Epic Games
August 11, 2016
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In August 2016, the Epic Games forum suffered a data breach, allegedly due to a SQL injection vulnerability in vBulletin. The attack resulted in the exposure of 252k accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
PAR Technology
August 11, 2016
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Forbes reveals that the Carbanak Gang also breached 5 more cash registers providers.
MICROS
August 8, 2016
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
The Carbanak Gang appears to have compromised a customer support portal for companies using Oracle's MICROS point-of-sale credit card payment systems, and used that access to steal administrative credentials and implant malicious code on 700 terminals.
michaelphelps
August 7, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
New World Hackers claim responsibility for taking down the personal website of Michael Phelps.
Wishbone (2016)
August 7, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults.
Alexa Losey Twitter Account
August 6, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
The OurMine collective hacks the Twitter account of popular Youtuber Alexa Losey.
GTAOnline
August 4, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
And this time the PoodleCorp collective claims to have taken down the GTA (Grand Theft Auto) website.
PlayStation Network
August 4, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The PoodleCorp collective claims to have taken down the PlayStation Network servers.
Unknown Organization
August 3, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are hit by a massive DDoS attack causing latency, connection and login issues across popular games such as Overwatch, World of Warcraft and Hearthstone.
League of Legends
August 3, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
And the PoodleCorp collective also claims to have taken down the website of League of Legends (leagueoflegends.com)
Romelu Lukaku's Instagram Account
August 3, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Romelu Lukaku, the Everton footballer is the latest celebrity to have his Instagram account hacked.
Unknown Organization
August 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
123-Reg is taken down by a massive DDoS attack.
Unknown Organization
August 2, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
A hacking crew that goes by the name of PeggleCrew compromises Fosshub and embedded malware inside the files hosted on the website and offered for download.
Iranian Telegram users
August 2, 2016
•[ espionage, hack, leak ]
Iranian hackers linked to the state sponsored group called Rocket Kitten have compromised more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users.
Yahoo!
August 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Peace, the hacker who has previously sold dumps of Myspace and LinkedIn, lists 200 million supposed credentials of Yahoo users on The Real Deal marketplace. Yahoo confirms to be aware of the claim.
GTAGaming
August 1, 2016
•[ leak, hack, technology ]
In August 2016, the Grand Theft Auto forum GTAGaming was hacked and nearly 200k user accounts were leaked. The vBulletin based forum included usernames, email addresses and password hashes.
Roblox
July 31, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2016, Roblox disclosed a data breach that affected over 50k users. The security incident impacted email and IP addresses, usernames, purchases and Robux balances which were left exposed on a test server.
AdultSingleSites
July 15, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In name of the same campaign ElSurveillance leaks 67,118 user records from adultsinglesites.com.au.
AfrikaDating
July 15, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
ElSurveillance continues his #EscortsOffline campaign and leaks 12,738 user records from afrikadating.com.
i-Dressup
July 15, 2016
•[ leak, sqlinjection, technology ]
In June 2016, the teen social site known as i-Dressup was hacked and over 2 million user accounts were exposed. At the time the hack was reported, the i-Dressup operators were not contactable and the underlying SQL injection flaw remained open, allegedly exposing a total of 5.5 million accounts. The breach included email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
