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This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual
May: The largest defacement in Web History as of that time is performed by the Turkish hacker iSKORPiTX who successfully hacked 21,549 websites in one shot. [60] July: Robert Moore and Edwin Pena were the first people to be charged by U.S. authorities for VoIP hacking. Robert Moore served 2 years in federal prison and was given $152,000 ...
Lizard Squad was a black hat hacking group, mainly known for their claims of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks [1] primarily to disrupt gaming-related services.. On September 3, 2014, Lizard Squad seemingly announced that it had disbanded [2] only to return later on, claiming responsibility for a variety of attacks on prominent websites.
The initial wave of this hacking incident took place when around 6 million users’ information was sold on a hacking message board. This led to a massive data scrape of Twitter’s users.
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
Cozy Bear and fellow Russian hacking group Fancy Bear (likely GRU) were identified as perpetuating the Democratic National Committee intrusion. [2] While the two groups were both present in the DNC's servers at the same time, they appeared to operate independently. [ 29 ]
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[40] New World Hackers has claimed responsibility in the past for similar attacks targeting sites like BBC and ESPN.com. [41] On October 26, FlashPoint stated that the attack was most likely done by script kiddies. [42] A November 17, 2016, a Forbes article reported that the attack was likely carried out by "an angry gamer". [43]