Steam
March 24, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
A malicious user going by the handle of bluebunny14 exploits the open submission structure of Steam's Greenlight section to briefly hide malware links in cloned versions of five legitimate game pages.
Greatfire
March 20, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Chinese activist site Greatfire.org, which masks censored traffic into the country, suffers a DDoS attack that racks up $30,000 a day in server costs.
VNPT
March 16, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
More than 50,000 accounts of customers of Vietnam's state-run telecom giant VNPT are stolen and leaked on the Internet over the weekend.
Snail
March 14, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2015, the gaming website Snail suffered a data breach that impacted 1.4 million subscribers. The impacted data included usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
British Telecom
March 13, 2015
•[ espionage, misconfiguration, technology ]
Internet traffic for 167 important British Telecom customers, including a UK defense contractor that helps deliver the country's nuclear warhead program, are mysteriously diverted to servers in Ukraine before being passed along to their final destination.
5elafa Book
March 12, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
5elafa Book', a pro-ISIS Facebook clone is forced offline after just a day; and a linked Twitter account was shut down by supporters of the Anonymous collective.
MyBB
March 11, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
MyBB reveals that its official Twitter profile and a staff member's accounts were hijacked in late January.
DhakaFM904
March 11, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
An unknown hacker hacks dhakafm904.com (a web radio) and dumps 1,149 records with usernames and hashed passwords.
Ben Phillips
March 9, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Viner Ben Phillips says his account has been hacked and all his videos deleted after he revealed he can earn up to 12,000 a clip.
epicpr
March 7, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
FRID4Y AKA @_FRID4Y_ hacks epicpr.com and dumps 21,500 usernames and clear text passwords.
Rublev
March 5, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The services of religious-centric Russian search engine "Rublev" are interrupted by a DDoS attack about five hours after being launched to the public.
000webhost
March 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately March 2015, the free web hosting provider 000webhost suffered a major data breach that exposed almost 15 million customer records. The data was sold and traded before 000webhost was alerted in October. The breach included names, email addresses and plain text passwords.
HongFire
March 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2015, the anime and manga forum HongFire suffered a data breach. The hack of their vBulletin forum led to the exposure of 1 million accounts along with email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 passwords.
StarNet
February 26, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In February 2015, the Moldavian ISP "StarNet" had it's database published online. The dump included nearly 140k email addresses, many with personal details including contact information, usage patterns of the ISP and even passport numbers.
Komodia
February 23, 2015
•[ ddos, technology ]
Komodia.com, home to the SSL interception module at the heart of the Superfish controversy, is the victim of a DDoS attack.
RedTube
February 18, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
After xHamster, RedTube is the second adult site that is compromised to redirect the user to the Angler Exploit Kit.
BigFish Games
February 18, 2015
•[ financial, hack, technology ]
Casual gaming company Big Fish Games has its site and the personal and financial information of some of its users compromised in an attack that started on last Christmas Eve.
Antonio Cesaro
February 17, 2015
•[ hack, social, technology ]
The official verified Twitter account of WWE superstar Antonio Cesaro (@WWECesaro) is hacked by unknown hackers wishing cancer to the company's Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon.
Xbox Live
February 17, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Hacking group Lizard Squad returns with a couple of alleged fresh attacks against Microsoft's Xbox Live Service and Daybreak Service, the studio formerly known as Sony Entertainment Online.
kiwiblitz
February 17, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
@GroundingPlanes and @Guidelines hack kiwiblitz.com and dump about 9,000 usernames and hashed passwords.
