Landesk
November 18, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Landesk alerts employees that a data breach may have exposed their personal information. According to some internal sources, the attackers first broke into Landesk network in June 2014.
MajorGeeks
November 15, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In November 2015, almost 270k accounts from the MajorGeeks support forum were breached. The accounts were being actively sold and traded online and included email addresses, salted password hashes and IP addresses.
Graham Cluley Blog
November 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The website of the security blogger Graham Cluley (https://grahamcluley.com) is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Comcast
November 11, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Comcast resets 200k cleartext passwords, after a hacker known as Orion claims to have stolen the database and puts it on sale on the dark web. Nearly 590,000 users could have been compromised.
Ammyy
November 11, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
The installer of the remote desktop software Ammyy is compromised and distributes the tools used by the Buhtrap gang to spy on and control their victims' computers.
Spotify
November 10, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
Newsweek reveals that over one thousand email addresses and passwords from the musing streaming app Spotify were leaked following a hack.
Hushmail
November 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hushmail experiences two unscheduled service outages resulting from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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.
