1-15 June 2016 Cyber Attacks Timeline

Last Updated on July 7, 2016

It’s time to publish the fist timeline of June. I know that the latest timelines are published a little bit late, however this month the number of registered attacks is considerably higher than the average.

Is it maybe a consequence of the trail of mega breaches that seems endless and continued in this month? Probably it is, since the list of the victims include: Badoo, VK.com (100 million records), Twitter (32 million), iMesh (51 million), several forums hosted by Verticalscope (45 million), and JTB (8 million).

Another interesting trend of this month concerns the hijacking of Twitter accounts, which made some famous victims such as Keith Richards, Mark Zuckenberg, Kylie Jenner and Drake.

And while the Anonymous continued their OpIcarus (actually it entered phase II dubbed Project Mayhem), the chronicles also report some interesting cyber espionage events, such as a new advanced malware, whose modus operandi closely remind Stuxnet (dubbed Irongate), the return of the Gaza Hacker Team crew, yet another massive operation against South Korea carried on by Pyongyang, and the hack of the Democratic National Committee allegedly carried on by Russian speaking attackers.

As usual, scroll down the timeline for the details of the events (and be patient this time, since it’s longer than usual), and if you want to have an idea of how fragile our electronic identity is inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and, in a bit, 2016 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics that are regularly published, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.

Also, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts).

Additionally, if you want, you can access the timeline in Google Sheet format: