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January 14: Anonymous declared war on the Church of Scientology and bombarded them with DDoS attacks, harassing phone calls, black faxes, and Google bombing. [7] [8]February–December: Known as Project Chanology, Anonymous organized multiple in-person pickets in front of Churches of Scientology world-wide, starting February 10 and running throughout the year, achieving coordinated pickets in ...
The hackers claimed they had obtained "a decade's worth of data" which included all customers and all domains ever hosted or registered through the company, and which included poorly encrypted passwords and other sensitive data stored in plaintext.
The greatest AOL hack program ever written, Lucifer-X by NailZ, is released. In a matter of days AOL is being used for free by hundreds of thousands of users. A 16-year-old Croatian youth penetrates computers at a U.S. Air Force base in Guam. [45] June: Eligible Receiver 97 tests the American government's readiness against cyberattacks.
On Wednesday (July 22) Twitter admitted that the hackers likely read the private messages of 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands.
Twitter’s API once held such an easily exploitable flaw that hackers managed to grab 5.4 million user details. Now, according to reports and mentions from users in hacker forums, there are ...
The company Wednesday said the hackers would have been able to see phone numbers and email addresses but not previous passwords. Twitter says hackers saw messages from 36 accounts, including ...
Collection #1 was discovered by security researcher Troy Hunt, founder of "Have I Been Pwned?," a website that allows users to search their email addresses and passwords to know if either has appeared in a known data breach. [3] The database had been briefly posted to Mega in January 2019, and links to the database posted in a popular hacker ...
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.