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.
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.
