majorgeeks
May 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
270,000 reccords from majorgeeks.com appear on the dark web.
Gryphon Technologies
April 30, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
Gryphon Technologies joins the list of the companies falling victim to W-2 phishing scams.
17 (an app particularly popular in Asia)
April 29, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A hacker advertises a cache of 20,000 email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app '17', which is particularly popular in Asia.
Laremy Tunsil Twitter account
April 29, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Laremy Tunsil, a college football player has his Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked.
The Pirate Bay
April 27, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
Malwarebytes identifies a malvertising campaign on The Pirate Bay, distributing the Cerber Malware via the Magnitude Exploit Kit. The attackers took advantage of the leak of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.
Lifeboat Minecraft Community
April 26, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Over seven million user accounts belonging to members of Minecraft community "Lifeboat" are hacked.
BeautifulPeople
April 25, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Forbes reveal that unknown hackers were able to hack Beautifulpeople.com and leak the personal details of 1.1M members.
Spotify
April 25, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials, including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details, appears on Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible hack. The company, asked, denies the incident.
17
April 19, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2016, customer data obtained from the streaming app known as "17" appeared listed for sale on a Tor hidden service marketplace. The data contained over 4 million unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
gamescollection
April 15, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks gamescollection.it and dumps 1,274 usernames and hashed passwords.
Unknown Organization
April 14, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are taken down by a DDoS attack.
The Fappening Forum
April 13, 2016
•[ hack, ransomware, malware ]
The Fappening Forum is hacked, exposing 179,000 accounts. After the breach the forum is hit by malvertising distributing ransomware.
KnownCircle
April 12, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately April 2016, the "marketing automation for agents and professional service providers" company KnownCircle had a large volume of data obtained by an external party. The data belonging to the now defunct service appeared in JSON format and contained gigabytes of data related to the real estate and insurance sectors. The personal data in the breach appears to have primarily been used for marketing purposes, including logs of emails sent and tracking of gift cards. A small number of passwords for KnownCircle staff were also present and were stored as bcrypt hashes.
Guns and Robots
April 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately April 2016, the gaming website Guns and Robots suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 143k unique records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and SHA-1 password hashes. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
gumtree
March 25, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Malwarebytes reveals the details of a malvertising campaign, distributing the infamous Angler Exploit Kit, and targeting gumtree.com.au.
OpSec Security
March 25, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
OpSec Security joins the list of the companies who have fallned victim to email scams, as a consequence the 2015 W-2 tax forms for current and former employees are compromised.
vbulletin
March 24, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Administrators of the vBulletin forums start a site-wide password reset operation after an unknown attacker gained access to one of their servers.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions
March 24, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
The contact information on some 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise is published on an underground forum. The company confirms to have recently discovered and remediated a security vulnerability on its enterprise client portal.
Harry Styles
March 20, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
One Direction singer Harry Styles and his alleged girlfriend Kendall Jenner have their personal photos leaked online after iCloud account hack.
Tuned Global
March 16, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, data from a number of breached services including Tuned Global were released to a public hacking forum. The breach appears to date back to 2016 and includes 985k records containing email addresses, names, a small number of physical addresses and phone numbers and passwords stored in plain text.
