OVH
May 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2015, the forum for the hosting provider known as OVH suffered a data breach. The vBulletin forum contained 453k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
rediff
April 30, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
A Palestinian-friendly hacker going with the online handle HolaKo defaces a subdomain of rediff.com, a famous Indian news, information, shopping and entertainment web portal.
beastforum
April 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Anonymous target the world's largest animal abuse forum (beastforum.com) with a DDoS attack, forcing it to go offline.
SIGAINT
April 23, 2015
•[ technology ]
SIGAINT, an email service that resides mostly in the anonymization network Tor, is the victim of an unknown attacker who tries to compromise it by using a total of 70 bad exit nodes.
Pacnet
April 16, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Telstra notifies its customers of a data breach involving its Asian subsidiary Pacnet. Telstra is made aware of the breach on April 16, only after acquiring Pacnet.
Rossel
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Rossel, a Belgian media group, is the victim of a DDoS attack. One of Belgium's largest French-speaking newspapers, La Soir, along with others sites are affected and temporarily shut down. A new attack is executed the day after.
The Jewish Press
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Gaza Team, a pro-Palestinian group of hackers, hacks The Jewish Press. The site displays a black backdrop with a man holding ISIS-type flag. The team vows to hack many more pro-Israel websites in the future.
Betfair
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Online poker rooms are under a DDoS attack. The victims are Betfair, Unibet, and PokerStars.
alhayat
April 13, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In name of #OpSaudi, the Yemen Cyber Army hacks alhayat.com and dumps 926 records including usernames and hashed passwords.
Linux Australia
April 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Linux Australia warns its members and conference attendees that their personal information may have fallen into the hands of online criminals, following a breach of the organisation's servers.
domainstream
April 1, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
PH1K3 hacks domainstream.se and dumps 1,149 records with Personally Identifiable Information
SweClockers.com
April 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In early 2015, the Swedish tech news site SweClockers was hacked and 255k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of usernames, email addresses and salted hashes of passwords stored with a combination of MD5 and SHA512.
Hostgator
March 31, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The pro-Bashar Al Assad hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army claim to have hacked popular hosting companies running under the Endurance International Group. The list of hacked hosting companies include Bluehost, Fastdomain, Hostgator, Hostmonster and Justhost.
Multiplay
March 30, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Some of the systems administered by Multiplay, a company hosting gaming events, are accessed by an unauthorized entity, which may have resulted in exposing users' account details.
Puush
March 30, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The screen sharing platform Puush is hit by a cyber attack that injected malware into a server. Users are prompted to uninstall the app and change important passwords that were stored on PCs as well as those saved in major browsers.
Virgil Films
March 28, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
R3dm0v3 hacks virgilfilmsent.com and dumps 3,482 usernames and passwords.
pvpserverin
March 28, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Ebu Duhan hacks pvpserverin.com and dumps 2,614 usernames and passwords.
Slack
March 27, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Slack announces on its corporate blog that it was hacked over the course of four days in February, and that some number of users' data was compromised. The breach releases email addresses and potentially phone numbers of its 500,000 users.
Xtube
March 25, 2015
•[ malware, technology ]
Another adult site used to distribute malware. This time the victim is Xtube, whose main page is compromised to redirect the user to a site hosting the Neutrino Exploit Kit.
EllisLab
March 24, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
EllisLab admits to have suffered a breach after hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to its servers via a PHP backdoor.
