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.
http://library
November 3, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Smitt3nz AKA Rubber hacks library.killersites.com and dumps the records of 1596 users.
vBulletin
November 3, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In November 2015, the forum software maker vBulletin suffered a serious data breach. The attack lead to the release of both forum user and customer accounts totalling almost 519k records. The breach included email addresses, birth dates, security questions and answers for customers and salted hashes of passwords for both sources.
R2Games
November 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In late 2015, the gaming website R2Games was hacked and more than 2.1M personal records disclosed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked. A further 11M accounts were added to "Have I Been Pwned" in March 2016 and another 9M in July 2016 bringing the total to over 22M.
Abandonia (2015)
November 1, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, the gaming website dedicated to classic DOS games Abandonia suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 776k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
Mac-Torrents
October 31, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no salt.
http://forums
October 30, 2015
•[ leak, hack, technology ]
A hacker dubbed mr.nsaany AKA @mr.nsaany hacks forums.phpfreaks.com and leaks the entire database (allegedly 173,000 users).
000Webhost
October 28, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
13 million passwords appear to have been leaked from 000Webhost, a free service provider.
PHP Freaks
October 27, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In October 2015, the PHP discussion board PHP Freaks was hacked and 173k user accounts were publicly leaked. The breach included multiple personal data attributes as well as salted and hashed passwords.
https://www
October 25, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
An anonymous hacker hacks amzreviewtrader.com and dumps nearly 2500 usernames and clear text passwords.
Unknown Organization
October 25, 2015
•[ hack, leak, ddos ]
In name of #OpSingleGateway (Thai government's single gateway plan) the Anomymous take down the website of CAT Telecom Pcl, and leaks some data allegedly stolen from the Telco company website.
Go Games
October 24, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately October 2015, the manga website Go Games suffered a data breach. The exposed data included 3.4M customer records including email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Go Games did not respond when contacted about the incident. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
TalkTalk
October 23, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
TalkTalk, a UK phone and broadband provider, warns its 4 million customers that attackers could have gained access to their names, addresses, credit card and bank details, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses and TalkTalk account information.
MPGH
October 22, 2015
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In October 2015, the multiplayer game hacking website MPGH was hacked and 3.1 million user accounts disclosed. The vBulletin forum breach contained usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted hashes of passwords.
http://www
October 20, 2015
•[ hack, magento, technology ]
And this is the example of a website hacked exploiting a Magento Vulnerability: a hacker dubbed ph1k3 hacks gobol.in and claims to have exploited a Magento vulnerability.
Narita International Airport
October 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
In the name of #OpKillingBay, the online protest against the dolphin slaughter, the Anonymous take down the two main Japanese Airports: Narita International Airport (www.narita-airport.jp) and Chubu Centrair International Airport (www.centrair.jp).
