Unknown Organization
November 9, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The UK social networking Xat (xat.com) is hacked and notifies the users that its database has been acquired by the attackers.
Fastmail
November 9, 2015
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
FastMail is hit by a DDoS attack that briefly make some services unavailable. A further attack is executed on Monday, 9 Nov. Both attacks are accompanied by an extortion demand that threaten further attacks if the company does not pay the attacker 20 Bitcoin.
Comcast
November 8, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, the US internet and cable TV provider Comcast suffered a data breach that exposed 590k customer email addresses and plain text passwords. A further 27k accounts appeared with home addresses with the entire data set being sold on underground forums.
Ancestry
November 7, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, an Ancestry service known as RootsWeb suffered a data breach. The breach was not discovered until late 2017 when a file containing almost 300k email addresses and plain text passwords was identified.
http://pixarra
November 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Eggfather hacks pixarra.com and dumps 8,525 usernames and hashed passwords.
http://www
November 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Eggfather hacks lonestarspeedzone.com and dumps 1,939 usernames and hashed passwords.
Touchnote
November 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The U.K.-based app for photo postcard service Touchnote notifies its registered customers that the company has been hacked and some personal information has possibly been compromised.
ProtonMail
November 5, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
A collective called Armada Collective takes down Protonmail, a Swiss provider of end-to-end encrypted email. The company pays a ransom of 15 BTC (6000 USD) but is taken down again after paying.
Runbox
November 5, 2015
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
Runbox is subjected to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Even in this case the attackers demand a ransom to stop the waves of attack.
Zoho
November 4, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Zoho is subject to a DDoS attack. The attack starts on November the 4th and affects the company for one week.
VFEmail
November 4, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
VFEmail is taken down by a DDoS attack. The attackers demand a ransom of 5 BTC (1700 USD).
xat
November 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In November 2015, the online chatroom known as "xat" was hacked and 6 million user accounts were exposed. Used as a chat engine on websites, the leaked data included usernames, email and IP addresses along with hashed passwords.
InterPals
November 4, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In late 2015, the online penpal site InterPals had their website hacked and 3.4 million accounts exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, geographical locations, birthdates and salted hashes of passwords.
http://library
November 3, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Smitt3nz AKA Rubber hacks library.killersites.com and dumps the records of 1596 users.
vBulletin
November 3, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In November 2015, the forum software maker vBulletin suffered a serious data breach. The attack lead to the release of both forum user and customer accounts totalling almost 519k records. The breach included email addresses, birth dates, security questions and answers for customers and salted hashes of passwords for both sources.
R2Games
November 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In late 2015, the gaming website R2Games was hacked and more than 2.1M personal records disclosed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked. A further 11M accounts were added to "Have I Been Pwned" in March 2016 and another 9M in July 2016 bringing the total to over 22M.
Abandonia (2015)
November 1, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, the gaming website dedicated to classic DOS games Abandonia suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 776k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
Mac-Torrents
October 31, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no salt.
http://forums
October 30, 2015
•[ leak, hack, technology ]
A hacker dubbed mr.nsaany AKA @mr.nsaany hacks forums.phpfreaks.com and leaks the entire database (allegedly 173,000 users).
000Webhost
October 28, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
13 million passwords appear to have been leaked from 000Webhost, a free service provider.
