9Lives
October 1, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In October 2014, the (now defunct) Belgian gaming news forum 9Lives suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 109k unique email addresses along with usernames and salted MD5 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "Leidhall".
Ello
September 29, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The social network Ello is the target of a DDoS attack.
Activision Blizzard
September 23, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hackers from the group Lizard Squad reneged on their promise to quit earlier this month, apparently launching DDoS attacks against Blizzard's servers running Call Of Duty: Ghosts and Destiny.
jQuery
September 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
RiskIQ detects a credential-stealing malware being loaded onto users computers through a drive-by download at jQuery.com. The attack was carried out using RIG exploit kit to target visitors.
RT
September 17, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
RT.com is hit with the most powerful DDoS attack in the website's history, which reached 10 Gbps in strength.
Freenode
September 15, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Popular IRC network Freenode suffers a security breach and asks users to change their passwords, as they might have been compromised.
Vodafone Egypt
September 13, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker going with the handle of Ali El Top defaces two official sub-domains of Vodafone Egypt.
Tout
September 11, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately September 2014, the now defunct social networking service Tout suffered a data breach. The breach subsequently appeared years later and included 653k unique email addresses, names, IP addresses, the location of the user, their bio and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "nmapthis@protonmail.com".
EA Firemonkeys
September 9, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
EA confirms that its Australian studio EA Firemonkeys was hacked in September last year and that "a small number of customer email addresses were potentially obtained".
Satoshi Nakamoto
September 9, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
A hacker with the moniker of Jeffrey claims to have taken over the email account belonging to bitcoin's secretive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, saying he will sell Nakamoto's secrets for money.
Undisclosed industrial software company
September 2, 2014
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
AlienVault reveals the details of Scanbox, a watering hole attack compromising the website of an industrial software company to collect information on the site's visitors.
ClamCase
August 29, 2014
•[ hack, financial, technology ]
ClamCase, a maker of keyboards and protective cases for iPads, notifies its customers that unidentified intruders gained access to personal information and payment details.
hackforums
August 28, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
Hackforums.net, one of the most popular hacking forums in the world, is defaced by an Egyptian hacker with the online handle Eg-R1z.
Geekface
August 26, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Geekface notifies its users of an illegitimate access to one of its servers. The data accessed include personal information.
Frankie Grande
August 22, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
The Twitter account of Ariana Grande's brother, Frankie Grande is hacked. The attacker leaves an explicit message to his sister.
MeetMe
August 21, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
MeetMe users logging into the social network between Aug. 5 and Aug. 7 are asked to change their password after unknown hackers breach the MeetMe network and compromised certain user information.
OmegaNet
August 10, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
OmegaNet notifies 10 businesses in New Hampshire of a malware incident that was able to capture sensitive information before it was encrypted.
Gamma Group
August 8, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Gamma International UK Ltd, the company that makes and sells the world's most elusive cyber weapon, FinFisher spyware, is hacked by a group called Phineas Fisher (@GammaGroupPR), and has a 40G file dumped on the internet.
Pokémon Creed
August 8, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In August 2014, the Pokmon RPG website Pokmon Creed was hacked after a dispute with rival site, Pokmon Dusk. In a post on Facebook, "Cruz Dusk" announced the hack then pasted the dumped MySQL database on pkmndusk.in. The breached data included over 116k usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords.
Cirrus Communications
July 30, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The largest fixed wireless broadband carrier in Australia, Cirrus Communications, suffers a major DDoS attack, which takes out over half of its network.
