MTN Irancell
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Law enforcers in Iran arrest a 19-year-old IT graduate for leaking personal data belonging to 20m 'MTN Irancell' customers in an elaborate scheme orchestrated with the help of the smartphone application Telegram. The database was allegedly stolen 3 years ago.
Funimation
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2016, the anime site Funimation suffered a data breach that impacted 2.5 million accounts. The data contained usernames, email addresses, dates of birth and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.
CrackingForum
July 1, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid-2016, the cracking community forum known as CrackingForum suffered a data breach. The vBulletin based forum exposed 660k email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes.
OnRPG
July 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In July 2016, the now defunct free online games list website OnRPG suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The incident exposed just over 1M email and IP addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Muslim Match
June 30, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
A niche dating website called Muslim Match has suffered a data breach exposing roughly 150,000 user accounts and more than half a million private messages.
Lilly Singh's YouTube Channel
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp defaces another popular YouTube Channel: Lilly Singh.
Twitter account of Brendan Iribe, CEO of virtual reality company Oculus
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Brendan Iribe, CEO of Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus, is the latest victim of the trail of Twitter accounts hjiacks.
StreetEasy
June 28, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately June 2016, the real estate website StreetEasy suffered a data breach. In total, 988k unique email addresses were included in the breach alongside names, usernames and SHA-1 hashes of passwords, all of which appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace in February 2019. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
Deutsche Telekom
June 27, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Deutsche Telekom has warned its customers that it found account passwords for sale on the dark web.
Whitepages
June 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2016, the telephone and address directory service Whitepages was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included over 11 million unique email addresses alongside names and passwords stored as either a SHA-1 or bcrypt hash. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
lookbook.nu
June 26, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Login data of Lookbook's 1.1 million users is available on the darknet for sale.
WatchMojo YouTube channel
June 25, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp deface two YouTube Popular Channels: WatchMojo and Redmercy.
Carbonite
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Online backup service Carbonite forces users to pick new passwords in the wake of discovering that it was under a large-scale account takeover attack.
Unknown Organization
June 20, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net experiences an outage, leaving players unable to log in to popular games such as Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft due to an alleged DDoS attack. Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for the latest atttack.
HLTV
June 19, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In June 2016, the "home of competitive Counter Strike" website HLTV was hacked and 611k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of names, usernames, email addresses and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
GoToMyPC
June 18, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
GoToMyPC the remote access software service is hit by hackers conducting a "very sophisticated password attack". The company initiates password resets for all users.
Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website
June 17, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
The Union of Hacktivists defaces the Eleven Media Group (EMG) Myanmar-language website.
GitHub
June 14, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Someone using what appears to have been a list of e-mail addresses and passwords obtained from the breach of "other online services" makes a massive number of login attempts to GitHub's repository service.
iMesh
June 13, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
51 million user accounts for iMesh, a now defunct file sharing service, are put on sale on the dark web.
DeRay Mckesson's Twitter Account (@deray)
June 10, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Black Lives Matter activist and politician DeRay Mckesson has his Twitter account hacked.
