Planet Calypso
July 1, 2019
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In approximately July 2019, the forums for the Planet Calypso game suffered a data breach. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
PCM Inc.
June 27, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
An intrusion at PCM Inc., a cloud solution provider, allows hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company?s clients. PCM discovered the intrusion in mid-May 2019. The attackers stole administrative credentials for Office 365.
Yandex
June 27, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
Reuters reveal that hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018. Apparently the attack was carried out with a Regin variant.
SocialEngineered
June 20, 2019
•[ social, hack, leak ]
SocialEngineered.net, a forum dedicated to social engineering announces to have been breached and data from tens of thousands of members leaked online.
Tenx Systems
June 18, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Tenx Systems reveals to have been hit by a ransomware attack discovered on April 9.
Symantec Lab in Australia
June 13, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
Symantec downplays a data breach that allowed a hacker to access passwords and a purported list of its clients. The companies states that the ?minor incident? involved ?an isolated, self-enclosed demo lab in Australia
Symantec Lab in Australia
June 13, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
Symantec downplays a data breach that allowed a hacker to access passwords and a purported list of its clients. The companies states that the "minor incident" involved an isolated, self-enclosed demo lab in Australia
Social Engineered
June 13, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In June 2019, the "Art of Human Hacking" site Social Engineered suffered a data breach. The breach of the MyBB forum was published on a rival hacking forum and included 89k unique email addresses spread across 55k forum users and other tables in the database. The exposed data also included usernames, IP addresses, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Telegram
June 12, 2019
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Telegram is hit by a DDoS attack. The attack seems to be originating from China and seems to be related to the protests in Hong Kong against a controversial extradition bill.
Amitabh Bachchan Twitter Account
June 10, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
The official Twitter account of Bollywood's legend actor and producer Amitabh Bachchan is apparently hacked by Turkish hacking group calling itself Ayy?ld?z Tim.
Emuparadise
June 9, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
The Emuparadise retro gaming site reportedly suffers a data breach, dating back April 2018. The breach exposed account information for approximately 1.1 million forum members.
Eurofins Scientific
June 2, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Eurofins Scientific is hit by a ransomware attack.
Condo.com
June 1, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2019, now defunct website Condo.com suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The impacted data included 1.5M email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and for a small number of records, physical addresses.
Flipboard
May 28, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
Flipboard identifies unauthorized access to some databases containing certain users' account information, including account credentials. The unauthorized access occurred between June 2, 2018 and March 23, 2019 and April 21-22, 2019.
Canva
May 24, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In May 2019, the graphic design tool website Canva suffered a data breach that impacted 137 million subscribers. The exposed data included email addresses, usernames, names, cities of residence and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes for users not using social logins. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
Computacenter UK Ltd
May 22, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
The third-party mailbox used by Computacenter UK Ltd employees and contractors to deposit data for security clearance applications is hacked and used in phishing scams.
TeamViewer
May 17, 2019
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
TeamViewer confirms today that it has been the victim of a cyber attack which was discovered during the autumn of 2016, but was never disclosed. This attack is thought to be of Chinese origins and utilized the Winnti backdoor.
Minehut
May 17, 2019
•[ leak, technology ]
In May 2019, the Minecraft server website Minehut suffered a data breach. The company advised a database backup had been obtained after which they subsequently notified all impacted users. 397k email addresses from the incident were provided to HIBP. A data set with both email addresses and bcrypt password hashes was also later provided to HIBP.
OGUSERS
May 16, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
OGUSERS, a forum where hackers and cybercriminals trade stolen Instagram and Twitter accounts is apparently hacked.
Stack Overflow
May 16, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In a short announcement, Stack Overflow informs that it was the target of an attack that resulted in hackers accessing its production systems. The breach occurred on May 5.
