ID |
Date |
Author |
Target |
Description |
Attack |
Target Class |
Attack Class |
Country |
1 |
01/07/2016 |
? |
MTN Irancell |
Law enforcers in Iran arrest a 19-year-old IT graduate for leaking personal data belonging to 20M ‘MTN Irancell’ customers in an elaborate scheme orchestrated with the help of the smartphone application Telegram. The database was allegedly stolen 3 years ago. |
Unknown |
Industry: Telco |
CC |
IR |
2 |
01/07/2016 |
? |
Three Unnamed Hospitals |
TrapX releases a new report revealing the details of three new attacks related to Medjack, an attack that relies on exploiting existing medical devices that run outdated software in order to enter the secure network of a healthcare unit. |
Targeted Attack |
Healthcare |
CC |
N/A |
3 |
01/07/2016 |
aLem! |
Official website of Arizona State, Arizona House of Representatives and Arizona State Legislature |
A hacked called aLem! defaces the websites of Arizona State, Arizona House of Representatives and Arizona State Legislature. |
Defacement |
Government |
CC |
US |
4 |
01/07/2016 |
hackermanfrisch |
Sovereign Order of Malta |
A hacker dubbed hackermanfrisch claims to have hacked the website of the Sovereign Order of Malta and leaks 1,786 login credentials in plaintext. |
Unknown |
Org: Religion |
CC |
N/A |
5 |
01/07/2016 |
? |
DID Electrical (DID.ie) |
DID Electrical reveals that more than 300 people have had card details stolen after online security breach. The attack happened between June 15 and June 26. |
Unknown |
Industry: Retail |
CC |
IE |
6 |
01/07/2016 |
TheDarkOverlord |
Unknown Healthcare Database |
TheDarkOverlord puts up for sale a new healthcare database containing the data of about 24,000 patients. |
Unknown |
Healthcare |
CC |
US |
7 |
03/07/2016 |
? |
North Carolina State University |
An external attacker uses a phishing scam to break into a North Carolina State University email account containing personally identifiable information of 38,000 individuals. |
Account Hijacking |
Education |
CC |
US |
8 |
04/07/2016 |
? |
Trillian |
Cerulean Studios reveal to have discovered a breach affecting their Blog and Forums. The breach affects potentially 3M records and could possibly date back to December 2015. |
vBulletin Vulnerability |
Industry: Software |
CC |
US |
9 |
04/07/2016 |
? |
Several Danish Companies |
Researchers at Heimdal Security reveal the details of a spear phishing campaign targeting specifically Danish Business Organizations. |
Targeted Attack |
>1 |
CE |
DK |
10 |
04/07/2016 |
PoodleCorp |
LeafyIsHere YouTube Channel |
PoodleCorp hacks LeafyIsHere, a popular YouTube Channel with >3M subscribers and defaces the main page. |
Account Hijacking |
YouTube Channels |
CC |
US |
11 |
05/07/2016 |
? |
topbutton.com |
The database of topbutton.com is leaked in the Dark Net. |
Unknown |
Social Network |
CC |
US |
12 |
06/07/2016 |
Guccifer 2.0 |
US Democratic Party |
Guccifer 2.0 leaks more documents from the computer networks of the US Democratic Party and exposes plans to spend more than $800,000 (£614,660) on a “counter-convention” in an attempt to hijack the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC). |
Unknown |
Org: Political Party |
CE |
US |
13 |
06/07/2016 |
OurMine |
Wikileaks |
Because of a spat with the Anonymous, OurMine take down the Wikileaks website. |
DDoS |
Org: Hacktivism |
CC |
N/A |
14 |
06/07/2016 |
? |
Twitter Account for NASA’s Kepler (@NASAKepler) |
The official Twitter account for NASA’s Kepler (@NASAKepler) is hacked and posts an offending image and a dodgy link. |
Account Hijacking |
Government |
CC |
US |
15 |
06/07/2016 |
Anonymous |
Several Zimbabwe Websites |
In name of #ZimShutDown2016 or #ShutDownZimbabwe, the Anonymous take down the websites of the country’s official portal (zim.gov.zw), ZANUPF – Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) and Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (zbc.co.zw). |
DDoS |
Government |
H |
ZW |
16 |
07/07/2016 |
Pravyy Sector |
Netia |
A Ukrainian hacker going by the handle of Pravy Sektor (right sector) breaches the servers of Poland’s telecom company Netia SA and leak a 14GB file containin customers’ details. |
SQLi |
Industry: Telco |
CC |
PL |
17 |
07/07/2016 |
@0x2Taylor |
Baton Rouge Police (brgov.com) |
In retaliation for the Alton Sterling killing, a hacker called @0x2Taylor hacks the Baton Rouge city government’s servers and leaks 50,000 Baton Rouge Police records. |
Account Hijacking |
Government |
H |
US |
18 |
07/07/2016 |
APT “Patchwork” |
>1 |
Cymmetria Research releases a new report about a new APT dubbed “Patchwork” tied to Southeast Asia and the South China Sea, targeting governments and entities around the world including the U.S. |
Targeted Attack |
Government |
CE |
>1 |
19 |
07/07/2016 |
APT “Pacifier” |
Several Countries |
BitDefender reveals the details of “Pacifier”, a malicious actor targeting Romanian institutions and other foreign targets in countries such as Iran, India, the Philippines, Russia, Lithuania, Thailand, Vietnam, and Hungary. |
Targeted Attack |
>1 |
CE |
>1 |
20 |
08/07/2016 |
? |
Datadog |
Datadog, the software-as-a-service monitoring and analytics platform, is hit by hackers and strongly suggests that customers initiate password resets. |
Unknown |
Industry: System Monitoring |
CC |
US |
21 |
08/07/2016 |
uid0 |
5 databases belonging to the media company Penton (Web Hosting Talk, Mac Forums, HotScripts.com, dBforums, and A Best Web) |
Someone who goes by the name “uid0” allegedly steals more than 1.4 million passwords, email addresses, and other data from the databases of popular forums including Web Hosting Talk, and Mac Forums and HotScripts, and offers to sell the databases on the dark web underground market The Real Deal for a combined 7.2 bitcoin (approximately $4,752 at the current conversion rate) |
Account Hijacking |
Industry: IT Services and Marketing |
CC |
US |
22 |
08/07/2016 |
OurMine |
Twitter accounts associated with Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer and the site’s co-founder Jack Dorsey |
OurMine hacks the Twitter accounts associated with Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer and the site’s co-founder Jack Dorsey. |
Account Hijacking |
Single Individuals |
CC |
US |
23 |
08/07/2016 |
JokerStash |
Omni Hotels, Noodles & Company |
Omni Hotels & Resorts announces that point-of-sale systems at “some Omni properties” were infected with malware designed to collect payment card data, including cardholder names, credit or debit card numbers, security codes and expiration dates. 49 of Omni’s 60 North American hotels were affected, and over 50,000 payment card were leaked online. |
PoS Malware |
Industry: Hotel and Hospitality |
CC |
US |
24 |
08/07/2016 |
0x2Taylor |
Amazon |
0x2Taylor claims to have breached the servers of Amazon, and leaks the login credentials of 80,000 Kindle users. The company denies the breach and declares the data was not stolen from its servers and is not legitimate. |
Unknown |
Industry: E-Commerce |
CC |
US |
25 |
08/07/2016 |
? |
oshoworld.com |
An anonymous hacker dumps on the Dark Web the database of topcon.com containing 85K records. |
Unknown |
Industry: E-Commerce |
CC |
CA |
26 |
09/07/2016 |
? |
topcon.com |
An anonymous hacker dumps on the Dark Web the database of topcon.com containing 21K records. |
SQLi |
Industry: Optical Components |
CC |
JP |
27 |
09/07/2016 |
? |
ingersollrandproducts.com |
An anonymous hacker hacks ingersollrandproducts.com and leaks 14K usernames and hashed passwords. |
SQLi |
Industry: Mechanical Components. |
CC |
US |
28 |
10/07/2016 |
? |
Shadi.com |
Another Muslim Dating Website hacked. This time it’s the turn of shadi.com, which suffers 2M accounts dumped online, including clear text passwords. |
Unknown |
Dating |
CC |
US |
29 |
11/07/2016 |
Anonymous |
Armscor (armscor.co.za) |
In name of OpAfrica, hackers affiliated to the Anonymous collective hacks armscor, a Pretoria based arms procurement agency, and leak 63 MB data in HTML files that include invoices numbers, order numbers, invoice amount and other data from Airbus, Thales group, Rolls Royce, EADS, Denel etc. Armscor denies that classified data was stolen though. |
SQLi |
Industry: Arms Procurement |
H |
ZA |
30 |
11/07/2016 |
Dropping Elephant |
Asian Region |
Kaspersky Lab researchers reveals the details of a threat actor undertaking aggressive cyber espionage activity in the Asian region, targeting multiple diplomatic and government entities with a particular focus on China and its international affairs. The group is dubbed Dropping Elephant or Chinastrats. |
Targeted Attack |
Government |
CE |
>1 |
31 |
12/07/2016 |
OurMine |
HSBC |
Hacker group OurMine, claims that it temporarily took down the servers of HSBC in the US and the UK. |
DDoS |
Finance |
CC |
UK |
32 |
12/07/2016 |
? |
UK Network Rail |
Security firm DarkTrace reveals that four major cyberattacks have been reported on UK railway computer networks over the past year, |
Unknown |
Utility: Network Railway |
CC |
UK |
33 |
12/07/2016 |
? |
Top Eight Banks in Taiwan including Bank of Taiwan, Chang Hwa Bank, First Bank. |
The top eight banks in Taiwan have been forced to shut down activity on hundreds of ATMs after a coordinated group of thieves used malware to steal NT$70 million ($2.17m, £1.64m, €1.9m) in cash. |
Malware |
Finance |
CC |
TW |
34 |
12/07/2016 |
? |
68 Philippines Government Websites |
In the same day the permanent court at The Hague rules for Philippines in the dispute against China for the islands in the West Philippine Sea, 69 Philippines Government Websites are taken down by a DDoS attack. |
DDoS |
Government |
CW |
CN |
35 |
12/07/2016 |
? |
Anhui Women and Children Health Hospital |
Unknown hackers steal nearly 6,000 private videos of newborn babies and upload them to a video-sharing website. |
Unknown |
Healthcare |
CC |
CN |
36 |
12/07/2016 |
TheDarkOverlord |
Unnamed Healthcare Software Company |
The Dark Overlord offers the source code, software signing keys, and customer license database for a firm that develops and markets healthcare software. |
Unknown |
Industry: Software |
CC |
US |
37 |
12/07/2016 |
SonnySpooks |
threedollarclick.com fourdollarclick.com sevendollarclick.com |
In a rage of hacking SonnySpooks hacks threedollarclick.com, fourdollarclick.com and sevendollarclick.com and dumps more than 200K records with usernames and hashed passwords. |
Unknown |
Online Services |
CC |
PA |
38 |
12/07/2016 |
SonnySpooks |
acparadise.com |
SonnySpooks leaks the entire database of acparadise.com made of 55K records including username and passwords. |
Unknown |
Social Network |
CC |
US |
39 |
12/07/2016 |
SonnySpooks |
pingpong.su |
SonnySpooks leaks the entire database of pingpong.su made of 57K records including username and passwords. |
Unknown |
Industry: E-Commerce |
CC |
RU |
40 |
12/07/2016 |
SonnySpooks |
wii-records.com |
SonnySpooks leaks the entire database of wii-records.com made of 18K records including username and passwords. |
Unknown |
Online Forum |
CC |
CA |
41 |
13/07/2016 |
China? |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
A report published by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology found that hackers purported to be from China had compromised computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation repeatedly between 2010 and 2013. Unfortunately the Incident was never reported. |
Targeted Attack |
Government |
CE |
US |
42 |
14/07/2016 |
? |
ubuntuforums.org |
Popular Ubuntu Forum ubuntuforums.org is hacked and 2 million user details that includes usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses are stolen. |
SQLi |
Org: Software |
CC |
ZA |
43 |
14/07/2016 |
Pravyy Sector |
Poland’s Defence Ministry |
This time Pravyy Sector threaten to release data stolen from Poland’s Defence Ministry if the government doesn’t pay $50,000. The hackers shows a proof of the data he allegedly accessed. |
Unknown |
Government |
CC |
PL |
44 |
14/07/2016 |
Guccifer 2.0 |
Democratic National Committee (DNC) |
Guccifer 2.0 leaks more documents reportedly stolen from the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), including opposition research, political donor lists and internal memos. |
Unknown |
Org: Political Party |
CC |
US |
45 |
14/07/2016 |
? |
Steemit |
Social media site Steemit temporarily shuts down after a major hack. The attackers compromise 260 account make off with $85,000 worth of cryptocurrency. |
Unknown |
Social Network |
CC |
US |
46 |
15/07/2015 |
ElSurveillance |
AfrikaDating.com |
ElSurveillance continues his #EscortsOffline campaign and leaks 12,738 user records from afrikadating.com. |
Unknown |
Escort Services |
H |
UK |
47 |
15/07/2015 |
ElSurveillance |
AdultSingleSites.com.au |
In name of the same campaign ElSurveillance leaks 67.118 user records from adultsinglesites.com.au. |
Unknown |
Escort Services |
H |
AU |
48 |
15/07/2015 |
ElSurveillance |
PinkDate.co.uk |
In name of the same campaign ElSurveillance leaks 67.118 user records from PinkDate.co.uk. |
Unknown |
Escort Services |
H |
UK |