16-31 July 2016 Cyber Attacks Timeline

Last Updated on August 12, 2016

Let’s close the timeline of July with the second part of the Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part I here).

There are several macro events that characterized this fortnight: we could simply start from the trail of hacks against the US Democratic Party (4 only in these two weeks). And if this is not enough, these two weeks also featured multiple cyber attacks carried on in the wake of the foiled coup in Turkey (outside the nation such as the DDoS  attacks against Wikileaks and RT.com, but also inside the nation since Wikileaks was crippled while leaking  295,000 emails allegedly hacked from AKP the Turkey ruling party, by an old acquaintance like Phineas Fisher).

And obviously the invasion of Pokemon GO is a massive phenomenon. So massive to attract the unwelcome attentions of the OurMine and PoodleCorp crews, who purportedly took down the server infrastructure in two distint attacks.

The OurMine collective was also involved in other primary Twitter accounts hijacks (Shuhei Yoshida, the president of worldwide studios at Sony, and, John Hanke, the CEO of Niantic, the studio that developed Pokemon GO), but also belonging to Sarah Silverman’s account was hacked in the same period.

And, last but not least, other massive breaches were reported, targeting Interpark, a South Korean E-Commerce Company (10.1 million users affected), and two video games: the forum of Clash of Kings (1.6 million) and Warframe (775,000 users affected).

Even hactivists were quite active (Donald Trump is always a compelling target, in any case scroll down the timeline for the details of the events, 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.

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