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.
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.
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.
Reddit
May 27, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A surge in account hijacking and takeovers forces Reddit to reset 100,000 passwords.
scrum
May 26, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Scrum.org, the Scrum certification and training site contacts users to warn them of a security breach.
NS1
May 25, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Unknown attackers have been directing an ever-changing army of bots in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against NS1, a major DNS and traffic management provider.
hypergen
May 24, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks hypergen.ch and dumps 22,000 accounts.
Fur Affinity
May 20, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Fur Affinity, a community people with an interest in anthropomorphic animal characters such as wolves and foxes is hacked and the hackers may have run off with email addresses and hashed passwords.
Pornhub[.]com
May 14, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Few days after kicking off its bug bounty problem, Pornhub is hacked by an underground researcher who claims to sell the access to a command execution shell for $1000.
Avention
May 13, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Avention, investigate data breaches affecting personal information of its employees.
Tumblr
May 12, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
65 million passwords of Tumblr are on sell on the underground. The company admitted to have suffered a breach on May 12.
Unnamed adult forum
May 12, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
An unnamed porn forum is hacked and details of 100,000 members leaked.
UserVoice
May 9, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
UserVoice admits to have suffered a cyberattack in April which has exposed sensitive data belonging to a small subset of users with administrator or contributor status (0.001%).
PerezHilton
May 9, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Cyphort Labs reveal the details of a malvertising campaign targeting PerezHilton.com
Rosebutt Board
May 9, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Some time prior to May 2016, the forum known as "Rosebutt Board" was hacked and 107k accounts were exposed. The self-described "top one board for anal fisting, prolapse, huge insertions and rosebutt fans" had email and IP addresses, usernames and weakly stored salted MD5 password hashes hacked from the IP.Board based forum.
Shotbow
May 9, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In May 2016, the multiplayer server for Minecraft service Shotbow announced they'd suffered a data breach. The incident resulted in the exposure of over 1 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA-256 password hashes.
51Degrees
May 8, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Mobile device detection company 51Degrees reveals to have been hacked.
Fling
May 6, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker called Peace claims to be selling tens of millions of user accounts for adult dating site Fling.com on the dark web, including information on sexual desires, preferences, and other personal details.
