1-15 July 2016 Cyber Attacks Timeline

Last Updated on August 8, 2016

It’s time to publish the first timeline of July, covering the main cyber attacks occurred between July 1st and 15th, 2016.

I seriously believe, at this point, that 2016 will be inevitably remembered for the number of databases hacked and in several cases popping up in the Dark Web. Every month is bringing new victims, and July is no exception unfortunately (at least the first fifteen days).

The list of the noticeable victims of this month includes: ubuntuforums.org (2 Million accounts leaked), Netia (a Polish ISP that had the entire customer base leaked), Shadi.com (a dating website that suffered the leak of 2M accounts), the media company Penton (5 databases leaked for a total of 1.4 million passwords) and MTN Irancell (this latter is really massive since the leaked data amounts to 20 Million customers).

In the same time: Marissa Mayer and Jack Dorsey joined the hall of shame (both of them had their Twitter account hacked), hacktivists took a summer break as this fortnight just showed a couple of operations (against Zimbabwe and South Africa), and, despite there were several cyber espionage operations, none of them deserved a special mention.

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: