Here’s the second part of the April cyber attacks Timeline (Part I at this link)
The most remarkable event of this period has certainly been the breach suffered by Living Social potentially exposing 50 million customers of the e-commerce website. Other illustrious victims of the month include the mobile operator DoCoMo and the online reputation firm Reputation.com.
The wake of DDoS attacks has continued even in the second part of the month: once again several U.S. banks have fallen under the blows of the Izz ad-din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters.
Like in the first half of the month, following a consolidating trend in this 2013, the Syrian Electronic Army has continued his wave of attacks against Twitter accounts (even the FIFA has been targeted). In one case, the hijacking of the Twitter account of Associated Press, the bogus tweets related to an alleged attack against the White House, the effect has crossed the boundaries of the cyber space (the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 150 points, or about 1 percent, immediately following the tweet).
If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012 and now 2013 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
Also, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts).
1. http://www.infowars.com/hacked-photos-show-colin-powell-at-bohemian-grove/
2. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57579570-83/anonymous-again-hacks-into-north-korean-web-sites/
3. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/04/16/syrian-electronic-army-npr/
4. http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/04/anon0x03-invade-argentina-military.html
5. http://www.ithacajournal.com/article/20130416/NEWS01/304160018/NYSEG-online-hiring-site-hacked-customers-not-affected
6. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-attack-to-us-banks-have-been.html
7. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/04/16/ugg-blog-used-to-fleece-hsbc-customers.html
8. http://hackread.com/westboro-baptist-churchs-official-facebook-page-hacked-by-anonymous/
9. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-continual-disruptions-in-us-banks.html
10. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-citizens-bank-and-ameriprise.html
11. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bitcoin-Block-Explorer-Blockchain-info-Disrupted-by-DDOS-Attack-346497.shtml
12. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/former-employee-arrested-charged-with-rooting-2700-hostgator-servers/
13. https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2013/04/19/the-bearer-of-badnews-malware-google-play/
14. http://www.cyber-n.com/2013/04/kyrgyzstan-nic-breached-microsoft.html#sthash.3hLm8oH5.Bu5QJn0L.dpbs
15. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Deface-Google-Kyrgyzstan-and-Google-Bosnia-and-Herzegovina-346753.shtml
16. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Reddit-Disrupted-by-DDOS-Attack-4-19-2013-346850.shtml
17. http://news.softpedia.com/news/OpGabon-Gabon-Ministry-of-Justice-Other-Government-Sites-Attacked-by-Anonymous-346887.shtml
18. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57580604-83/hackers-send-bogus-tweets-from-60-minutes-account/
19. http://thehackernews.com/2013/04/google-oman-domain-hijacked-by-moroccan.html
20. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/10108-4-316-user-names-email-addresses-and-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
21. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Claim-to-Have-Breached-Dubai-International-Airport-347010.shtml
22. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/potent-ddos-attacks-on-mt-gox-delays-rollout-of-new-virtual-currency/
23. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/21/108377-accounts-leaked-from-newsea-sims/
24. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/10107-2-013-names-email-addresses-ip-addresses-and-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
25. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/10106-1-503-email-addresses-user-names-and-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
26. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/sources-tea-leaves-say-breach-at-teavana/
27. http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/10306227.School_website_hacked_and_redirected_to_porn_site/
28. http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/media/news/newsid=2062650/index.html?cid=rssfeed&att=
29. http://www.illsecure.com/2013/04/police-of-hong-kong-hacked-by-portugal.html
30. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Austrian-Websites-of-Mercedes-Benz-Defaced-by-Turkish-Hackers-347280.shtml
31. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/hacked-ap-twitter-feed-rocks-market-after-sending-false-news-flash/
32. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/10041-1-460-email-addresses-user-names-and-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
33. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-bb-bank-is-under-cyber-attacks.html
34. http://news.softpedia.com/news/DDOS-Attack-on-DigiD-Impacts-10-Million-Dutch-Users-348791.shtml
35. http://news.softpedia.com/news/VideoLAN-s-Downloads-Section-Hit-by-DDOS-Attack-4-24-2013-348040.shtml
36. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/schwab-website-idUSL2N0DA2LU20130424
37. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-bb-bank-is-target-of-cyber-attack.html
38. http://allthingsd.com/20130426/livingsocial-hacked-more-than-50-million-customer-names-emails-birthdates-and-encrypted-passwords-accessed/
39. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/27/japanese-mobile-operator-ntt-docomo-hacked-credit-card-information-leaked-for-stopcispa/
40. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/28/ntt-docomo-releases-notice-its-been-breached-apologizes-for-the-credentials-leaked/
41. http://hackread.com/iraqs-ministry-of-oil-website-hacked-defaced-by-iraqi-top-hacker/
42. http://hackread.com/university-of-zurich-hacked-3200-officials-accounts-leaked-by-ag3nt47/
43. http://www.zdnet.com/guardian-twitter-accounts-compromised-sea-takes-credit-7000014650/
44. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Reputation-com-Hacked-All-User-Passwords-Reset-350034.shtml
45. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Brazilian-Hackers-Deface-Several-Official-Ferrari-Websites-350124.shtml
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