Kickstarter
February 16, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.
Forbes
February 15, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
In February 2014, the Forbes website succumbed to an attack that leaked over 1 million user accounts. The attack was attributed to the Syrian Electronic Army, allegedly as retribution for a perceived "Hate of Syria". The attack not only leaked user credentials, but also resulted in the posting of fake news stories to forbes.com.
Cloudflare
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A distributed denial-of-service attack targeting Cloudflare reaches 400 gigabits per second,making it the largest DDoS attack ever recorded.
Supercell Facebook Pages
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
The Facebook pages of two games, Hay Day and Clash of Clans, developed by the Helsinki-based video game developer Supercell are hacked. The attack is executed by hijacking the emails of two Supercell employees.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
February 6, 2014
•[ hack, espionage, technology ]
India launches an investigation after a media report alleged that Chinese telecoms company Huawei had hacked into state-run telecoms carrier BSNL.
MarkMonitor
February 6, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A failed attempt that's worth to be mentioned: the Syrian Electronic Army attempts to hack a number of high profile websites, including Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and Google, by hacking into the domain management service provider MarkMonitor.
Comcast
February 5, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The NullCrew collective claim to have successfully hacked Comcast, providing a link on Pastebin to unredacted information as evidence.
PayPal
February 5, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Hackers have compromised the eBay and PayPal marketing webpages in the UK, France, and India, causing some visitors to be redirected to fraudulent destinations.
Turkcell
February 4, 2014
•[ leak, hack, technology ]
Hackers of the RedHack group claim to have breached the systems of three major telecoms companies: TTNET, Vodafone and Turkcell. After the attack they leak the details of hundreds of individuals from TTNET and 5,000 Vodafone customers.
Orange
February 3, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Orange confirms that hackers accessed the personal data of three percent of Orange's customers in France (corresponding to about 800,000 users), using the 'My Account' section of orange.fr. The attack took place on 16 January.
Carlo Ancelotti
February 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Twitter account of Carlo Ancelotti (@MrAncelotti), the manager of the Spanish football team Real Madrid, has been hacked.
Bell Canada
February 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The hacking group NullCrew AKA @NullCrew_FTS claims to have successfully hacked Bell Canada (bell.ca). As a consequence 40,000 credentials are leaked.
GitHub
January 27, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
GitHub is taken down by a DDoS Attack.
CNN
January 24, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Syrian Electronic Army hacks several accounts belonging to CNN. Targets include: CNN's main Facebook account, CNN Politics' Facebook account and the Twitter pages for CNN and CNN's Security Clearance. Blogs for Political Ticker, The Lead, Security Clearance, The Situation Room and Crossfire were also hacked.
Ubuntu
January 21, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
SultanHaikal from Gantengers Crew defaces 6 official domains of Ubuntu One.
Turkcell
January 16, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
Hackers of the RedHack collective leak the phone numbers of over 4,000 people who work for Turkcell, the leading mobile phone operator of Turkey.
Syrian Electronic Army
January 15, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Turkish hacking collective TurkGuvenligi defaces the Syrian Electronic Army's website.
AVG
January 15, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
19 official domains of AVG are defaced by different hackers from Indonesia and Pakistan.
Xbox Twitter account
January 13, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
In the same campaign the Syrian Electronic Army hacks the Twitter Xbox Support account, the Xbox Twitter and Instagram, and Microsoft employees.
iiNet
January 10, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Australia's third-largest ISP, iiNet, launches a full investigation into a security breach of its TransACT network, believed to be affecting the email servers of one of its subsidiaries.
