| 1 | 05/08/2016 | ? | Android Users | Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab reveals the details of a mobile trojan distributed via the AdSense Network. | Malware (Mobile) | Single Individuals | CC | >1 |
| 2 | 16/08/2016 | ? | Leoni AG | Leoni AG, Europe's biggest manufacturer of wires and electrical cables and the fourth-largest vendor in the world, announces it lost €40 million ($44.6 million) following an online scam that tricked one of its financial officers into transferring funds to the wrong bank account. | Account Hijacking | Industry: Manufacturing | CC | DE |
| 3 | 16/08/2016 | ? | Local Council of Brisbane | The local council of the Australian city of Brisbane loses A$450,000 (£248,000, US$334,000, EUR 293,000) from email-whaling scammers who trick staff into wiring money into their bank accounts. | Account Hijacking | Government | CC | AU |
| 4 | 16/08/2016 | AnonOpsBR | OBS (Olympic Broadcasting Services) | In name of #OpOlympicHacking, Brazilian hacktivist group AnonOpsBR leaks a supposed data dump of OBS (Olympic Broadcasting Services). | SQLi | Org: Broadcasting | H | INT |
| 5 | 16/08/2016 | ? | socialblade.com | Socialblade.com is hacked and 273,086 users are leaked. | Unknown | Social network | CC | CA |
| 6 | 17/08/2016 | ? | Industrial and Engineering Companies | Kaspersky reveals the details of Operation Ghoul, a campaign targeting several industrial and engineering companies primarily in the United Arab Emirates. | Targeted Attack | >1 | CC | >1 |
| 7 | 17/08/2016 | ? | Center for Neurosurgical and Spinal Disorders | The Center for Neurosurgical and Spinal Disorders announces a breach occurred in July. A hacker gained remote access to the office manager's computer and obtained screenshots of 1000+ patients' information. | Unknown | Healthcare | CC | US |
| 8 | 18/08/2016 | ? | Eddie Bauer | Eddie Bauer announces that unknown intruders broke into its network and planted malware for capturing payment card data from its POS network. Data belonging to customers who used payment cards at all 370 Eddie Bauer locations in the US, Canada was compromised. | PoS Malware | Industry: Retail | CC | US |
| 9 | 18/08/2016 | ? | Donald Trump staff member | Reuters reveals that hackers targeted the computer systems of presidential candidate Donald Trump and Republican Party organizations. | Targeted Attack | Cyber Espionage | CE | US |
| 10 | 18/08/2016 | ? | DLH.net | LeakedSource reveals that more that nine million keys used to redeem and activate games on the Steam platform were stolen by a hacker who breached DLH.net last month. | vBulletin Vulnerability | Online Services | CC | DE |
| 11 | 18/08/2016 | Suspected Russian Hackers? | The Clinton Foundation | The Clinton Foundation is said to hire the security firm FireEye to examine its data systems after seeing indications they might have been hacked | Targeted Attack | Org: Non-Profit | CE | US |
| 12 | 18/08/2016 | ? | Leet.cc | Leet.cc, a service for creating and running Minecraft Pocket Edition servers, is hacked and 6 million accounts are dumped in the dark web. | Unknown | Online Services | CC | US |
| 13 | 18/08/2016 | Master of Pain | International Weightlifting Federation (iwf.net) | Iranian hackers deface the website of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), following a controversial decision that disqualified Iranian weightlifter Behdad Salimikordasiabi. | Defacement | Org: Sport | CC | INT |
| 14 | 18/08/2016 | Hacktivists from itsgoingdown.org | Road Signs | Hacktivists from itsgoingdown.org hack a road sign to display messages against the police. | Unknown | Road Sign | H | US |
| 15 | 20/08/2016 | Suspected Chinese Hackers? | National Defense University (NDU) | The National Defense University (NDU) in Taiwan confirms that its computer system had been hacked in July but also confirms that no classified information had been stolen. | Targeted Attack | Education | CE | TW |
| 16 | 21/08/2016 | prom | Cincinnati Zoo Botanical Garden director Thane Maynard Twitter Account | The Twitter account of the Cincinnati Zoo Botanical Garden director, Thane Maynard, is hacked by an attacker called @prom. In his tweets the attacker refers repeatedly to Harambe, the endangered gorilla killed this summer to protect a child that climbed into the primate's enclosure. | Account Hijacking | Single Individual | H | US |
| 17 | 20/08/2016 | OurMine | Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales Twitter Account (@jimmy_wales) | Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' Twitter account is hacked by the infamous collective OurMine and posts bogus news of his death. | Account Hijacking | Single Individual | CC | US |
| 18 | 22/08/2016 | ? | Unreal Engine Forum Unreal Tournament Forum | Epic Games confirms that the Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forums as well as some of its legacy forums were compromised in a massive breach affecting over 800,000 users. The attack was allegedly carried out on 11 August. | SQLi | Industry: Video Games | CC | US |
| 19 | 22/08/2016 | ? | Turkish investigative journalist Barış Pehlivan | Turkish investigative journalist Barış Pehlivan spent 19 months in jail, accused of terrorism based on documents found on his work computer. An investigation reveals that those files were put there by someone who removed the hard drive from the case, copied the documents, and then reinstalled the hard drive. The attackers also attempted to control the journalist’s machine remotely, trying to infect it using malicious email attachments and thumb drives. Among the viruses detected in his computer was an extremely rare trojan called Ahtapot. | Targeted Attack | Single Individual | CC | TR |
| 20 | 22/08/2016 | ? | SCAN Health Plan | SCAN Health Plan notifies users that remote attackers were able to gain access to the contact sheets system and accessed the personal information of past and current members and some non-plan members of SCAN Health Plan, SCAN Health Plan Arizona, and VillageHealth plans. | Unknown | Healthcare | CC | US |
| 21 | 23/08/2016 | ? | DCNS | India investigates a massive data leak from French shipbuilder DCNS that affected a major submarine contract for its navy, defence officials say. The company admits the leak is the result of a hack. | Unknown | Industry: Defence | CE | FR |
| 22 | 23/08/2016 | ? | Government Savings Bank (GSB) | The central bank of Thailand (BoT) issues a warning to commercial banks in the region about security vulnerabilities in roughly 10,000 NCR ATMs that were exploited by an Eastern European gang of cybercriminals to steal 12 million baht (£260,000, $350,000). | Undisclosed Vulnerability | Finance | CC | TH |
| 23 | 23/08/2016 | ? | Blizzard's Battle.net servers | Blizzard's Battle.net servers are hit with yet another DDoS attack | DDoS | Industry: Video Games | CC | US |
| 24 | 23/08/2016 | ? | gragaming.com | The gtagaming.com forum is hacked and the details of 200,000 users are conseuquently compromised. | vBulletin Vulnerability | Online Forum | CC | US |
| 25 | 23/08/2016 | SonnySpooks | mylloyd.com | SonnySpooks hacks mylloyd.com and dumps 30,638 usernames ans passwords | Unknown | Industry: Engineering | CC | IN |
| 26 | 24/08/2016 | Two Unknown Hackers | Three Mail.ru Forums: cfire.mail.ru, parapa.mail.ru, tanks.mail.ru | Three Mail.ru forums are hacked resulting in over 25 million user accounts being compromised. Hackers breached three separate forums: cfire.mail.ru (Cross Fire game), parapa.mail.ru (ParaPa Dance City game) and tanks.mail.ru (Ground War: Tank game) and stole usernames, email addresses, passwords and more. THe hack happened earlier in August. | SQLi | Industry: Internet | CC | RU |
| 27 | 24/08/2016 | Russian State Sponsored Hackers | The New York Times | The CNN reveals that hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches over the past few months targeting reporters at The New York Times and other US news organizations. | Targeted Attack | News | CE | US |
| 28 | 24/08/2016 | ? | Leslie Jones Website | An unknown hacker breaks into the personal website of Leslie Jones (Ghostbusters reboot's co-star) and posts all of her identification, including driver's license, passport, and personal photos | Unknown | Single Individual | CC | US |
| 29 | 24/08/2016 | ? | Cincinnati Zoo Botanical Garden director Thane Maynard Twitter Account | The Twitter account of the Cincinnati Zoo Botanical Garden director, Thane Maynard, is hacked for the second time in few days by an unknown attacker. | Account Hijacking | Single Individual | CC | US |
| 30 | 24/08/2016 | ? | Orleans Medical Clinic Patient | Orleans Medical Clinic reveals to have been recently the victim of a hacking incident that resulted in inappropriate access to certain information about the Clinic’s 6,890 patients. | Unknown | Healthcare | CC | US |
| 31 | 24/08/2016 | ? | Funcom | Funcom, makers of The Secret World, The Longest Journey, Age of Conan and Anarchy Online, announced earlier this morning that their forums have been compromised and user data exposed. | Unknown | Industry: Video Games | CC | NO |
| 32 | 24/08/2016 | Mr. High | Fish and wildlife agencies of Washington, Kentucky, Oregon and Idaho | A hacker called Mr. High claims to have hacked the fish and wildlife agencies of Washington, Kentucky, Oregon and Idaho. Near 7,000,000 records are leaked. | Unknown | Government | CC | US |
| 33 | 26/08/2016 | ? | Dropbox | Dropbox forces a number of users to change their passwords after discovering a set of account details linked to an old data breach. The breach dates back to 2012 and affects potentially 60 million users. | Unknown | Industry: Online Services | CC | US |
| 34 | 26/08/2016 | ? | Opera Web Browser Sync System | Opera confirms that an unknown hacker managed to gain access to its Opera sync system, potentially compromising the data of about 1.7 million active users. In response to the breach, the company has issued a forced password reset for all Sync users. | Unknown | Industry: Software | CC | NO |
| 35 | 26/08/2016 | Team Error 404 | Tom Hiddleston's Instagram Account | Tom Hiddleston's brand new Instagram account is hacked just weeks after he joined and starts to post some odd posts. | Account Hijacking | Single Individual | CC | UK |
| 36 | 26/08/2016 | The Sri Lanka Youth | Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena Website (president.gov.lk) | A seventeen-year-old schoolboy, under the pseudonym "The Sri Lanka Youth" defaces the website of Sri Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena (president.gov.lk) because of a scheduling conflict with the exams' dates. The Author is arrested few days after. | Defacement | Government | CC | LK |
| 37 | 26/08/2016 | ? | Two unnamed petrochemical complexes in Iran | Bloomberg reveals that Iran has detected and removed malicious software from two of its petrochemical complexes. The malware was "inactive" and seems not to be related to recent petrochemical fires. | Targeted Attack | Industry: Oil | CW | IR |
| 38 | 26/08/2016 | ? | Millennium Hotels And Resorts (MHR) | Millennium Hotels And Resorts (MHR) announce investigations into a suspected data breach at its properties following notifications received from the US Secret Service. | PoS Malware | Industry: Hotel and Hospitality | CC | US |
| 39 | 26/08/2016 | ? | Noble House Hotels and Resorts (NHHR) | Noble House Hotels and Resorts also announces an investigation following a data breach at its PoS System. | PoS Malware | Industry: Hotel and Hospitality | CC | US |
| 40 | 26/08/2016 | ? | Municipal District of the Opportunity No. 17 (Northern Alberta) | The Municipal District of the Opportunity No. 17 announces that all its files were accessed, including personal and financial information. | Unknown | Government | CC | CA |
| 41 | 27/08/2016 | Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) | Bank of Israel and the Prime Minister's Office | Hackers from the collective Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) take down the websites of the Bank of Israel (bankisrael.gov.il) and the Prime Minister's Office (pmo.gov.il). The attacks are carried on to protest against the occupation of Palestine. | DoS | Government | H | IL |
| 42 | 27/08/2016 | Anonymous | Deutsche Immobilien-Leasing Ltd (Dil.de) | In name of OpAnarchists, the Anonymous deface the official website of Deutsche Immobilien-Leasing Ltd (Dil.de). | Defacement | Finance | H | DE |
| 43 | 28/08/2016 | Shad0wS3C | Paraguay's Secretary of National Emergency (seng.gov.py) | Shad0wS3C leaks some internal data from Paraguay's Secretary of National Emergency (SNE). | SQLi | Government | H | PY |
| 44 | 28/08/2016 | Websites Hunter | Kuwait Automotive Imports Company (Kaico.net) | A hacker going by the handle of “Websites Hunter” breaches into the server of Kuwait Automotive Imports Company (Kaico.net) and steals personal details of 10,000 customers | Unknown | Industry: Automotive | CC | KW |
| 45 | 29/08/2016 | ? | Infowars (infowars.com) | Motherboard reveals that about 50,000 subscriber accounts for media company Infowars are being traded in the digital underground. The company admits the data was dumped from a breach occurred in 2012. | SQLi | Industry: Media | CC | US |
| 46 | 29/08/2016 | Cozy Bear or APT29 | Several Russia-focused think tanks in Washington | Defense One reveals that the same Kremlin-backed group that hacked the Pentagon, State Department, and DNC also targeted several Russia-focused think tanks in Washington. | Targeted Attack | Org: Think Tank | CE | US |
| 47 | 29/08/2016 | Suspected state-sponsored hackers based in China | Sensitive Australian Government and corporate computer networks | Several sensitive Australian Government and corporate computer networks, including Australia's defence research division, the Defence Science Technology Group and Austrade, the Australian trade commission, are believed to have been targeted by China-based hackers. | Targeted Attack | Government | CE | AU |
| 48 | 29/08/2016 | ? | Mr Chow | The website for popular fine Chinese cuisine “Mr Chow” restaurants has been hacked and is redirecting visitors to ransomware. | Malicious Script Injection | Industry: Restaurant | CC | US |
| 49 | 30/08/2016 | ? | SWIFT | SWIFT discloses new hacking attacks on its member banks as it pressured them to comply with security procedures instituted after February's high-profile $81 million heist at Bangladesh Bank. In a private letter to clients, SWIFT says that new cyber-theft attempts - some of them successful - have surfaced since June, when it last updated customers on a string of attacks discovered after the attack on the Bangladesh central bank | Malware | Finance | CC | >1 |
| 50 | 30/08/2016 | Suspected state-sponsored hackers based in Russia | Arizona and Illinois voter database | US intelligence officials confirm that hackers based in Russia were behind two recent attempts to breach state voter registration databases. The breaches included the theft of data from as many as 200,000 voter records in Illinois. | Targeted Attack | Government | CC | US |
| 51 | 30/08/2016 | ? | Minecraft World Map (minecraftworldmap.com) | About 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from Minecraft fan website Minecraft World Map. The dump includes email addresses, IP address data, usernames, and passwords for popular site Minecraft World Map. | Unknown | Online Services | CC | US |
| 52 | 30/08/2016 | ? | Unnamed Government Institutions in Saudi Arabia | Officials and cyber-security experts from Saudi Arabia hold urgent talks in Riyadh following cyber-attacks against several government facilities. | Unknown | Government | CE | SA |
| 53 | 30/08/2016 | OurMine | Amanda Cerny's Vine account | Hackers from the collective OurMine hijack Amanda Cerny's Vine account. | Account Hijacking | Single Individual | CC | US |
| 54 | 31/08/2016 | ? | OneLogin | Online password manager OneLogin is breached. In particular the Secure Notes facility was breached, allowing the intruder to read in cleartext notes edited between 2 June and 25 August this year. | Unspecified Bug | Industry: Software | CC | US |
| 55 | 31/08/2016 | PoodleCorp | Electronic Arts | The PoodleCorp collective claims to have taken down the EA servers shortly after the open beta for upcoming shooter Battlefield 1 went live. | DDoS | Industry: Video Games | CC | US |
| 56 | 31/08/2016 | ? | Jerry's Artarama | A letter goes out to customers of Jerry's Artarama advising that its online portal "may have been attacked" by a hacker and customer information "may have been compromised." | Unknown | Industry: E-Commerce | CC | US |
| 57 | 31/08/2016 | ? | Redis Database Users | Duo Security discovers that an unknown crook is hacking more than 18,000 Internet-exposed Redis servers, adding a rogue SSH key on infected systems, deleting user data, and leaving a ransom note behind in an attempt to fool the server owner that their data was encrypted by ransomware. | Redis Database Misconfiguration | Single Individuals | CC | >1 |
| 58 | 31/08/2016 | ? | Presnell Gage | Accounting firm Presnell Gage notifies about 100 individuals or companies that their information may have been hacked during a data breach in the past month, and fraudulent tax returns filed. | Unknown | Accounting Firm | CC | US |
| 59 | 31/08/2016 | ? | The New York State Psychiatric Institute | The New York State Psychiatric Institute notifies 21,880 research participants of a hack happened between April and May. | Unknown | Healthcare | CC | US |
