Dr. Web
January 25, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
In the past week, two security firms, Dr.Web and Emsisoft, suffered DDoS attacks at the hands of cyber-criminals who attempted to bring down their websites as payback for meddling with their illegal activities.
U.S. Cellular
January 25, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
DoubleFlag now claims to sell a database containing 126 million customer records from U.S. Cellular. The company denies the hack.
SwordFantasy
January 20, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
In January 2019, the now defunct MMO and RPG game SwordFantasy suffered a data breach that exposed 2.7M unique email addresses. Other impacted data included username, IP address and salted MD5 password hashes.
Channel One
January 17, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
Russian state television Channel One blames hackers for the leak online of the final episode of the BBC drama Sherlock a day before its actual planning.
MrExcel
January 16, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
MrExcel.com reveals that its forum has been compromised on the morning of December 6, 2016.
http://forumserver
January 9, 2017
•[ hack, technology ]
The operators of the world's largest online poker discussion forum, TwoPlusTwo, confirm that the forum was hacked at some point late in 2016, with the personal data then being offered for sale.
Square Enix's European Twitter Account (@SQUARE_ENIX_EU)
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Video game giant Square Enix's European Twitter account is hacked by a group of hackers calling themselves the "cyberwolfgang" and posts multiple tweets mocking other companies including rival gaming company EA, media outlet TechCrunch .
123-Reg
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
123-Reg is the target of a DDoS attack which disrupted the company's services only days into 2017.
google
January 4, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Kuroi'SH hjacks the DNS record of google.com.br and redirects the users to a defaced page.
LiveJournal
January 1, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In mid-2019, news broke of an alleged LiveJournal data breach. This followed multiple reports of credential abuse against Dreamwidth beginning in 2018, a fork of LiveJournal with a significant crossover in user base. The breach allegedly dates back to 2017 and contains 26M unique usernames and email addresses (both of which have been confirmed to exist on LiveJournal) alongside plain text passwords. An archive of the data was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum in May 2020 and redistributed broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "nano@databases.pw".
Victory Phones
January 1, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2017, the automated telephony services company Victory Phones left a Mongo DB database publicly facing without a password. Subsequently, 213GB of data was downloaded by an unauthorised party including names, addresses, phone numbers and over 166k unique email addresses.
Russian America
January 1, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2017, the website for Russian speakers in America known as Russian America suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 183k unique records including names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored in both plain text and as MD5 hashes. Russian America was contacted about the breach but did not respond.
ExtraTorrent
December 28, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
ExtraTorrent, one of the largest torrent sites on the internet suffered several major DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks over the past few days primarily because the site recently banned 'unofficial' proxy services.
Official Sony Music Global Twitter Account (@SonyMusicGlobal)
December 26, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
OurMine hack the Official Sony Music Global Twitter account (@SonyMusicGlobal) and Britney Spears joined the ranks of celebrities who have briefly died on the internet.
Steam
December 23, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The DDoS attackers from Phantom Squad have claimed responsibility for conducting a series of powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) on Steam and online gaming platform Origin servers.
Official Google Bangladesh Domain (google.bd)
December 21, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A group of Pakistani hackers going by the online handle of Team Pak Cyber Attackers deface the official Google Bangladesh domain. The group left a deface page along with a message on the targeted domain taunting security measures implemented by Google.
Tumblr
December 21, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Tumblr goes down for over two hours as a result of a large-scale DDoS attack.
EA Battlefield 1
December 17, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Phantom Squad Collective takes down the servers of EA Battlefield 1.
