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The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the number of records is still unknown are also listed. In addition, the various methods used in the breaches are listed, with hacking being the most common.
In January 2017, Riot Games successfully sued the LeagueSharp service, which offered a subscription-based hacking service for Riot's League of Legends, with a $10 million award to be paid to Riot. [44] [45] Blizzard Entertainment sued Bossland GMBH for distributing software hacks for several of its games, and was awarded $8.5 million in damages.
Redirects for a hacking website, Fkn0wned, appeared on the Steam users' forums, offering "hacking tutorials and tools, porn, free giveaways and much more." [ 79 ] December 14: Five members of the Norwegian hacker group, Noria, were arrested, allegedly suspected for hacking into the email account of the militant extremist Anders Behring Breivik ...
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 FBI has reportedly launched an investigation after a hacking group claimed responsibility for shutting down the city of Cleveland's website Monday. You've probably heard of the group Anonymous ...
Deals on vehicles and jewelry through a U.S. government auction website were a steal in more ways than one: An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty to hacking a website to buy the items for $1 each ...
Hacking was unsuccessful and a two-day DDoS attack failed to slow the website. [59] October: Operation DarkNet — Anonymous DDoSed 40 child porn sites, published the usernames of over 1500 people frequenting one of those websites, and invited the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Interpol to follow up. [60]
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