and hashed passwords.
Anonymous
April 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, espionage ]
Israeli hackers attacked computers belonging to Anonymous and allied hacker groups, taking pictures with exploited webcams and posting the photos online.
CafeMom
April 10, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
In 2014, the social network for mothers CafeMom suffered a data breach. The data surfaced alongside a number of other historical breaches including Kickstarter, Bitly and Disqus and contained 2.6 million email addresses and plain text passwords.
Boxee
April 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers post names, e-mail addresses, message histories, and partially protected login credentials for more than 158,000 forum users of Boxee.tv, the Web-based television service that was acquired by Samsung last year.
Mad Mimi
April 1, 2014
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
Email marketing service Mad Mimi is hit by a DDoS attack. Shortly after, they receive an email from someone who asked for 1.8 Bitcoins to stop launching attacks.
Boxee
March 29, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.
Cerberus
March 28, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
Over 96,000 users of the Cerberus anti-theft application for Android are advised to change their passwords after the company suffered a data breach.
Basecamp
March 24, 2014
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
After refusing to pay a ransom, Basecamp is the victim of a DDoS attack.
Hootsuite
March 21, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hootsuite is the victim of a DDoS Attack.
EA
March 19, 2014
•[ hack, social, phishing ]
One of Electronic Arts' servers is breached, allowing hackers to create a phony Apple log-in screen that prompts users for personal information.
Quantum Booter
March 18, 2014
•[ leak, ddos, technology ]
In March 2014, the booter service Quantum Booter (also referred to as Quantum Stresser) suffered a breach which lead to the disclosure of their internal database. The leaked data included private discussions relating to malicious activity Quantum Booter users were performing against online adversaries, including the IP addresses of those using the service to mount DDoS attacks.
Alaska Communications
February 27, 2014
•[ leak, malware, technology ]
Alaska Communications notifies an undisclosed number of current and former employees that their names, addresses, birthdates and Social Security numbers may have been exposed when a company computer was infected with a malware.
Griminal
February 24, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Rapper Griminal's Twitter account is hacked and posts suicidal tweets, worrying his fans.
Namecheap
February 20, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Web-hosting service Namecheap is hit with one of the largest distributed-denial-of-service attacks affecting roughly 300 domain names hosted by Namecheap.
Wurm Online
February 18, 2014
•[ ddos, technology ]
After being knocked down by a DDoS attack, the operator of the online playing-game Wurm online offer a bounty of 10,000 euros ($13,000) to gather any information about the author of the attack.
Muslim Directory
February 17, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker using the handle @th3inf1d3l announces a leak of data from muslimdirectory.co.uk resulting in 38,903 user credentials being leaked online.
Kickstarter
February 16, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Kickstarter announces that it has become aware of a security breach resulting in the loss of personal customer data like usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Potentially 5.6 million users have been affected.
