Major Global Cyber Attacks during the November, 2014

Below are the Major Cyber security incidents that happened worldwide during the first half of November 2014.

Author of Target of Attack Type of Attack Description of Attack Country Date Attack

Anonymous Philippines Database An online hacktivist going by the name Philippi November Leyte department of Breach Leyte hacked into the official nes -3 trade and website of the Philippines department of industry Trade & Industry using SQL injection, leaking the login details of 1900+ members. The attack was done in protest against the mishandling of the Yolanda Typhoon's rescue operation.

Nigeria Cyber Official website Web A group of going by the name US November Army of State of Defacement Nigeria Cyber Army defaced the official -3 Indiana website of State of Indiana Department of Department of Education. Education.

Russia U.S. Critical Targeted The US Department of Homeland Security US November infrastructure attack reveals the details of a Russian Hacking -6 campaign against U.S. Ctitical infrastructure going on since 2011. The campain was carried out using similar to Sandworm.

Pakistani Government Web The Cyber War between India and Pakistan India November Hackers websites defacement continues: Pakistani Hackers deface 22 -6 Indian Government websites in support of Kashmir.

Unknown Human Rights Targeted One of the world's leading human rights N/A November (probably Watch Without Attack groups, Human Rights Watch Without -8 Russian and Frontiers Frontiers (HRWF), reports to have been Chinese based subject to “repeated and sophisticated” ) cyber-attacks on its website. The group traced the attack back to Russia and . A Various Database A young man, known by the surname Jang, Worldw November named Jang websites breach in the South Korean capital City seoul , ide -8 Worldwide broke the security settings of various websites around the world, amassing a collection of 280,000 private records, before being arrested

Unknown US Postal Database All United States Postal Service (USPS) US November Service breach employees' personal data including names, -10 employees addresses, social security numbers were publicly leaked. 800,000 employees might have been potentially exposed. The hack is believed to have been originated from China.

Unknown Corporate Targeted reveals details of the More November Executives Attack “DarkHotel” espionage campaign. than -10 The campaign aims to steal sensitive data one from selected corporate executives country travelling abroad. “DarkHotel” hits its targets while they are staying in Luxury hotesl. You can read more about it here.

Pro UN website Web The pro-Palestinian hacktivist group, UN November Palestinian Defacement AnonGhost, defaces a subdomain of the UN - 12 hacktivists website in protest against the Israeli invasion of Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. The attack is conducted under the banner #OpSaveAlAqsa.

Unknown HSBC Database HSBC admits that its Turkish branch Turkey November Breach suffered a breach and the personal data of -13 2.7 million customers ' credit cards have been compromised.

Unknown US Government Network The US State Department shuts down its US November Breach unclassified email system as it evaluates -16 potential damage caused by a possible hacker attack.

The The Ku Klax Account Two Twitter accounts belonging to US November Anonymous Klan Hijacking American racial segregation group Ku Klux -17 organisation Klan have been seized by Anonymous as part of it's new campaign #OpKKK

Unknown City of Detroit Targeted Unknown hackers encrypt the entire City of US November attack Detroit's Database and demand a ransom of -18 2000 bitcoins ($803,500). Apparently the ransom is not paid as the database is no longer used.

US President of Targeted After suffering a cyber attack on his own Ecuador November Government Ecuador Attack computer, the President of Ecuador accuses -20 the US of “systematic”, high-tech” cyber-attacks on his private internet accounts and computers.

Unknown Many targets Targeted Symantec discloses the details of , an N/A November (probably Attack advanced piece of malware used in -23 Western systematic spying campaigns against a intelligence ) range of international targets since 2008. The origin comes from Western intelligence.

Guardians of VSony Pictures Network A group of hackers calling themselves US November Peace Hacker Entertainment breach “Guardians of Peace”hack the IT network -24 group of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and dumps a zip file of217MB on a public site which contains data allegedly stolen from Sony Picture's system.

The Cleveland City DDoS attack The Anonymous take down the Cleveland US November Anonymous website City website with a DDoS attack, in -24 retaliation for police killing a 12 year old boy carrying a toy gun.

The The Ku Klux Targeted After the Twitter account takeover, the US November Anonymous Klan Attack Anonymous target the Klu Klux Klan, -28 organisation publishing credit card numbers and other personal information allegedly belonging to a leading member.

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