Donald Trump's Twitter account
October 27, 2016
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Three Dutch hackers broke into Donald Trump's Twitter account in 2016 by guessing his password was "yourefired".
RTFB
October 24, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Syrian Cyber Army claims responsibility for DDoS attacks against several Belgian media news outlets including De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, Gazet van Antwerpen, Het Belang van Limburg, and RTFB.
StarHub
October 24, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A new DDoS attack hits the infrastructure of StarHub.
StarHub
October 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Singapore telecommunications company StarHub is the target of a DDoS attack (once again carried on flooding the company with bogus DNS queries).
Sony PlayStation Network
October 21, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Sony Playstation Network is the target of the Mirai botnet DDoS attack.
Dailymotion
October 20, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In October 2016, the video sharing platform Dailymotion suffered a data breach. The attack led to the exposure of more than 85 million user accounts and included email addresses, usernames and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
RedBus
October 18, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Online travel giant Ibibo Group-owned ticketing platform RedBus confirms to have been subject to a cyber attack that might have exposed the email addresses of some of its customers.
Modern Business Systems (MBS)
October 13, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Over 58 million customer records are stolen and leaked online. Data includes names, email and postal addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses and more.
Modern Business Solutions
October 8, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2016, a large Mongo DB file containing tens of millions of accounts was shared publicly on Twitter (the file has since been removed). The database contained over 58M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, names, home addresses, genders, job titles, dates of birth and phone numbers. The data was subsequently attributed to "Modern Business Solutions", a company that provides data storage and database hosting solutions. They've yet to acknowledge the incident or explain how they came to be in possession of the data.
BuzzFeed
October 5, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
OurMine hackers take control of BuzzFeed's website and alter multiple stories published on its site.
Spotify
October 4, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Multiple users report that popular music-streaming service Spotify serves malware-laden ads.
Pokémon Negro
October 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately October 2016, the Spanish Pokmon site Pokmon Negro suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of 830k accounts including email and IP addresses along with plain text passwords. Pokmon Negro did not respond when contacted about the breach.
Large LED video screen billboard in South Jakarta
September 30, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker or a group of hackers hack into the computer system of a large LED video screen billboard in the Kebayoran Baru district of South Jakarta and replace the advertisement on the screen with pornographic content for a short period of time.
newseasims
September 30, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
A hacker going by the handle of "Websites Hunter" hacks newseasims.com, a website that offers custom content for Sims video games from Electronic Arts, and leaks personal details of 118,000 customers/users.
Justdate.com
September 29, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
An alleged breach of the dating website Justdate.com began circulating in approximately September 2016. Comprised of over 24 million records, the data contained various personal attributes such as email addresses, dates of birth and physical locations. However, upon verification with HIBP subscribers, only a fraction of the data was found to be accurate and no account owners recalled using the Justdate.com service. This breach has consequently been flagged as fabricated; it's highly unlikely the data was sourced from Justdate.com.
Bellingcat
September 29, 2016
•[ espionage, technology ]
ThreatConnect reveals that investigative journalism group Bellingcat, that helped to investigate the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 have been targeted in a series of sophisticated attacks by pro-Russia group Fancy Bear.
i-dressup
September 26, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Un unknown hacker downloads more than 2.2 million of improperly stored account credentials from i-dressup.com, a social hangout website for teenage girls.
H&L Australia
September 20, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackers claim to have hacked Australian point-of-sale technology (PoS) company H&L Australia, and offer the database for sale. They were already offering it for sale for AU$22,000 ($16,580, 12,723) more than two months ago.
modaco
September 20, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Modaco.com, a UK-based forum dedicated to the Android operating system is breached, with nearly 800,000 usernames and passwords stolen by hackers. The attack dates back to January 2016.
Unknown Organization
September 18, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are knocked offline by yet another denial-of-service (DDoS) attack claimed by hacking group PoodleCorp.
