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.
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.
