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Friday, May 10, 2013

Cyber Hack Victims List- Week of April 25- May 1, 2013

Hack news The Week in review-  
May 1, 2013- The U.S. Department of Labor's Web site was hacked on Tuesday. Malicious code was placed on the site in the process.
Source: http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Labor-Department-Web-Site-Hacked/story.xhtml?story_id=00100018PE5O
May 1, 2013- DEEOIC’s Site Exposure Matrix was hacked Source: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/61675
May 1, 2013- Data from HBGary hack showed hackers pillaged QinetiQ since at least 2007Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/defense-contractor-pwned-for-years-by-chinese-hackers/
May 1, 2013- U.S. intelligence agencies traced a recent cyber intrusion into a sensitive infrastructure database to the Chinese government or military cyber warriors, according to U.S. officials.Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/1/sensitive-army-database-us-dams-compromised-chines/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
May 1, 2013- The hacking group responsible for one of the first major modchips for the original Wii claims to have successfully reverse-engineered the pieces necessary to run copies of Wii U games from external USB hard drives.Source: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/we-rooted-wii-u-encryption-and-file-system-says-hacker-group/

April 30, 2013- The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claimed responsibility for the weekend Twitter attack on the Guardian, having previously targeted the BBC, France 24 TV, and National Public Radio in the United StatesSource: http://www.acus.org/natosource/pro-assad-syrian-hackers-launching-cyber-attacks-western-media
April 30, 2013- A hacker with twitter handle @WilyXem has discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in the Thailand navy website.   He managed to exploit the vulnerability and compromised the target database.Source: http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/04/royal-thai-navy-website-hacked-with-sql.html
April 30, 2013- A group of hackers going with the handle of Dragon Force Malaysia has hacked and defaced the official website of Canon Electronics (www.canon-ebm.com.hk) Hong Kong, which deals specially with Canon Electronic Business Machine products.Source: http://hackread.com/official-website-of-canon-electronics-hong-kong-hacked-by-dragon-force-malaysia/
April 27, 2013- The online deals service LivingSocial says its website was hacked, and the personal data of more than 50 million customers may have been affected.Source:  http://www.kwtx.com/news/business/headlines/LivingSocial-Says-It-Was-Hacked-205004541.html
April 27, 2013- The Official LG Mexico website (http://www.lg.com.mx) has been breached and left with an additional page.Source: http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/27/official-lg-mexico-hacked-left-defaced/
April 25, 2013- The Twitter account of Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, which he uses to regularly engage his more than 11,000 followers, was hacked late Wednesday.Source: http://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Boughton-Twitter-account-was-hacked-4464991.php

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