Linode
December 29, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Virtual server host Linode is the target of a four day-long DDoS attack.
Steam
December 25, 2015
•[ ddos, misconfiguration, technology ]
A DDoS attack against Steam causes the company to deploy a new caching configuration in production, which leads to the inadvertent exposure of 34,000 users.
Unknown Organization
December 25, 2015
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
Members of the Anonymous hacker collective deface the Asia Pacific Telecommunity website (apt.int), gain access to the site's admin panel and also manage to get their hands on a database dump.
EA
December 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad, the group of hackers who threatened to ruin Christmas for gamers decide to keep their promise and take down the Electronic Arts servers.
Sanrio Digital
December 21, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
Chris Vickery, a security researcher discovers a leaked database of more than 3.3 million user accounts for Sanriotown.com and other Sanrio-owned websites like hellokitty.com and mymelody.com.
Xbox Live
December 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad prepare their Christmas campaign and claim responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft's Xbox Live service.
Juniper Networks
December 17, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Juniper Networks issues an urgent security advisory about "unauthorized code" found within the operating system used by some of the company's firewalls and Secure Service Gateway appliances.
NIC
December 17, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Turkey National Domain Registrar NIC.tr is the victim of a sustained DDoS attack that affects the entire national Internet infrastructure.
Moonfruit
December 14, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
After suffering a DDoS attack by the infamous Armada Collective, Moonfruit takes down all the websites to enhance the defences and avoid to pay the ransom.
Easily
December 11, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In a letter to customers, UK web hosting firm Easily.co.uk reveals to have suffered a targeted attack which exposed an unspecified number of customer domain names.
DNS root servers
December 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
On November 30, 2015 and December 1, 2015, over two separate intervals, several of the Internet Domain Name System's root name servers are the target of a massive DDoS attack.
Nexus Mods
December 8, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Nexus Mods announces a potential database breach. The breach includes information for about 6 million users, but the database that was breached was last updated on July 22nd, 2013.
http://artrookie
December 7, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Rubber AKA @smitt3nz hacks artrookie.co.uk and dumps 1,710 usernames and hashed passwords.
Aternos
December 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In December 2015, the service for creating and running free Minecraft servers known as Aternos suffered a data breach that impacted 1.4 million subscribers. The data included usernames, email and IP addresses and hashed passwords.
TuneCore
December 3, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Tunecore is breached. The company reveals that the data that may have been accessed includes names, email, addresses, mailing addresses, account numbers, and passwords.
Meta-Fusion GmbH
December 2, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The second round of the campaign of the Anonymous against the Cop21 (the United Nations Conference of Climate Change) kicks off. The hacktivists hack the website of Meta-Fusion GmbH, a Germany-based official Webcast Streaming Service Provider for the UNFC.
The Barbados Advocate
December 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
The Barbados Advocate, the second most dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados is defaced by the Muslim Electronic Army.
Programming Forums
December 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
http://www
November 23, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
RyanDa1338 hacks hortinews.co.ke and dumps 42,065 usernames and hashed passwords.
Linux Australia
November 22, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Linux Australia allegedly suffers a second leak of data from its servers, according to a message sent to its main mailing list by president Joshua Hesketh.
