NIC
December 17, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Turkey National Domain Registrar NIC.tr is the victim of a sustained DDoS attack that affects the entire national Internet infrastructure.
Moonfruit
December 14, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
After suffering a DDoS attack by the infamous Armada Collective, Moonfruit takes down all the websites to enhance the defences and avoid to pay the ransom.
Easily
December 11, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In a letter to customers, UK web hosting firm Easily.co.uk reveals to have suffered a targeted attack which exposed an unspecified number of customer domain names.
DNS root servers
December 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
On November 30, 2015 and December 1, 2015, over two separate intervals, several of the Internet Domain Name System's root name servers are the target of a massive DDoS attack.
Nexus Mods
December 8, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Nexus Mods announces a potential database breach. The breach includes information for about 6 million users, but the database that was breached was last updated on July 22nd, 2013.
http://artrookie
December 7, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Rubber AKA @smitt3nz hacks artrookie.co.uk and dumps 1,710 usernames and hashed passwords.
Aternos
December 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In December 2015, the service for creating and running free Minecraft servers known as Aternos suffered a data breach that impacted 1.4 million subscribers. The data included usernames, email and IP addresses and hashed passwords.
TuneCore
December 3, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Tunecore is breached. The company reveals that the data that may have been accessed includes names, email, addresses, mailing addresses, account numbers, and passwords.
Meta-Fusion GmbH
December 2, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The second round of the campaign of the Anonymous against the Cop21 (the United Nations Conference of Climate Change) kicks off. The hacktivists hack the website of Meta-Fusion GmbH, a Germany-based official Webcast Streaming Service Provider for the UNFC.
The Barbados Advocate
December 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The Barbados Advocate, the second most dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados is defaced by the Muslim Electronic Army.
Programming Forums
December 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
http://www
November 23, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
RyanDa1338 hacks hortinews.co.ke and dumps 42,065 usernames and hashed passwords.
Linux Australia
November 22, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Linux Australia allegedly suffers a second leak of data from its servers, according to a message sent to its main mailing list by president Joshua Hesketh.
Landesk
November 18, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Landesk alerts employees that a data breach may have exposed their personal information. According to some internal sources, the attackers first broke into Landesk network in June 2014.
MajorGeeks
November 15, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In November 2015, almost 270k accounts from the MajorGeeks support forum were breached. The accounts were being actively sold and traded online and included email addresses, salted password hashes and IP addresses.
Graham Cluley Blog
November 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The website of the security blogger Graham Cluley (https://grahamcluley.com) is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Comcast
November 11, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Comcast resets 200k cleartext passwords, after a hacker known as Orion claims to have stolen the database and puts it on sale on the dark web. Nearly 590,000 users could have been compromised.
Ammyy
November 11, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
The installer of the remote desktop software Ammyy is compromised and distributes the tools used by the Buhtrap gang to spy on and control their victims' computers.
Spotify
November 10, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Newsweek reveals that over one thousand email addresses and passwords from the musing streaming app Spotify were leaked following a hack.
Hushmail
November 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hushmail experiences two unscheduled service outages resulting from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
