Envato
July 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Envato, the network of marketplaces is under a two week-long DDoS attack.
Voat
July 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Voat, the news aggregator, is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Seedpeer
July 12, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2015, the torrent site Seedpeer was hacked and 282k member records were exposed. The data included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes.
WildStar
July 11, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the IP.Board forum for the gaming website WildStar suffered a data breach that exposed over 738k forum members' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and passwords.
Daybreak Games
July 10, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Daybreak Game Company is hit witha DDoS after its CEO threatens convicted Lizard Squad hacker Julius Kivimaki.
New Jersey Online Casinos
July 6, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
A hacker shuts down four New Jersey Internet gambling sites and threatens more cyberattacks over unless a ransom in BTC is paid.
Hacking Team
July 6, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In July 2015, the Italian security firm Hacking Team suffered a major data breach that resulted in over 400GB of their data being posted online via a torrent. The data searchable on "Have I Been Pwned?" is from 189GB worth of PST mail folders in the dump. The contents of the PST files is searchable on Wikileaks.
myRepoSpace
July 6, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the Cydia repository known as myRepoSpace was hacked and user data leaked publicly. Cydia is designed to facilitate the installation of apps on jailbroken iOS devices. The repository service was allegedly hacked by @its_not_herpes and 0x8badfl00d in retaliation for the service refusing to remove pirated tweaks.
Unknown Organization
July 5, 2015
•[ financial, misconfiguration, technology ]
Primedice, an online gaming/gambling site loses $1 million in bitcoin to an attacker who exploited its random number generation (RNG) system.
Hacking Team
July 5, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Hacking Team, the Italian company behind the infamous surveillance software is hacked. The attacker, allegedly the same author behind the attack on Gamma International (another surveillance software) dumps approximately 400Gb of data by hijacking the Hacking Team Twitter account.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
July 4, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In name of OpIndia, AnonOpsindia, a group affiliated to the Anonymous collective hacks BSNL and claims to have siphoned the entire database, which has sensitive information of over 30 million users.
Islam Channel
July 1, 2015
•[ espionage, technology ]
A threat actor compromised Islam Channel, a small UK TV station, in July 2015. In October 2018, the United Kingdom publicly attributed the compromise to Russian military intelligence.
CheapAssGamer.com
July 1, 2015
•[ leak, sqlinjection, technology ]
In approximately mid-2015, the forum for CheapAssGamer.com suffered a data breach. The database from the IP.Board based forum contained 445k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
iPmart
July 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
During 2015, the iPmart forum (now known as Mobi NUKE) was hacked and over 2 million forum members' details were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked. A further 368k accounts were added to "Have I Been Pwned" in March 2016 bringing the total to over 2.4M.
PS3Hax
July 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately July 2015, the Sony Playstation hacks and mods forum known as PS3Hax was hacked and more than 447k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Minefield
June 28, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2015, the French Minecraft server known as Minefield was hacked and 188k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Uber
June 15, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
A website hosting an Uber petition (petition.uber.org) calling on local government to allow its drivers to work on San Francisco's Market Street is defaced by a seemingly well-intentioned blogger, who also inserts a banner that automatically redirects visitors to a competitor's site.
Kaspersky Lab
June 10, 2015
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
Kaspersky discoveres an advanced attack on its own internal networks. The company is confident that there's a nation state behind it and calls the malware Duqu 2.0.
Freeparking
June 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Freeparking, a web hosting provider, is the target of a severe DDoS attack.
Westnet
June 6, 2015
•[ leak, hack, technology ]
Australia's third-largest internet service provider, iiNet, investigates claims that a database held by its subsidiary, Westnet, has been hacked and is being offered for sale by a hacker dubbed Mufasa.
