List of cyber-attacks

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. A cyber-attack 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.

This article contains a list of cyber-attacks.

Indiscriminate attacks

These attacks are wide-ranging, global and do not seem to discriminate among governments and companies

  • Operation Shady RAT
  • Stuxnet
  • World of Hell
  • Red October, discovered in 2012, was reportedly operating worldwide for up to five years prior to discovery, transmitting information ranging from diplomatic secrets to personal information, including from mobile devices.[1]

Destructive attacks

These attacks relate to inflicting damage on specific organizations

Cyberwarfare

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These are politically motivated destructive attacks aimed at sabotage and espionage

Government espionage

These attacks relate to stealing information from/about government organizations

Corporate espionage

These attacks relate to stealing data from corporations related to proprietary methods or emerging products/services

Stolen e-mail addresses and login credentials

These attacks relate to stealing login information for specific web resources

  • 2011 PlayStation Network outage, 2011 attack resulting in stolen credentials and incidentally causing network disruption
  • Gawker - in 2010, a band of anonymous hackers has rooted the servers of the site and leaked half a gigabyte's worth of its private data.[8]
  • IEEE - in September 2012, it exposed user names, plaintext passwords, and website activity for almost 100,000 of its members.[9]
  • LivingSocial - in 2014 the company suffered a security breach that has exposed names, e-mail addresses and password data for up to 50 million of its users.[10]
  • RockYou - in 2009, the company experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts.
  • Yahoo! - in 2012, hackers posted login credentials for more than 453,000 user accounts.[11] Again in January 2013[12] and in January 2014[13]

Stolen credit card and financial data

  • 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach, allegedly conducted by a group of Russian hackers
  • MasterCard - in 2005, the company announced that up to 40 million cardholders may have had account information stolen due to one of its payment processors being hacked.[14][15][16][17]
  • VISA and MasterCard - in 2012, they warned card-issuing banks that a third-party payments processor suffered a security breach, affecting up to 10 million credit cards.[18][19]
  • Subway - in 2012, two Romanian men admitted to participating in an international conspiracy that hacked into credit-card payment terminals at more than 150 Subway restaurant franchises and stole data for more than 146,000 accounts.[20]
  • StarDust - in 2013, the botnet compromised 20,000 cards in active campaign hitting US merchants.[21]
  • Target - in 2013, approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts were impacted in a credit card breach.[22][23][24] According to another estimate, it compromised as many as 110 million Target customers.[25]
  • Goodwill Industries - in September 2014, the company suffered from a credit card data breach that affected the charitable retailer’s stores in at least 21 states. Another two retailers were affected.[26][27]
  • Home Depot - in September 2014, the cybercriminals that compromised Home Depot's network and installed malware on the home-supply company's point-of-sale systems likely stole information on 56 million payment cards.[28]

Stolen medical-related data

  • By May, three healthcare payer organizations had been attacked in the United States in 2014 and 2015: Anthem, Premera Blue Cross and CareFirst. The three attacks together netted information on more than 91 million people.[29]

Hacktivism

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References

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  8. Gawker rooted by anonymous hackers, December 13, 2010, Dan Goodin, The Register, retrieved at 2014-11-08
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  27. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/07/banks-card-breach-at-goodwill-industries/
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