Deutsche Telekom
June 27, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Deutsche Telekom has warned its customers that it found account passwords for sale on the dark web.
Whitepages
June 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2016, the telephone and address directory service Whitepages was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included over 11 million unique email addresses alongside names and passwords stored as either a SHA-1 or bcrypt hash. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
lookbook.nu
June 26, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Login data of Lookbook's 1.1 million users is available on the darknet for sale.
WatchMojo YouTube channel
June 25, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp deface two YouTube Popular Channels: WatchMojo and Redmercy.
Carbonite
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Online backup service Carbonite forces users to pick new passwords in the wake of discovering that it was under a large-scale account takeover attack.
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.
