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.
Hex-Rays
May 25, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Hex-Rays, developers of IDA (Interactive Disassembler) sends an email notification to its customers about a recent attack that may have resulted in the compromise of some license keys along with the web forum and the quotation system.
minecraftpeforum
May 24, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
@rmsg0d, a member of TeaMp0isoN, hacks minecraftpeforum.net (a Minecraft Pocket Edition Forum whose domain was recently expired) and dumps the forum's database containing 16,125 records with, usernames, passwords, and numerous other fields relating to for
Bitcointalk
May 22, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
LeakedSource reveals that Bitcointalk.org had 499,593 users hacked in May of 2015. Data contains usernames, emails, passwords, birthdays, secret questions, hashed secret answers and some other internal data.
Adult Friend Finder
May 21, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Personal information relating to almost 4 million users of a worldwide online dating website adultfriendfider.com is leaked on the Dark Web by unknown hackers. Details of users' sexual preferences, along with email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, postcodes and the unique internet addresses of users' computers are compromised.
VNG
May 19, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2018, news broke of a massive data breach impacting the Vietnamese company known as VNG after data was discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum where it was extensively redistributed. The breach dated back to an incident in May of 2015 and included of over 163 million customers. The data in the breach contained a wide range of personal attributes including usernames, birth dates, genders and home addresses along with unsalted MD5 hashes and 25 million unique email addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Спрашивай.ру
May 11, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In May 2015, . (a the Russian website for anonymous reviews) was reported to have had 6.7 million user details exposed by a hacker known as "w0rm". Intended to be a site for expressing anonymous opinions, the leaked data included email addresses, birth dates and other personally identifiable data about almost 3.5 million unique email addresses found in the leak.
Evermotion
May 7, 2015
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In May 2015, the Polish 3D modelling website known as Evermotion suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 435k unique user records. The data was sourced from a vBulletin forum and contained email addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
OVH
May 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2015, the forum for the hosting provider known as OVH suffered a data breach. The vBulletin forum contained 453k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
rediff
April 30, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
A Palestinian-friendly hacker going with the online handle HolaKo defaces a subdomain of rediff.com, a famous Indian news, information, shopping and entertainment web portal.
beastforum
April 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Anonymous target the world's largest animal abuse forum (beastforum.com) with a DDoS attack, forcing it to go offline.
SIGAINT
April 23, 2015
•[ technology ]
SIGAINT, an email service that resides mostly in the anonymization network Tor, is the victim of an unknown attacker who tries to compromise it by using a total of 70 bad exit nodes.
Pacnet
April 16, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Telstra notifies its customers of a data breach involving its Asian subsidiary Pacnet. Telstra is made aware of the breach on April 16, only after acquiring Pacnet.
Rossel
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Rossel, a Belgian media group, is the victim of a DDoS attack. One of Belgium's largest French-speaking newspapers, La Soir, along with others sites are affected and temporarily shut down. A new attack is executed the day after.
The Jewish Press
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Gaza Team, a pro-Palestinian group of hackers, hacks The Jewish Press. The site displays a black backdrop with a man holding ISIS-type flag. The team vows to hack many more pro-Israel websites in the future.
Betfair
April 14, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Online poker rooms are under a DDoS attack. The victims are Betfair, Unibet, and PokerStars.
