Seagate
March 1, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
Seagate is the last victim of a payroll phish. A Seagate employee sends the data to an outside e-mail address after receiving an e-mail purportedly from Seagate's CEO Stephen Luczo requesting 2015 W-2 data for current and former Seagate employees.
Mate1
February 29, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
A hacker on the dark web forum Hell claims to have sold the email addresses and plaintext passwords of over 27 million users of dating site Mate1.com.
KM.RU
February 29, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In February 2016, the Russian portal and email service KM.RU was the target of an attack which was consequently detailed on Reddit. Allegedly protesting "the foreign policy of Russia in regards to Ukraine", KM.RU was one of several Russian sites in the breach and impacted almost 1.5M accounts including sensitive personal information.
primodominio
February 27, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
LulzSec Italia hacks primodominio.it and dumps 126,422 usernames and passwords.
Linux Mint
February 21, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In February 2016, the website for the Linux distro known as Linux Mint was hacked and the ISO infected with a backdoor. The site also ran a phpBB forum which was subsequently put up for sale complete with almost 145k email addresses, passwords and other personal subscriber information.
Linux Mint Distribution
February 20, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Clem Lefebvre, the creator of the Linux Mint Distribution reveals that an intrusion on the distribution's web site took place, in which hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack the website to point to it.
Bohemia Interactive
February 19, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Bohemia Interactive announces a potential security breach of the Mantis Feedback Tracker systems, used to collect feedback and bug reports for the games Arma 3 and DayZ.
SkTorrent
February 19, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2016, the Slovak torrent tracking site SkTorrent was hacked and over 117k records leaked online. The data dump included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
bfsihiring
February 17, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Bravewanderer hacks bfsihiring.com and dumps 24,317 usernames and clear text passwords.
Difference Games
February 16, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Team Fursec hack differencegames.com and dump 16,589 usernames and hashed passwords.
Spotify
February 15, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Hundreds of Spotify Premium account details are compromised and leaked online by an unknown hacker. A number of separate data dumps containing email addresses, passwords, account types and renewal dates appear online.
Xbox Live
February 15, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The New World Hackers crew takes down the Xbox Live Service.
Webafrica
February 12, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In name of #OpAfrica, Tobitow, a member of Team Hack Argentino and Anonymous Argentina, exploit a vulnerability in the Web hosting service of Webafrica and defaced 2,532 South African websites.
digitalnintendo
February 11, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hackers hacks digitalnintendo.com and dumps 23,000+ usernames and hashed passwords.
Broadband Systems Corporation (bsc.rw)
February 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Hacktivists kick off their #OpAfrica and breached the backend of the Broadband Systems Corporation.
Roosh V
February 4, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Roosh V, the controversial 'neo-masculinist', claims to have been doxxed by an online group associated with Anonymous.
Flash Flash Revolution (2016 breach)
February 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In February 2016, the music-based rhythm game known as Flash Flash Revolution was hacked and 1.8M accounts were exposed. Along with email and IP addresses, the vBulletin forum also exposed salted MD5 password hashes.
pastebin
January 30, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Pastebin is taken down by a huge DDoS attack.
CPanel
January 28, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
CPanel says the company has managed to repel a cyberattack against servers containing customer data. One of the cPanel customer databases might have been breached.
valleyevents
January 28, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks valleyevents.ca and dumps 4.646 usernames and hashed passwords.
