Last Updated on May 24, 2015

This infamous 2011 is nearly gone and here it is the last post for this year concerning the 2011 Cyber Attacks Timeline. As you will soon see from an infosec perspective this month has been characterized by two main events: the LulzXmas with its terrible Stratfor hack (whose effects are still ongoing with the recent release of 860,000 accounts), and an unprecented wave of breaches in China which led to the dump of nearly 88 million of users for a theoretical cost of nearly $19 million (yes the Sony brech is close). For the rest an endless cyberwar between India and Pakistan, some hactivism and (unfortunately) the usual amounts of “minor” breaches and defacement. After the page break you find all the references.

Last but not least… This post is my very personal way to wish you a happy new infosec year.

  1. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Leaks-Information-on-Senators-who-Passed-NDAA-241675.shtml
  2. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-22/china-based-hacking-of-760-companies-shows-cyber-cold-war.html
  3. http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=4336
  4. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/16/dump-of-accounts-from-biclopsgames-com/
  5. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/18/sarah-hilary-obama-and-many-others-taken-down-again-by-opblackout/
  6. http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/strange-coincidences/
  7. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/18/2000-spanish-society-of-hospital-pharmacy-user-accounts-leaked/
  8. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/18/300-webalain-ch-accounts-leaked/
  9. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/21/more-government-website-logins-dumped/
  10. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/25/microsoft-asus-stanfordoxfordmanchester-uni-hacked-and-defaced/
  11. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Lady-Gaga-s-Twitter-Account-Hacked-to-Post-Spam-241807.shtml
  12. http://zone-h.com/archive/notifier=INDISHELL
  13. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/21/1500-sites-defaced-by-team-grey-hat/
  14. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/21/thehosting-me-hacked-and-server-information-and-accounts-dumped/
  15. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204058404577110541568535300.html#project%3DCHAMBER122111
  16. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=22324
  17. http://thehackernews.com/2011/12/china-software-developer-network-csdn-6.html
  18. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-International
  19. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/23/vermont-gov-le-hacked-by-phsy/
  20. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Butler-Schein-Animal-Health-Customers-Exposed-After-Data-Breach-242152.shtml
  21. http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/12/22/hackers-steal-data-of-millions-of-chinese-net-users/
  22. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=22393
  23. http://www.trionworlds.com/en/games/account-notification
  24. http://www.barracudalabs.com/wordpress/index.php/2011/12/22/authoritarian-regime-uses-human-rights-group-to-spy-on-activists/
  25. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/23/couple-more-government-attacks-by-d157ur83d-crew/
  26. http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/335/community_advice/1326/debt_advice/2
  27. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/23/dump-of-accounts-from-campus100/
  28. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/23/4-more-government-sites-hacked/
  29. http://thehackernews.com/2011/12/siemens-multiple-domains-hacked-by.html
  30. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/24/new-york-city-public-advocate-hacked-and-database-dumped-by-anonymous/
  31. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/26/zuliano-institute-for-technological-research-hacked/
  32. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_HACKER_CHRISTMAS
  33. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2011/12/25/326940/20000-Taishin.htm
  34. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/25/couple-more-gov-sites-hacked-and-admin-logins-leaked/
  35. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/25/anonymous-take-down-copseek-com/
  36. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/26/indian-stock-exchange-site-hacked-2nd-time-in-24-hours-by-destructivesec/
  37. http://thehackernews.com/2011/12/french-mp-valerie-boyers-website-hacked.html
  38. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/27/karma-films-hacked-and-accounts-leaked/
  39. http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/690011/More-users-data-hacked.aspx
  40. http://www.pcworld.com/article/247072/anonymous_hacks_specialforcescom_posts_passwords_and_credit_card_data.html
  41. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/28/2700-accounts-leaked-from-promo-web/
  42. http://www.care2.com/care2blog/to-all-care2-members-security-breach.html
  43. http://cryptome.org/0005/stratfor-hack.htm
  44. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/29/cia-gov-and-nasa-gov-vulnerable-to-xss-hacked-by-d35m0nd142/
  45. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/30/opfreepalestine-first-attack-4-colombian-government-websites/
  46. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/5304-2-967-names-addresses-and-full-credit-card-numbers-with-what-may-be-expiration-dates-and-cvv-s-from-german-austrian-and-swiss-customers-posted-on-web
  47. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/30/2x-commercial-israel-based-websites-hacked-and-data-leaked/
  48. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/12/30/oplatinoamerica-in-effect-3-government-sites-hacked-and-defaced/

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