Unknown Organization
October 15, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
An Islamist hacker called Abdellah Elmaghribi defaces Adult Magazine, an online blog about graduate students having sex.
Matthew Craig (matthdgamer)
October 8, 2015
•[ social, technology ]
Six of the most successful FIFA video gamers to feature on YouTube are targeted by cyber-thieves, who are able to steal millions of FIFA coins, the in-game currency, and delete valuable players. The attackers are thought to have convinced manufacturer EA to transfer their victims' Origin accounts to email addresses the hackers controlled.
dutchwow
September 30, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
0x0D1337 hacks dutchwow.com (a private World of Warcraft server) and dumps 3,917 records containing usernames and hashed passwords.
PSP ISO
September 25, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately September 2015, the PlayStation PSP forum known as PSP ISO was hacked and almost 1.3 million accounts were exposed. Along with email and IP addresses, the vBulletin forum also exposed salted MD5 password hashes.
8chan
September 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Imgur, the photo-sharing website, is exploited in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the popular imageboards 4chan and 8chan.
Ceph
September 18, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Red Hat reveals to have suffered an intrusion on the sites of both the Ceph community project (ceph.com) and Inktank (download.inktank.com) that resulted in signed code being accessed.
Final Fantasy Shrine
September 18, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In September 2015, the Final Fantasy discussion forum known as FFShrine was breached and the data dumped publicly. Approximately 620k records were released containing email addresses, IP addresses and salted hashes of passwords.
Forbes
September 15, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Forbes is notified of a malvertising campaign on its website running from 8 to 15 September. The company states to have removed the offending ads.
Mozilla Bugzilla
September 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Mozilla reveals that an attacker stole security-sensitive vulnerability information from the Mozilla's Bugzilla bug tracking system and probably used it to attack Firefox users. The attacker may have had access since September 2013.
http://www
September 3, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Two hackers dubbed ConnectingFriend and KheXan rOot hack askmebazaar.com and dump 2,105 user records.
mumsnet
August 27, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mumsnet is hit by a new wave of DDoS attacks.
ClearVoice Surveys
August 23, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2021, the market research surveys company ClearVoice Surveys had a publicly facing database backup from 2015 taken and redistributed on a popular hacking forum. The data included 15M unique email addresses across more than 17M rows of data that also included names, physical and IP addresses, genders, dates of birth and plain text passwords. ClearVoice Surveys advised they were aware of the breach and confirmed its authenticity.
Tianwang
August 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Tianwang, a rights and citizen journalism website based in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan says its operations have been paralyzed by an external attack.
OneBookShelf
August 12, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
OneBookShelf, the operator of websites that sell games and comics as PDFs and print-on-demand publications, notifies customers that it suffered a hacker attack that obtained some credit card information.
Sabre Corporation
August 7, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Sabre Corp., which processes reservations for hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotels, confirm that its systems were breached recently. The company was probably hacked as part of the same wave of attacks that targeted insurer Anthem Inc. and the U.S. military.
http://itembay
August 6, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
l1kw1d hacks itembay.ca, an online game virtual currency provider and dumps 4,330 usernames with clear text passwords.
Hover
August 5, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Website domain name registrar Hover emails users warning of possible "unauthorised access" to one of its systems, telling them that they will not be able to log into the service until they reset their passwords.
Andy Weir
August 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Andy Weir, the creator of The Martian has his Twitter and e-mail accounts hacked.
Dota 2 Servers
August 4, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The International, the annual tournament for Valve's Dota 2, featuring dozens of players and millions in prize money, is put on hold when a DDoS attack takes down the game's servers.
Red Granite Pictures
July 30, 2015
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Red Granite Pictures, claims in a new lawsuit that it has been the subject of a malicious hack that has allowed the attackers to intimidate employees and disrupt its business via a mass emails campaign.
