Last Updated on August 2, 2011

This awful infosec July is over, and finally we can sum up the Cyber Attacks reported during this month. I collected all the available information and inserted it inside the following chart. Where possible (that is enough information available) I tried to estimate the cost of the attacks using the indications from the Ponemon’s insitute according to which the average cost of a Data Breach is US $214 for each compromised record. The total sum (for the known attacks) is around $7.6 billion, mainly due to the “National Data Breach” of the South Korean Social Network Cyworld.

Approximately 16 attacks were directly or indirectly related to Antisec or Anonymous, they promised an hot summer and unfortunately are keeping their word…

Useful resources for compiling the (very long) chart were taken from:

• CNET Hacker Chart
• Data Loss DB Open Security Foundation

¹ http://www.zeropaid.com/news/94099/abhaxas-dumps-details-of-the-internal-florida-voting-database-online/
² http://www.pcworld.com/article/235016/hackers_claim_apple_online_data_was_compromised.html
³ http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/07/fox-news-twitter-account-hacked-by.html
⁴ http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/05/sony-music-ireland-hackers/
⁵ http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20077268-245/sophisticated-attack-targets-two-energy-dept-labs
⁶ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/dump-up-the-kids/
⁷ http://www.zeropaid.com/news/94250/abhaxas-hacks-floridas-voting-system-again/
⁸ http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2086749/anonymous-boasts-takedown-turkish-sites
⁹ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/08/patriotic_portuguese_hackers_hit_moody/
¹⁰ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/another-fbi-contractor-hacked/^5
11 http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/German-Federal-Police-servers-compromised-1276115.html
¹² http://www.hackersbay.in/2011/07/anonymous-shuts-down-ministry-of.html
¹³ http://www.kiplinger.com/securityfaq/
¹⁴ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/another-one-bytes-the-dump/
¹⁵ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/monsanto-hack-info-of-2500-employees-leaked/
¹⁶ http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/07/toshiba-database-hacked-and-user.html
¹⁷ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/the-mother-of-all-breaches/
¹⁸ http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/07/16/lady-gaga-website-hacked-and-fans-details-stolen-115875-23274356/
¹⁹ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-lulzsec-boat-is-back-and-sails-under-the-sun/
²⁰ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20081405-83/anonymous-claims-to-have-breached-nato-security
²¹ http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/07/24/philippians-congress-hacked-by-bashcrew/
²² http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/22/anonplus-anonymouss-social-network-is-hacked/
²³ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/anonplus-hacked-again-by-syrian-group/
²⁴ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/italian-cyber-police-hacked/
²⁵ http://austrianindependent.com/news/Business/2011-07-26/8537/ORF_hack_attack_worse_than_feared
²⁶ http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110728000881
²⁷ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/anonymous-claims-another-fbi-contractor-hacked/
²⁸ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/italian-anonymous-owned/
²⁹ http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/its-a-cruel-summer/
³⁰ http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/07/italys-police-it-network-vitrocisetit.html

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