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
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.
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.
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.
Boris Dobrodeev
May 6, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Hacktivists from the Anonymous collective leak what could be the email inbox of Boris Dobrodeev, the former boss of Russian social network VK, previously known as VKontakte.
Nulled.IO
May 6, 2016
•[ leak, sqlinjection, technology ]
The Nulled.IO forum is compromised and its data consequently leaked, consisting of a 9.45GB SQL file.
Nulled.cr
May 6, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In May 2016, the cracking community forum known as Nulled.cr was hacked and 599k user accounts were leaked publicly. The compromised data included email and IP addresses, weak salted MD5 password hashes and hundreds of thousands of private messages between members.
Neopets
May 5, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Tens of millions of user accounts from virtual pets community Neopets are hacked and traded on the criminal underground.
hortinews.co.ke
May 1, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
42,000+ usernames and passwords appear in the dark web.
