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 ]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
