TVEyes
January 31, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
TVEyes, a broadcast television search engine used by political campaigns to monitor opponents and track ads, is hit with a ransomware attack.
kauno.diena.lt
January 30, 2020
•[ espionage, phishing, technology ]
Ghostwriter, a suspected Belarus-backed hacking group, has compromised websites and email accounts in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland'to publish fabricated documents pushing anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) narratives consistent with Kremlin talking points. The influence campaign started in 2017.
NFL
January 27, 2020
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
The NFL's Facebook account has been hacked by the OurMine group.
Enrique Hernandez
January 22, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
The Twitter account of second-baseman for the LA Dodgers, Enrique Hernandez, is hacked by the OurMine group.
Dave Moss
January 22, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
The Twitter account of Dave Moss is hacked by the OurMine group.
Eduardo Saverin
January 22, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
The Twitter account of Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, is hacked by the OurMine group.
Matt Raub
January 22, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
The Twitter account of director Matt Raub is hacked by the OurMine group.
Jeff Bezos
January 21, 2020
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
An investigation reveals that Jeff Bezos' phone exfiltrated a massive amounts of personal information after receiving a WhatsApp-attached video file sent by the future king of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman on May 1, 2018.
Crossroads Technologies
January 21, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Crossroads Technologies is hit with a Maze ransomware attack.
Kamaru Usman Twitter account
January 19, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
UFC champion Kamaru Usman says his Twitter account was hacked, after series of explicit tweets against Conor McGregor.
LimeLeads
January 14, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
49 million user records extracted from a misconfigured Elasticsearch database by US data broker LimeLeads are put up for sale online.
Boing Boing
January 10, 2020
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The popular Boing Boing blog is hacked by an unknown party who plants malicious code into the site's WordPress theme. Users visiting the site from desktop computers are redirected to a fake download page for an Adobe Flash update.
MobiFriends
January 6, 2020
•[ leak, technology ]
In January 2020, the Barcelona-based dating app MobiFriends suffered a data breach that exposed 3.5 million unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, genders, dates of birth and MD5 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
HTC Mania
January 4, 2020
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In January 2020, the Spanish mobile phone forum HTC Mania suffered a data breach of the vBulletin based site. The incident exposed 1.5M member email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes and password histories. Data from the breach was subsequently redistributed on popular hacking websites.
Adam Sandler's Twitter account
January 2, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
Adam Sandler's Twitter account is hacked and used to post offensive messages against Mariah Carey, President Obama, and President Trump.
Filmai.in
January 1, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2019 or 2020, the Lithuanian movie streaming service Filmai.in suffered a data breach exposing 645k email addresses, usernames and plain text passwords.
Nameless Malware
January 1, 2020
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In January 2021, NordLocker provided HIBP 1.1 million email addresses collected by nameless malware. The malware campaign ran between 2018 and 2020 and infected 3.25 million computers, stealing files, credentials and taking screenshots and photos using the computer's webcam. Read more in NordLocker's writeup about the Nameless malware that stole 1.2 TB of private data.
CheckPeople
January 1, 2020
•[ leak, technology ]
unknown
Clearview AI
January 1, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
