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/