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.
DAC Group
June 9, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
DAC Group suffers a security breach resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts. The data also contains 77,000 accounts from State Farm, an insurance company.
Twitter
June 7, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The same hacker who had links to the recent MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr data breaches, claims to have obtained a database from Twitter, which includes email addresses (and sometimes two per person), usernames, and plain-text passwords. Tessa88 is selling the cache for 10 bitcoins, or about $5,820 at the time of writing.
Drake's Twitter account (@Drake)
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Drake's Twitter account was taken over by an account called @2aiden3.
Kylie Jenner's Twitter account (@KylieJenner)
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Kylie Jenner is the latest celebrity to have her Twitter account hacked.
VK
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Russian social networking site VK.com appears to have been breached in 2012 with hackers selling some 100 million records for a mere US$580 in Bitcoins.
TeamViewer
June 4, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Users of the remote login service TeamViewer report their computers have been ransacked by attackers who somehow gained access to their accounts.
Facepunch
June 3, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In June 2016, the game development studio Facepunch suffered a data breach that exposed 343k users. The breached data included usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes. Facepunch advised they were aware of the incident and had notified people at the time. The data was provided to HIBP by whitehat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
Badoo
June 2, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
User accounts for dating site Badoo are being traded in the digital underground, including email address, cracked passwords, names, and dates of birth.
CNN
June 1, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Members of the Ghost Squad Hackers team, one of Anonymous' former subdivisions, take down the email servers of CNN and FOX News as part of a new hacktivism campaign dubbed OpSilence.
ForumCommunity
June 1, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid-2016, the Italian-based service for creating forums known as ForumCommunity suffered a data breach. The incident impacted over 776k unique email addresses along with usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes. No response was received from ForumCommunity when contacted.
Teracod
May 28, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In May 2015, almost 100k user records were extracted from the Hungarian torrent site known as Teracod. The data was later discovered being torrented itself and included email addresses, passwords, private messages between members and the peering history of IP addresses using the service.
Fiverr
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Fiverr suffers a six-hour DDoS attack after removing DDoS-for-Hire listings.
MySpace
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker hiding behind the email address Tessa88@exploit.im publishes a database containing 360 million records belonging to MySpace. The database is the alleged result of a breach that occurred in 2013.