Hacker Incidents

Over the years, I have been involved in hacker incidents while working at NASA and the US Air Force as a computer security engineer.  I was involved in detecting and analyzing the Morris worm in November 1988 while doing computer security work at NASA Ames Research Center, and ran an Air Force team that went after hackers attacking Air Force and DoD sites.  Here are some publicly known hacker incidents.  The list of non-public incidents is 10 times longer.

1961.01.02  Caltech hackers (Fiendish Fourteen) hacked the stunt cards at the Rose Bowl (U of Wash vs Minnesota)  to say CALTECH instead of WASHINGTON and show a beaver instead of a husky

1971.00.00  John Draper (Cap'n Crunch) uses whistle (blue box) to access Ma Bell

1972.05.00  John Draper arrested for phone fraud

1981.00.00  Kevin Mitnick broke into the records of LA Unified School District, Monroe HS

1981.00.00  Captain Zap (Ian Murphy) breaks into AT&T and changed the internal clocks; cracked White House switchboard.  1st person convicted of a computer crime; inspired the movie "Sneakers"

1981.05.30  Mitnick gets into Pac Bell's COSMOS phone center; takes passwords

1982.00.00  Chaos Computer Club founded

1982.00.00  Mitnick (Condor) cracks Pacific Telephone system and TRW; destroys data

1982.00.00  414 Gang raided; 6 teenagers from Milwaukee arrested for breaking into Los Alamos National Lab, the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Security Pacific National Bank.  They used terminals, modems, and long-distance telephone lines to break into the computers.

1982.11.20  MIT hacked the Harvard-Yale football game with a black ball that had MIT written on it

1983.00.00  Mitnick arrested for gaining illegal access to the ARPAnet & Pentagon

1983.06.03  414 Gang breaks into the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and does $1,500 worth of damage by deleting billing records.

1983.11.00  Fred Cohen creates the first virus at U of Southern California (Vax virus called VD); coined "computer virus"

1984.00.00  Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante) arrested for breaking into the ARPAnet 

1984.00.00  2600 hacker magazine begins regular publication by Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley)

1985.00.00  First issue of Phrack magazine

1986.00.00  Chaos Computer Club cracks German government computer that had info about Chernobyl

1986.01.00  Pakistani Brain virus released; oldest malicious virus; affected the boot sector

1986.08.00  Dr Cliff Stoll tracks hackers (Chaos Computer Club) using Lawrence Berkeley Labs computers

1986.09.16  hackers break into Stanford Unix computers

1986.00.00  Congress enacts the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act;  illegal to access unauthorized federal computers

1987.07.05  hackers got secret access codes from Sprint

1987.09.18  hacker accesses AT&T computers, stealing $1 million worth of s/w

1987.09.28  hackers from Brooklyn penetrate MILNET

1987.10.15  Jerusalem memory resident virus; 1st file-infecting virus

1987.11.15  Lehigh virus; infected the command.com

1987.11.23  Chaos Computer Club hacks NASA's SPAN network (VMS 4.4)

1987.12.25  Christmas virus; 1st WAN virus; draws a Christmas tree on the screen while looking for network users

1987.12.00  Mitnick sentenced for stealing s/w from SCO

1988.06.15  Mac/Scores virus infected Macintosh 6.0.4

1988.09.00  "Prophet" cracks BellSouth AIMSX computer network 

1988.11.02  Internet worm sent out by Robert T. Morris; overflowed fingerd buffer; 6,000 computers (Sun 3) affected.  1st Internet worm; crashed 6,000 computers

1988.11.23  hacker cracks USAF Sperry 1160 computer in San Antonio

1988.12.16  Mitnick cracks MCI DEC network, steals VMS source code and XSafe

1989.00.00  Avenger written by Dark Avenger overwrites data onto a system's hard drive

1989.00.00  WDEF Mac virus corrupts hard drive and desktop files

1989.06.21  hacker cracks USAF satellite-positioning satellite

1989.07.22  Fry Guy cracks into MacDonald's mainframe; also stole credit cards

1989.10.16  WANK (Worms Against Nuclear Killers) worm attacked SPAN (NASA DECnet) VAX/VMS systems

1989.12.15  30 viruses discovered

1990.00.00  Kevin Poulson (Dark Dante) breaks into Pac Bell to be the 102nd caller on LA radio station; wins Porche

1990.00.00  Legion of Doom (LOD) and Masters of Deception are rival hacker groups

1990.00.00  Lamprecht (Minor Threat) cracks into warez site; write ToneLoc

1990.00.00  Frank Darden, Adam Grant, Bob Riggs, all of LOD arrested for cracking into BellSouth

1990.03.07  Denver hacker cracks NASA computer at Huntsville and Greenbelt

1990.03.21  hacker cracks Cliff Stoll's computer and adds message

1990.04.00  hackers from Netherlands penetrated DoD sites

1990.10.15  hackers break into British clearing banks

1991.00.00  Michelangelo virus; goes off on March 6

1991.01.00  Lamprecht (Minor Threat) hacks into Southwestern Bell; wrote ToneLoc

1991.03.00  hacker penetrates NASA, NIH, Bureau of Land Mgt, BBN

1991.04.21  Dutch hackers from Eindhoven break into US military computers

1991.06.21  Kevin Poulsen arrested for breaking into Pacific Bell phones

1991.07.00  Justin Petersen (Agent Steal) arrested for hacking into a bank's computer and transferring funds

1991.09.00  Justin Petersen released from prison to help FBI track crackers

1991.12.31  1,000 viruses exist in the wild

1992.00.00  Dallas computer maker discovers planted network sniffer on computer fax machine

1992.00.00  hackers get root at Eindhoven U of Technology in the Netherlands

1992.00.00  Morty Rosenfeld convicted after hacking into TRW, stealing 176 credit card reports and numbers

1992.02.00  Lamprecht (Minor Threat) steals circuit boards

1992.03.06  Michelangelo virus

1992.07.00  Lamprecht is caught attempting to sell stolen microprocessors

1992.11.00  Mitnick cracks into California Dept of Motor Vehicles

1992.12.00  hacker arrested for penetrating NASA, NIH, BBN, etc

1993.00.00  Masters of Deception (MOD) phone phreakers busted via wiretaps

1993.00.00  food scientist gained access to General Mills mainframe computers

1993.08.00  Justin Petersen (Agent Steal) arrested for computer fraud; broke into financial services company

1993.10.28  Randal Schwartz uses Crack at Intel to crack passwords

1994.00.00  Mark Abene (Phiber Optik) jailed for phone tampering

1994.02.00  hacker installs network sniffer and grabbed 100,000 names and passwords

1994.02.00  Texas Racing Commission computer hacked into

1994.02.01  hacker spoofed a Dartmouth professor using email to cancel tests

1994.03.23  DataStream Cowboy (Richard Pryce, age 16) broke into Rome Lab, Griffiss AFB from UK; used sniffer

1994.06.13  Citibank hacked by Vladimir Levin; $12 million in illegal transfers

1994.07.07  Lane Davis gained unauthorized access to the Salt River Project computer network in Phoenix via a dialup modem. Installed a back door.  Altered login, password, log files.  Had access to water SCADA system on a canal

1994.07.14  French student Damien Doligez cracks 40-bit RC4 encryption

1994.07.21  hackers crack into the Pentagon, altering and erasing records

1994.08.00  Justin Petersen electronically steals $150k from Heller Financial

1994.09.00  Netcom's credit card database was on-line an accessible to the unauthorized

1994.10.00  Michael Smyth, a regional manager at Pillsbury, fired due to intercepted email

1994.10.12  computer engineer cracks Marks & Spencer security file containing PIN numbers

1994.11.01  hacker cracks FBI's conference-calling system; made $250,000 in calls

1994.12.00  US Naval Academy computers hacked; sniffer programs installed; master backup deleted; router hacked

1994.12.00  authors were targets of electronic mail bomb

1994.12.00  CrackBuster issued cancels for every message in alt.2600; flooded groups

1994.12.25  Mitnick cracks into Tsutomu Shimomura's security computers; stole s/w tools

1995.01.00  Chris Lamprecht (Minor Threat) incarcerated for hacking; banned from Internet

1995.01.27  Mitnick cracks into the Well; puts Shimomura's files there and Netcom credit card numbers

1995.02.15  Mitnick captured; broke into NORAD, PacBell, CA DMV, etc; had 20,000 credit card numbers

1995.04.00  Journalist David Pogue's AOL account deleted by hackers

1995.04.05  SATAN security tool released to the Internet

1995.05.05  Chris Lamprecht (Minor Threat) becomes 1st person banned from Internet

1995.06.02  hackers using Vanderbilt computers hack Air Force site - caught

1995.07.00  crackers tapped into Navy computer system and gained access to French and Allied data

1995.07.00  Julio Ardita of Argentina cracked into US military computers, Harvard, NASA

1995.07.25  Randal L Schwartz convicted of hacking under Oregon's Computer Crime Law

1995.07.28  hacker from Calgary freenet uses sendmail attack on gov sites

1995.08.04  hacker cracked NY Times Internet service, bringing it down

1995.08.15  several hackers crack Netscape 40-bit SSL; Damien Doligez used 120 computers

1995.09.11  Golle Cushing (Alpha Bits) arrested for selling credit card and cell phone info

1995.09.16  Berkeley students cracked Tower Records/Video computers; $20,000 charged

1995.09.17  Hackers discover weakness in Netscape random number generator; SSL cracked

1995.10.23  1st court-ordered wiretap on a computer network; at Harvard

1995.11.00  buffer overflow in Netscape Navigator host name made it vulnerable

1995.12.20  NASA Ames Research Center home page hacked

1995.12.28  Julio Ardita arrested in Argentina for hacking into Harvard

1996.00.00  Concept virus is 1st macro to affect Macs and PCs

1996.01.01  1st court authorized wiretap of an ISP; cell-fraud thru Compuserve

1996.01.15  Swedish computer hacker hacks into 911 phone system of Southern Bell; generated 911 calls in Florida

1996.01.22  Chaos taps cleartext transmission of banking information

1996.01.25  Russian pleads guilty of participating in Citibank wire fraud

1996.01.29  Digital Planet's web site for MGM/UA's "Hackers" Site hacked

1996.02.15  Hackers altered UK talking bus stops for use to the blind

1996.02.27  BerkshireNet in MA hacked; data erased and system shut down

1996.03.05  whitehouse.gov flooded with forged email; denial of service

1996.03.06  Boston ISPs hacked by U4ea; deleted Boston Globe web pages

1996.03.17  Telia, Sweden's biggest ISP, home page hacked

1996.04.05  N00gz indicted for computer fraud; accessed Bell, Sprint, SRI

1996.04.19  NYPD voice-mail system hacked

1996.04.27  Cambridge U hacked; confidential files broken into

1996.05.15  Datastream Cowboy from UK arrested for breaking into Rome Labs

1996.06.15  Two UK hackers charged with intruding into Lockheed computers

1996.06.20  14-year old arrested for using fraudulent credit card numbers

1996.06.25  hackers penetrate the public library network of a state

1996.07.05  1st known Excel virus, Laroux

1996.07.09  Ontario group gets into computers at a base in VA

1996.07.10  HS students crack a drink manufacturer's computer voice-mail system

1996.07.31  Tim Lloyd plants s/w time bomb at Omega Engineering in NJ; 1st federal computer sabotage case

1996.08.00  Fort Bragg soldier compromised military computer system; distributed passwords

1996.08.04  US hackers crack computers of the European parliament and commission

1996.08.16  Department of Justice home page hacked at www.usdoj.gov

1996.08.25  American Psychoanalytic Association hacked

1996.08.29  Nation of Islam web page hacked

1996.08.30  British Conservative Party webpage hacked

1996.09.00  Helsingius closes penet.fi anonymous remailer; Finnish police wants Scientology user

1996.09.06  hackers shut down PANIX, New York's Public Access Networks; SYN attack

1996.09.17  computer files with names of 4,000 AIDS patients taken in Florida

1996.09.18  CIA home page (www.odci.gov/cia) hacked by 5 Swedish hackers

1996.09.18  Internet Chess Club hit by hacker attack

1996.09.19  hacker cracks Palisades, NJ school system

1996.09.20  cancelbot attacks Usenet; 25,000 messages wiped out

1996.09.25  Kevin Mitnick indicted for damaging computers at USC, stealing s/w

1996.10.05  Wazzu virus released

1996.10.15  disgruntled employee wipes out all computer files at Digital Technologies Group

1996.10.22  hackers crack Czech banks; steal $2 million

1996.10.23  Fort Bragg, NC paratrooper hacked U.S. Army systems and gave passwords to China

1996.10.25  Florida Supreme Court home page hacked

1996.11.05  hackers attack anti-military site (www.insigniausa.com); erased files

1996.11.08  NY Times web site hit by SYN-flood attack; DoS

1996.11.10  Latin Summer Meeting home page hacked; porno and satire added

1996.11.12  Kriegsman furs web page hacked by animal rights activist; used phf hack

1996.11.17  hackers removed songs from computers at U2's Dublin studio

1996.11.21  Danish Research group get into computers at TX base

1996.11.22  NY city workers falsified computer records in largest tax fraud in NY

1996.11.26  Web site that provided news about Belarus leader was destroyed

1996.11.27  Nethosting and 1500 client home pages hacked

1996.11.29  Disgruntled computer technician brings down Reuters trading net in Hong Kong

1996.12.06  England's Labour Party web site hacked

1996.12.14  hackers attack WebCom, knocking out 3,000 web sites; used SYN-flood

1996.12.16  hackers crack Yale School of Medicine web page with the phf hack

1996.12.16  NASA home page hacked (Goddard); hack has both frames and JavaScript

1996.12.20  6 Danish hackers sentenced for attacking Pentagon computers

1996.12.23  Zhangyi Liu arrested in Dayton for cracking into WPAFB computers; had passwords

1996.12.29  Air Force home page hacked at DTIC; DefenseLINK shut down

1996.12.30  NASA home page hacked again by StOrM

1997.01.06  Croatians intrude into computers at Anderson AFB, Guam

1997.01.08  hacker crashed California state agency computer - Legal Employment Network

1997.01.13  Crack dot Com hacked; Doom, Quake, Golgotha source code downloaded

1997.01.15  hacker sentenced to prison for reprogramming Taco Bell computers

1997.01.17  Government of Victoria, Australia home page hacked

1997.01.29  phf hack from Belgium to TX base

1997.02.03  hackers spoof Eastern Avionics web page to grab credit card numbers

1997.02.05  German Chaos group uses ActiveX and Quicken to withdraw money

1997.02.07  Planned Parenthood stops use of plannedparenthood.com domain name

1997.02.10  Indonesia's Dept of Foreign Affairs homepage hacked

1997.02.15  AOL Court TV site with news on OJ Simpson trial hacked

1997.03.03  Loran International hit by a denial of service attack

1997.03.05  NASA homepage hacked

1997.03.09  NCAA WWW site hacked; pages changed by 14-year old

1997.03.10  hacker disables Worcester, MA airport control tower for 6 hours and disrupts phone service in Rutland

1997.03.12  IP floods of SMTP causes DoS at base in VA

1997.03.16  The Well hit by hackers.  Passwords stolen, files deleted, trojans planted

1997.03.19  Spammer Cyber Promotions suffers hack attack

1997.04.00  internal hacker crashed Forbes Inc computer system; used "time bomb" and had passwords

1997.04.01  Malaysia's national telecommunications company home page hacked

1997.04.05  NASA web site hacked

1997.04.15  San Antonio's Express News web site server system hacked

1997.04.17  Cyber Promotions broken into, web page altered, password file stolen

1997.04.21  hacker provokes AOL to shut down Klan site 

1997.04.26  Amnesty International homepage hacked

1997.04.27  British Conservative Party got hacked

1997.05.15  hacker floods NASA communications to Atlantis Shuttle/Mir mission; delays transmission

1997.05.23  Carlos Salgado grabs 100,000 credit card numbers from San Diego; used a sniffer

1997.05.27  The Lost World Jurassic Park homepage hacked

1997.05.29  hacker hit LAPD

1997.06.00  Netcom voice-mail hacked by "Mr Nobody"

1997.06.03  Delaware law enforcement officers get teenager cracking NASA

1997.06.09  Eligible Receiver exercise designed to test DoD with attacks on doD information infrastructures

1997.06.11  USDA site hacked

1997.06.16  pro-spam hacker reported

1997.06.18  hackers in CO crack RSA's 56-bit DES encryption

1997.06.20  hackers caused denial of service to Microsoft's NT IIS web server

1997.06.25  Geocities frontpage got hacked

1997.06.30  hackers cause DoS on Microsoft NT server with header packets

1997.07.11  ESPN and nba.com (starwave) shut down after hacker emails shoppers credit info

1997.07.14  Danish computer guy finds hole in Netscape; asks for big reward money

1997.07.15  Canadian Security Intelligence Service got hacked

1997.07.18  hackers attack Swedish Crack-a-Mac site

1997.07.18  hackers attack MacInTouch - SYN flood

1997.08.01  Long Island group added a Trojan horse to hijack users' modem

1997.08.08  George Mason Univ students hacked their way into the Univ computers

1997.08.10  Cyper Promotions servers hacked

1997.08.16  Experian (TRW credit bureau) Internet allowed wrong credit reports

1997.08.18  Crack a Mac front page got hacked at hacke.infinit.se

1997.09.01  Altavista homepage got hacked (altavista.com)

1997.09.15  hackers hit coca-cola web site

1997.09.24  lince.com NT server got hakced

1997.09.25  Florida State School of Criminalogy NT server got hacked

1997.09.26  sterlingcorp.com NT server got hacked

1997.09.26  US Geological Survey NT server got hacked

1997.09.27  methodisthealth.com NT server got hacked

1997.09.30  ValueJet homepage got hacked

1997.10.01  hacker spoof SANS Security Digest newsletter; hacks into ClarkNet ISP

1997.10.05  hackers get into www.pentagon-ai.army.mil home page

1997.10.06  hacker breaks into Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)

1997.10.14  Yale e-mail account servers hacked; sniffer used

1997.10.19  RSA's RC5 56-bit encryption key cracked by Bovine effort

1997.10.31  Eugene Kashpureff arrested; redirected the NSI web page to his Alternic

1997.11.10 dragonserve.com hacked in Hong Kong

1997.11.11 DIU homepage hacked Claire Danes

1997.11.14 Spice Girls website hacked CodeZero

1997.11.15 China's Agricultural Univeristy hacked; condemned nuke tests

1997.11.21 Springfield College hacked Mr 9X (GM 288)

1997.11.23 SyMark Software hacked properstuff

1997.11.28 Local 2609 hacked Magica de Bin

1997.12.01 Secure Network Systems hacked Magica de Bin

1997.12.02 CA Dept of Fish and Game hacked

1997.12.04 e-mail bomb threat sent to Goodyear Tire store in WI Newman, Chad

1997.12.05 Fastcomm Australasia hacked Magica de Oct

1997.12.05 tourne.com hacked Claire Danes

1997.12.05 University of Technology, Sydney physics server hacked Magica

1997.12.06 five commercial sites hacked KAOS 97

1997.12.07 British Field Sports Society hacked Atrocity

1997.12.08 www.yahoo.com hacked pantz; h4gis

1997.12.09 Plumas Sierra, CA ISP hacked 404

1997.12.10 John Reilly signs hacked CyberToast

1997.12.10 OR Dept of Forestry website hacked CyberToast

1997.12.10 OneTouch, Inc hacked Claire Danes

1997.12.11 FOX network hacked; page pointed to NBC

1997.12.11 NetAdv hacked The Bookie

1997.12.11 HQ USAF homepage hacked; files renamed

1997.12.13 www.centerfold-aa.org hacked CyberToast

1997.12.13 Stanford homepage hacked

1997.12.13 35 sites hacked by the Legions of the Underground L.O.U.

1997.12.13 several com sites hacked CyberToast

1997.12.14 at least 7 com sites hacked newport

1997.12.14 Sarah Lawrence College and Diversified Data Systems hacked Claire Danes

1997.12.15 money shifted from 208 German bank accounts; security codes changed

1997.12.18 NetTime in Sweden hacked

1997.12.21 Progressive Woman website hacked properstuff

1997.12.21 Netstar in UK hacked KAOS 97

1997.12.21 Acura car dealership web site hacked properstuff

1997.12.21 Sierra On-Line games hacked

1997.12.22 Moody AFB homepage hacked

1997.12.22 ATEC software and www.ingmar.com hacked KAOS 97

1997.12.23 www.mpm.it homepage hacked

1997.12.25 www.lancasterhome.com hacked Claire Danes

1997.12.25 Rand J Trading homepage hacked StarCracker

1997.12.25 Net 4 Christ hacked newport

1997.12.26 U of Montreal Biomedical homepage hacked

1997.12.27 excelsior.arc.nasa.gov hacked Claire Danes

1997.12.29 several TV and radio websites hacked L.O.U.

1997.12.29 Taiwan web site hacked; bad ws_ftp files and password files

1997.12.30 First National Bank, Brookings, SD web site hacked

1997.12.30 www.k9breeders.com web site hacked

1997.12.31 Craig Enterprises hacked FTH

1997.12.31 at least 18 com and org sites hacked inhale

1997.12.31 18 com and net sites hacked newport

1997.12.31 Datatech Consulting, Sweden hacked 414

1997.12.31 China's Agricultural Univeristy hacked; FreeTibet Now

1998.02.19 Virgina schools hacked (Rockbridge)

1998.01.01 command to check passwords; went worldwide Abene, mark

1998.01.01 Quake web site hacked porno

1998.01.02 Janet Jackson and Rolling Stones web site hacked CodeZero

1998.01.02 BMW web site hacked

1998.01.03 Rapid City, SD ISP hacked

1998.01.03 www.hartnet.org hacked

1998.01.03 Association of Optometrists web site hacked OG (Older Generation)

1998.01.03 Marin, CA school hacked OptikLenz

1998.01.03 U of Costa Rica homepage hacked TikoZ

1998.01.03 Bolling AFB and Davis-Monthan AFB homepage hacked CodeZero

1998.01.04 Andorra NIC hacked

1998.01.04 Taiwan web site hacked; bad ws_ftp files and password files

1998.01.05 Sukura Japanes bank database broken into - customer data stolen Fujisawa

1998.01.05 TX A&M homepage hacked

1998.01.07 UNICEF homepage hacked

1998.01.07 Philips Communication hacked OptikLenz

1998.01.07 WV Network for Educational Telecomputing hacked OptikLenz

1998.01.08 Bureau of Labor Statistics flooded with fake info requests; shut down

1998.01.08 MD Board of Education hacked; files and payroll altered

1998.01.09 www.webbnet.com hacked Magica de Bin

1998.01.09 Gladsaxe Kommune, Denmark hacked Magica de Bin

1998.01.09 noemie.informatics.sintef.no hacked Virtus

1998.01.09 T/R systems hacked Virtus

1998.01.09 www.d-lab.com.ar (Argentina) hacked klan of dark afros

1998.01.10 Citizens Bank homepage hacked getwork guerillas

1998.01.10 ValuJet homepage hacked

1998.01.10 Easy Softwae hacked OptikLenz

1998.01.10 Mega-Bytes of Ohio hacked OptikLenz

1998.01.10 Reviewonline hacked OptikLenz

1998.01.10 Computer Tuto Training and Service hacked OptikLenz

1998.01.10 Youngstown Electric Company hacked OptikLenz

1998.01.11 ASI Net, Uruguay hacked Magica de Bin

1998.01.11 Silicon Investor NT server brought down by bonk DoS

1998.01.12 www.bass.com.my in Malaysia hacked

1998.01.12 ASI Net, Uruguay hacked Magica de Bin

1998.01.13 Boeing 401(k) temporary PIN numbers grabbed by hackers

1998.01.14 www.akam.tr (Turkey) hacked uberhacker

1998.01.14 Berkeley Instructional Technology Program hacked Magica de Bin

1998.01.14 WV Library Commission web site hacked

1998.01.15 www.emergent.com hacked L.O.U.

1998.01.15 military sites (.mil and some .gov) hacked - 200 servers Makareli, TooShort

1998.01.16 Tallahassee Freenet hacked; shut down to protect it

1998.01.16 Iowa Community College hacked by Zyklon (Eric Burns)

1998.01.16 SoftFair hacked bash

1998.01.16 Global Technology Marketing spam site killed

1998.01.17 www.scala.se software company hacked critic

1998.01.17 www.avd.nl hacked critic

1998.01.17 www.thebuzz.com KTBZ FM radio web site hacked

1998.01.18 over a dozen Indonesia web sites hacked LithiumError; ChiKo

1998.01.18 Industrial Dev Org of the UN hacked; unprotected Solaris box

1998.01.18 Branson school hacked

1998.01.18 Maine College hacked Zyklon

1998.01.18 Community Oriented On Line Networks hacked Mr 90

1998.01.18 www.kommanet.nl hacked critic

1998.01.19 www.kalnet.com hacked; running Apache on linux box

1998.01.20 Commission of the European Communities web site hacked Zyklon

1998.01.20 www.linkz.com web site hacked

1998.01.21 www.legislate.com hacked Noid

1998.01.21 www.bash.com hacked the hacker alliance

1998.01.22 www.kpc.lt hacked DaBoo

1998.01.22 Oakland, CA Unified School District webpage hacked tease

1998.01.24 www.kleiber.com hacked GiftGas

1998.01.24 Program One, Inc hacked SpiritWalker, Sn1per, GiftGas

1998.01.25 www.hartnet.org hacked OptikLenz

1998.01.25 Colorado Legal Eagles hacked pascal trio (zyklon)

1998.01.25 Univ of Seville server hacked Zyklon

1998.01.25 Ume University, Sweden hacked Toxic Edge

1998.01.26 www.homeguard.net hacked

1998.01.27 Walnut Ridge HS, Arkansas hacked OptikCore

1998.01.27 Virginia Commonwealth University hacked Zyklon

1998.01.27 Prairie View A&M Univ hacked Zyklon

1998.01.28 Internet traffic re-routed through USC computers as a test Postel, Jon

1998.01.28 www.datapark.net hacked GiftGas

1998.01.29 www.hackchat.com hacked Nation

1998.01.29 www.dragonserve.com hacked T.H.E.

1998.01.29 www.resopal.nl hacked SpiritWalker, Sn1per, SisterMoon

1998.01.29 www.connectos.com SpiritWalker, Sn1per, SisterMoon

1998.01.30 Calagary Unix Users Group hacked sreality and #pascal crew

1998.01.30 AllSeasons Travel hacked Claire Danes

1998.01.31 www.webbnet.com hacked xenon

1998.01.31 www.gpg.com hacked xenon

1998.01.31 www.branson.org hacked xenon

1998.02.01 www.netbank.net.tw hacked

1998.02.01 Langley AFB home page hacked Noid Crew

1998.02.01 Kuwait University home page and domain hacked

1998.02.01 www.tamu-commerce.edu hacked xenon

1998.02.02 www.pcconcepts.com hacked zipoff, Hosser

1998.02.04 mexico finance ministry hacked LoTek (High Tech Teens)

1998.02.04 www.ddd.fr hacked

1998.02.05 cccookies hacked Kalony

1998.02.07 dynatek infoworld hacked tech voodoo crew

1998.02.07 computer beratung direkt hacked the Amish Ninjas

1998.02.07 presage internet hacked JF Josh Freedaleman

1998.02.07 boimag in UK hacked JF Josh Freedaleman

1998.02.08 Uniformed Services University of Health Science hacked No|d Crew

1998.02.08 over 20 com sites hacked brain candy

1998.02.08 thermocret site hacked JF Josh Freedaleman

1998.02.08 nuvocom site hacked No|d Crew

1998.02.08 tvweather hacked tech voodoo crew

1998.02.08 danehio entertainment hacked Lord Acid

1998.02.08 century die hacked Lord Acid

1998.02.08 over a dozen sites hacked Bill Gates hackers

1998.02.09 SunSITE hacked in Hong Kong Magica de Bin

1998.02.10 www.knesset.gov.il hacked

1998.02.11 www.odi.com.pl (Poland) hacked TPSA team

1998.02.12 www.on-the-hook.com hacked Noid/TechVoodoo

1998.02.12 www.conceptsvisual.com hacked (concepts visual) Noid/TechVoodoo

1998.02.12 www.1792.com (arthur register) hacked Noid/TechVoodoo

1998.02.14 www.gov.com hacked LordSomer, The Hackers Layer

1998.02.16 www.vpac.org (virtual police) hacked lunar.shake.org

1998.02.16 www.phpages.com hacked Noid/TechVoodoo

1998.02.17 Alis Technologies hacked Magica de Bin

1998.02.17 www.top50mp3.com hacked Prizm

1998.02.18 Thermocresteusa hacked JF Josh Freedaleman

1998.02.18 XHN Industries hacked KaGe of Mising Link

1998.02.19 Intellus in Norway hacked

1998.02.19 Interpraesenz Online Service hacked amish group

1998.02.19 Saatchi & Saatchi hacked (used shockeave) trix and vertes

1998.02.19 maxout hacked JF Josh Freedaleman

1998.02.20 Thomas More College hacked Magica de Bin

1998.02.21 humblebums.com hacked Noid/TechVoodoo

1998.02.21 Jacksonville U hacked

1998.02.22 One Life Crew hacked

1998.02.22 Huntingtimes.com hacked cyberchrist

1998.02.22 allwrestling.com hacked cyberchrist

1998.02.23 Systematic.com hacked Claire Danes

1998.02.24 GeBeKo in Germany hacked

1998.02.24 16 sports, cars, toy stores hacked Kalony

1998.02.24 webglass.com hacked Claire Danes

1998.02.24 duesseldorf.com hacked Claire Danes

1998.02.24 hellas-on-business (Greece) hacked Claire Danes

1998.02.25  MIT Plasma and Fusion Center (PSFC) and DoD computers hacked by Analyzer (Ehud Tenenbaum)

1998.02.26  Solar Sunrise - DoD hacks (7 AF sites, 2 navy sites)

1998.02.27 Napier University, Edinburgh, UK hacked Magica de Bin

1998.02.27 Hypermall (athena.hypermall.com) hacked The Noid / TechVoodoo

1998.02.27 BEBEnterprises (www.localafffairs.com) hacked The Noid / TechVoodoo

1998.03.01 Sprint International Global One hacked Simon

1998.03.02 Persatuan Hackers Indonesia hacked

1998.03.03 NetDex ISP hacked by The Analyzer and The Enforcers (Tennenbaum)

1998.03.03 Izmir College, Turkey hacked Painfall for Ravena

1998.03.03 U of Bordeaux hacked Magica de Bin

1998.03.04 At least 25 universities hacked (exploiting Windows 95 and NT)

1998.03.04 Yuzuncu Yil U hacked

1998.03.05 Cybermall hacked

1998.03.05 Nambla.org hacked 74074

1998.03.06 PBS server hacked Zyklon

1998.03.07 Jerusalem Post hacked

1998.03.08 Brookhaven National Lab hacked Toxic 'n Xnec

1998.03.08 Rainbow Casino hacked seal

1998.03.08 US Army 7th Brigade hacked Noid

1998.03.08 US Army Air Defense Artillery School at Ft Bliss hacked Noid

1998.03.08 US Army executive s/w systems directorate hacked Noid

1998.03.08 Patricia Seybold Group hacked Noid

1998.03.09 Naval Space Command hacked The Noid / TechVoodoo

1998.03.09 Keystone Central School District hacked Zyklon

1998.03.09 Cheesi s/w hacked

1998.03.10 K12 domain hacked

1998.03.10 NASA Ames (zeus.arc.nasa.gov) hacked Magica de Bin

1998.03.10 Learninglink.org hacked

1998.03.15 Stockton Community Wide Web hacked

1998.03.17 University of Minnesota hacked

1998.03.18  Ehud Tenenbaum arrested for hacking (The Analyzer)

1998.03.30 T-Online (German telephone company) hacked

1998.04.09 Stanford reloaded files from corrupt backup tape, destroying faculty files

1998.04.17  NASA computers at JPL broken into and rootkit added (Raymond Torricelli)

1998.04.22 DISN (DISA) hacked; DEM hacked which controls GPS Masters of Download (MoD)

1998.00.00  Presidential Decision Directive 63 signed; protect nation's critical infrastructure

1998.05.00  Max Vision (Max Butler), the Equalizer released backdoor to military computers

1998.05.30 AOL social engineered to grant access into the ACLU web site

1998.06.15 Indian nuclear research center servers hacked MilW0rm

1998.06.23 new Word macro virus - WM/Poly-Poster

1998.06.30 US Coast Guard personnel database wiped out by disgruntled employee Singla, S

1998.07.00  Meganet in CA sees massive attacks against them; tracked back to Russia Academy of Sciences

1998.07.05 300 web sites hacked Milw0rm and Ashtray Luberjacks

1998.07.10 ProHost hacked Milw0rm

1998.07.15 Time Warner Systems hacked LoU

1998.07.17 Back Orfice introduced Cult of Dead Cow (cDc)

1998.08.00  Navy sees more intrusions in Pac Fleet and Pacific Command

1998.08.01 45 Indonesian sites hacked KaotiK Team

1998.08.15 180,000 passwords stolen; 48,000 cracked by Jack the Ripper program

1998.08.23 Paramount web site hacked Zyklon (Seattle - LoU)

1998.08.24 Internet Alaska hacked;  attacked by the smurf attack

1998.08.30 Australian government's web site hacked

1998.09.13 NY Times hacked HFG (Hacking for Girlies)

1998.09.17 2,585 US West computers hacked to find prime number Blosser, Aaron

1998.09.19 hackers sabatoge web site of Sweden's main opposition pary

1998.09.20 hackers from 15 locations attacking Navy web sites (SHADOW sees trends at SPAWAR)

1998.09.23 internet auction sites have had their credit cards, info, exposed

1998.10.01 www.slashdot.org hacked

1998.10.01 24,000 domains hacked; hosted by japan.co.jp Legions OfThe Underground

1998.01.01 300 domains hacked Ashtray Lumberjacks

1998.10.07 478 domains hacked Cha0s

1998.10.13 4 men installed chips in gas pumps to cheat consumers

1998.10.13 DoD attacks hacker group with information warfare techniques Electronic Disruption Theater

1998.10.15 hackers invade India army site about Kashmir

1998.10.27 China's Human Rights site Hacked bronc (LoU)

1998.10.28 Rootshell hacked thru ssh-1.2.26

1998.11.00 Cloverdale Two sentenced to 3 years probation

1998.11.06 hacker convicted of hacking into U of Iowa and U of Wisconsin Mitra, Rajib

1999.11.15  Varna Hacking Group cracks home page for te Cartoon Network cable channel

1999.02.01 Canadian team charged in Smurf attack; attacked Sympatico ISP

1999.02.16 id Software website defaced (Doom and Quake) using uploader.ex

1999.02.19 COMDEX Website Defaced E-pROM

1999.02.01 www.conservative.org hacked Diablo

1999.01.13 Censure and Move On site hacked

1999.02.15 15 year old from Vienna hacks into Clemson U

1999.02.23 Dutch site, www.vaart.nl, hacked

1999.03.00  Moonlight Maze Russian Academy of Sciences hacking attacks against DoD

1999.03.03 Monicalewinsky.com site hacked MagicFX

1999.03.15 Navy's Medical Information Mgt Center in Bethesda hacked Russian supporters of Serbia

1999.03.24 NATO web site in Brussels knocked down Serb hackers

1999.03.29 Melissa macro virus affects 100,000 email users; written by David Smith

1999.04.04 Canadian hackers attack 13 major corporate sites Yorkshire Posse

1999.04.15  I. Iffih hacks into ZMOS, Washington State and into NASA and DDLA

1999.04.20 Patuxent River Naval Air Station spammed with "Serbia is here" email Belgrade hacker

1999.04.21 hacker broke into Washington National Airport air traffic control frequency

1999.04.23 hacker breaks into U of Washington web site gh (global hell)

1999.04.26 Chernobyl CIH virus

1999.05.01  Dutch hackers (Dutchthreat) hack Yugoslav web server

1995.05.05  hacker steals Hotmail passwords

1999.05.07  Hackers targeting US sites (DOE, Dept of Interior) in protest of Chinese embassy bombing in Belgrade

1999.05.11  Hack against White House web site (www.whitehouse.com) by global hell

1999.05.26  hack against FBI web site

1999.05.27  hack against US Senate web site

1999.06.01  Interior Department hit by hackers

1999.06.10  Pipeline operated by Olympic Pipeline Co ruptured near Bellingham, WA, flooding creeks and caused fire that killed 3.  Control-system failure.  SCADA computers fialed to respond to pressure increase

1999.06.11  hack against US Senate web site again (Varna Hacking Group)

1999.07.07  Back Orifice 2000 released

1999.08.30  ABC news broken in by  "The United Loan Gunman"

1999.09.30  Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines hacked by Sarin

1999.09.06  C-Span broken in by "The United Loan Gunman"

1999.09.07  Level Seven Crew hack US Embassy in China

1999.09.07  Scottish Executive Website hacked by Scotland hackers

1999.09.08  KKK site hacked

1999.09.09  International Association for Counterterrorism & Security Professionals hacked by bowlerz

1999.09.09  AOL ICQ passwords stolen with trojan horse disguised as jpeg file

1999.09.13  Drudge Report broken in by "The United Loan Gunman"

1999.09.13  South Africa's official statistics website hacked

1999.09.15  Nasdaq and American Stock Exchange broken in by "The United Loan Gunman"

1999.09.19  NAACP broken in by "The United Loan Gunman"

1999.09.20  hackers penetrated Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly; took control og gas flow in pipelines

1999.09.22  Rogers University hacked by bl0w team

1999.09.23  Ranger Power hacked by LevelSeven

1999.10.06  Content Scrambling System (CSS) cracked by 15-year old Jon Lech Johansen (Norway), nomad, and mdx - created DeCSS

2000.01.10  CD Universe hacked by Maxus; 350,000 credit cards stolen; $100K ransom demanded; numbers posted on Web

2000.01.15  Curador steals over 23,000 credit card numbers from 8 small companies

2000.01.17  Library of Congress web site defaced by LmT; users prevented from accessing congressional legislation

2000.02.07  Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Buy.com, CNN hit with a distributed DoS; done my MafiaBoy (Michael Calce)

2000.02.09  ZDNet and e*trade hit with a DDoS; done my MafiaBoy of Canada

2000.02.15  Ray Torricelli hacks into JPL computers; stole credit card numbers and passwords

2000.03.12  Crime Boys from Brazil hack Interior Deptl Army ROTC, JPL

2000.03.15  Raphael Gray arrested for stealing crdit card information; used Gates credit details

2000.03.20  Vitek Boden hacked the Maroochy Shire sewage control site in Australia and causes raw sewage to spill

2000.03.27  Franklin Adams released a computer worm that had the potential to tie up the nation's 911 network

2000.03.28  hacker puts sniffer program between AMC at Scott AFB and DOT in MA

2000.05.00  GAO auditors gain access to many DoD sensitive sites

2000.05.15  Love Bug virus sent from Philippines; AMA computer college

2000.06.01  Qualcomm in San Diego hacked by U of Wisconsin student

2000.06.04  Internet.com hijacked

2000.06.15  hacker cracks into Redhotant and steals 24,000 credit card numbers in Kent

2000.06.18  AOL cracked with trojan horse program; 500 subscribers had information stolen

2000.06.20  life stages virus

2000.06.21  Nike site hacked by S-11 group

2000.07.07  Powergen in UK cracked; credit card numbers stolen

2000.08.15  Bret McDanel (Secret Squirrel) spams his company's (Tornado) computer in Del Mar, CA; charged with spamming

2000.09.15  Western Union hacked; 15,000 credit cards exposed

2000.09.26  Jason Diekman (Shadow Knight, Dark Lord) arrested; hacked JPL, Stanford, Harvard

2000.10.00  Microsoft hacked by St Petersburg hacker

2000.11.10  FBI lure 2 Russians to Seattle, monitor connections, hack into russian servers; 1st government hack

2000.12.13  55,000 credit card numbers stolen from Creditcards.com; hacker tried to extort the company; numbers exposed on the Web

2000.12.15  Egghead.com hacked; they have 3.7 million customers; banks issued new credit cards

2000.12.24  hackers steal source code for OS/COMET by Exigent (Melbourne, FL) from US Naval Research Lab

2001.01.15  Indianu U School of Music hacked; stolen Social Security numbers, etc

2001.01.18  Mafiaboy pleads guilty to hacker charges in Montreal

2001.01.22  hacks against CA Republican caucus and Alaska Dept of Interior; US, UK, Australia

2001.01.24  misconfigured router cuts off some Microsoft sites

2001.01.26  hackers attack official Vatican radio website

2001.02.01  hacker steals data from the World Economic Forum, including credit cards

2001.02.12  Anna Kournikova virus released by OnTheFly (20 year old Dutchman)

2001.02.23  Ikenna Iffih charged for hacking NASA, DoD

2001.03.01  40 e-commerce sites in 20 states hacked by Russian groups; million credit card numbers stolen

2001.03.15  Updated version of backdoor program SubSeven (ver 2.2) released

2001.04.11  Consumer Product Safety Commision hacked by COBR4S

2001.04.12  Chinese hackers attack US web sites over spy plane issue; hack Navy Acquisition system

2001.05.07  Diablo2 game site hacked

2001.05.04  Gibson Research Corp hacked by 13 year old (wicked)

2001.05.11  Solaris/IIS worm

2001.05.15  hackers attack U of Washington and put file sharing program on its computers

2001.05.17  Fluffy bunny hacks Apache.org and SourceForge linux site

2001.05.24  Indiana U hacked with the rpc.statd buffer

2001.05.25  Whitehouse.gov hacked, causing denial of service (May 4 repeat)

2001.06.01  Cal-ISO power distribution center web servers and Solaris servers hacked

2001.06.13  "security" domain sites hacked

2001.06.13  European Union "Safer Internet" site hacked

2001.06.14  California Independent System Operators power grid hacked

2001.06.15  ex US Senator's wife sent email nastygrams using hotmail; gets caught

2001.06.20  Zixit credit card database accessed

2001.07.19  Code Red/SirCam

2001.07.23  Dmitry Sklyarov arrested at DefCon for creating program to copy Adobe electronic books

2001.07.15  Ecount gift certificate service hacked by Zilterio; demanded $45,000 to protect 350,000 customers

2001.08.21  Washington-based Riggs bank Visa customer database hacked into

2001.09.18  Nimda worm

2001.09.20  Aaron Caffrey caused a DoS at the Port of Houston using a unicode exploit with 100,000 ping requests

2001.10.10  Vasily Gorshkov convicted of 20 counts of fraud and computer crimes; he stole credit card numbers; defrauded PayPal

2001.10.18  Windows Media Player 7 DRM (.wma file) cracked by Beale Screamer

2001.11.15  insecure satellite link not encrypted allowed for spy satellite images

2001.11.19  156 web sites hosted by Vietnam hacked by revengetheplanet

2001.11.20  playboy.com hacked by Ingreslock; credit card numbers grabbed

2001.11.20  25 church web sites hacked by Hacking for Satan

2001.11.24  Qualcomm hacked by someone at U of Wisconsin

2001.11.25  BadTrans worm

2001.11.27  2 former Cisco accountants sentenced to 34 months for breaking into company computers and stealing stock

2001.12.04  Goner worm

2001.12.07  4 Israeli college students arrested for creating Goner

2001.12.10  GAO site hacked by Anti India Crew (Alqaeda Muslim Alliance)

2001.12.19  Zacker (Maldal) worm

2002.02.15  Lamo hacks New York Times

2002.03.10  Georgia Tech hacked; financial records and credit cards exposed

2002.04.15  Klez virus; 800,000 copies

2002.04.22  Deceptive Duo hacks into US Navy web site

2002.04.23  Deceptive Duo hacks into NASA and DOT web site

2002.04.24  Deceptive Duo hacks the FAA

2002.04.29  Deceptive Duo hacks into Colorado airport web site

2002.04.30  Indiana State University accidently posts personal info on 10,000 students on the Web

2002.05.01  holes discovered in Best Buy and Home Depot wireless LANs

2002.05.10  California State Controller computer hacked; 265,000 names exposed

2002.05.24  Kim Schmitz (kimble hacker (YIHAT)) convicted of insider trading of LetsBuyIt

2002.05.28  TheNerds.Net online electronics store hacked by Zilterio; 100,000 customers

2002.12.15  Hacker gained access to a modular hybrid controller, causing DoS and loss of equpment control

2003.01.25  Slammer (Sapphire) worm; fastest worm in history; affected Microsoft SQL servers; 100,000 hosts

2003.01.25  Slammer penetrates Davis-Bessie nucclear power plant in Ohio, disabling safety monitoring system

2003.05.15  SQL Slammer worm shuts down a Distributed Control system (DCS)

2003.06.04  Bugbear worm; tries to steal passwords and credit card information

2003.07.15  JuJu Jiang arrested for putting a keystroke logger on a New York Kinko's computer.

2003.07.30  DCOM/RPC exploit detected

2003.08.07  Acxion hacked, customer information exposed; hacked by Daniel Baas of Ohio

2003.08.11  Blaster worm; uses the dcom rpc exploit

2003.08.14  9,300 square mile blackout in the Northeast and Cananda may have been caused by Chinese hackers

2003.08.18  Sobig.F worm; $50 million in damages; source of program was porn site

2003.08.18  Nachi (Welchia) worm; tries to remove Blaster worm and put on patch

2003.08.30  MiMail email worm

2003.09.05  Dan Diobanu of Romania arrested for Blaster-F worm

2003.09.09  Adrian Lamo surrenders to federal authorities for hacking New York Times

2003.09.18  Swen (Gibe) worm; looks like a Microsoft advisory

2003.09.20  anti-spam sites hacked by spammers

2003.09.24  1,000 car shoppers' credit details exposed in bulk on Dealerskins

2003.09.26  Jeffrey Parson arrested for writing blaster worm variant

2003.09.29  Brett O'Keefe, CEO of ForensicTec Solutions, arrested for hacking into military and government computers

2003.10.01  QHosts Trojan Horse; alters DNS settings

2003.10.09  Van Dinh arrested for cyber stock scam

2003.08.14  Northeast blackout due to massive power fluctuation; strained power lines came in contact with overgrown trees; software bug prevented alarms from showing on their control system; primary server failed; race condition bug

2003.10.25  Three Michigan men get into Lowe's wireless computer system and steal credit card information

2003.11.05  Brazilian police arrest 18 Internet hackers

2003.11.15  iTunes DRM cracked by Jon Lech Johansen

2003.12.15  Nachi worm affects 8 process control servers in a petrochemical company; loss of production for 5 hours

2003.12.22  Lech Johansen acquitted of hacking into DVD security codes

2004.01.26  Mydoom (Novarg) virus released

2004.03.15  T-Mobile USA internal systems hacked, including Paris Hilton;s cell phone data

2004.04.15  computers at Patuxent River NAS, White Sands Missile Range, and JPL hacked by Stakkato

2004.04.29  Sasser worm (netsky) released by Sven Jaschan in Germany; also by Russian hacker Houseofdabus

2004.04.30  Sasser affects Goldman Sachs, British Aireays, Taiwan post offices, and oil platforms off of Mexico

2004.05.15  portion of Cisco's IOS code illegally copied and posted on the Internet; done by Swedish teenager

2004.09.17  Air traffic control in Los Angeles had its radio system shut down without warning during data purge

2004.10.15  University of Texas student hacked into the school and stole info on 37,000 students and employees

2004.11.15  University of Georgia school computer hacked, which may have exposed 32,000 student credit card numbers

2004.12.14  Michigan man sentenced to 9 years for hacking into Lowe's hardware stores

2004.12.15  Zafi Merry Christmas worm released

2004.12.31  Daniel Cuthbert releases the Tsunami donation hack

2005.01.15  Windows Media DRM 10 cracked

2005.03.04  Harvard, MIT, and Stanford business schools admissions hacked

2005.03.20  California State University at Chico hacked; information on students stolen

2005.06.15  hacker may ave accessed 40 million credit card numbers from CardSystems Solutions, Inc

2005.06.20  University of Southern California online application system hacked

2005.08.25  Chinese hackers may be hacking into US government computers; FBI investigating

2005.09.14  Teenager sentenced 11 months for the T-Mobile and Paris Hilton cell phone hack

2004.09.15  Hacker accessed UC Berkeley research being done for Dept of Social Services; info on 600,000 people exposed

2005.06.02  South Korea MSN hacked and password-stealing software planted on it

2005.09.19  University of Georgia hacked; info on 1,600 employees, incuding Social Security numbers, accessed

2005.10.05  Daniel Cuthbert convicted of breaking the Computer Misuse Act from releasing the Tsunami donation hack

2005.10.12  Microsoft Windows Genuide Advantage antipiracy system cracked

2006.04.15  State Department affected by Trojan horse found in e-mail

2006.08.19  FairUse4WM released to remove Windows Media DRM 10 and 11 (PlaysForSure) protection; written by Viodentia

2007.08.10  Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in AL shuts down after network packet storms cuase the drives operating the recirculation system to fail

2006.10.09  hackers gained access to Harrisburg, PA water treatment plant; used to distribute emails or pirated s/w

2006.12.01  TiVoToGo DRM cracked

2006.12.26  muxlix64 cracks the Advanced Access Content system (AACS) DRM for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray; releases BackupHDDVD

2007.01.01  Homeland Security Department suffers 850 attacks in two year period; password sniffer installed

2007.01.15  Alex Ionescu cracks Vista DRM

2007.03.15  Generator room at the Idaho National Lab was accessed by a hacker (Aurora Generator test) and $1 million fenerator destoyed; operating cycle changed

2007.04.20  denial of service attacks cripples many Estonian computers; done by Dmitri Galushkevich

2007.06.15  1.3fix-2 released to crack MS DRM blackbox components (IBX), interfacing with Vista and Zune

2007.07.14  Zune DRM Stripper released

2007.08.10  Monster.com hacked; 1.3 million resumes grabbed

2007.08.15  Vertical Web Media hacked; credit card info stolen

2007.08.15  Employee of Tehama Colusa Canal Authority in Willows, CA installed unauthorized sotware to divert water

2007.09.15  Hackers (MediaDefender-Defenders) leak MediaDefender emails

2007.09.17  Layered Technologies cracked through the Cerberus Helpdesk application

2007.09.20  hacker breaks into email system for Defense Secretary Robert Gates's office

2007.12.15  Spyware programs discovered on US trade delegation computers to China

2007.12.20  Calgary financia company (Direct Cash Management) hacked by the Analyzer (Ehud Tenenbaum)

2007.12.30  43,800 incidents of malicious activity against DoD computer in 2007

2008.02.28  minor glitch in FP&L electrical grid triggered a chain reaction that causes a nuclear plant to shut down

2008.03.15  Hatch nuclear power plant in GA went through an emergency shutdown as a result of a s/w update

2008.05.28  hackers divert Comcast traffic

2008.09.11  hackers deface Large Hadron Collider web site

2008.09.16  Rubico (David Kernell?) cracks into Gov Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account

2008.09.18  hacker compromises data on 11,000 students at U of Indianapolis

2008.09.18  O'Reilly web site hacked after comments about Palin hack

2008.11.08  hackers get into ATMs in Atlanta at RBS WorldPay and steal 100 customers' ATM cards, cloned them, then hit 130 ATM sites around the world to steal $9 million in 30 minutes from 49 cities

2008.11.27  Lorain County Community College in Ohio hacked; application files downloaded

2008.12.01  Canadian business voice-mail hacked; hundreds of calls to Bulgaria; $43,000 bill

2009.01.25  phpBB wib site hacked due to a vulnerability in the PHPlist newletter manager

2009.01.28  ND parking ticket tells users to got to a web site do download a toolbarl downloads a trojan horse

2009.01.29  hackers get into Kaspersky customer database; 25,000 product activation codes were at risk; SQL vulnerability

2009.01.30  monster.com and usajobs.gov hacked again

2009.02.01  highways signs being hacked - lane closed due to zombies or raptors ahead

2009.02.01  www.cedar-rapids.org hacked by linuXploit crew

2009.02.02  hackers break into FAA computer system, accessing 45,000 names and Social Security numbers

2009.04.04  Conficker worm infiltrated millions of PCs worldwide including many government-level top-security computer networks

2009.12.01  Stuxnet work attacked SCADA systems, mostly in Iran.

2010.06.01  Cyber attacks (Operatin Aurora) by the People's Liberation Army against 20 companies

2010.12.03  An advanced malware for the Symbian operating system released.

2011.04.09  Bank of American website hacked, stealing 85,000 credit card numbers

2011.04.17  PlayStation network hacked, compromising 77 million accounts

2011.09.01  700,000 websited defaced by a Bangladeshi hacker

2011.10.16  Sesam Street YouTube channel hacked, streaming porn for 22 minutes

2011.11.01  Palestinian territories had their phone and internet networks hacked

2011.11.07  Forums for Valve's Steam game service hacked and redirected to hack site

2012.01.01  Saudi hacker published 400,000 credi cards online

2012.02.05  Israeli published over 200 Saudi credit cards online

2012.02.03  Mariott hacked by Attila Nemeth

2012.02.08  Foxconnhacked by "Swagg Security"

2012.05.04  Website of several Turkish internatinal business defaced by FORTYS3V3N

2012.05.24  WHMCS web host manager hacked by UGNazi

2012.05.31  MyBB hacked and website defaced by UGNazi

2012.06.05  Linked hacked and 6.5 million user accounts stolen

2012.08.15  Saudi Aramco hit by cyber warfare attack from Iran.  35,000 computers ruined

2012.12.17  SCADA systems attacked in 9 countries by sl1nk

2013.05.01  Tumbir social networking website attacked.  Over 65 million passwords leaked

2014.01.15  bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox attacked by hackers, stealing $460 million

2014.06.01  State Depeartment email hacked

2014.10.25  White House computer systems hacked

2014.11.24  Servers of Sony Pictures hacked by "Guardian of Peace"

2014.11.29  Globe Telecom website in the Philippines hacked

2015.05.15  Ardit Ferizi hacked US servers and passed the info to members of the ISIL terrorist group

2015.06.01  Records of 21.5 million  stolen from the Office of Personnel Management

2015.07.15  Servers of the extramarital affairs website Ashely Madison hacked

2016.02.15  Bangladesh Bank hacked; $101 million stolen

2016.07.22  WikiLeaks published documents from the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak

2016.07.29  Vietnam Airlines website hacked by Chinese hackers

2016.08.13  "the Shadow Brokers" published hacking tools used by the NSA

2016.10.15 Deloitte professional services hacked;  Clients and 244,000 staff affected

2016.10.21  Distributed Denial of service (DDOS) attack against Dyn DNS provider

2016.12.15  Uber hacked, grabbing 57 million names and 600,000 drive's license numbers

2017.04.15  "The Dark Overlord" posted unreleased episodes of Orange Is the New Black TV show

2017.05.12  WannaCry ransomware attack, which affected over 230,000 computers

2017.05.20  Grozio Chirurgica cosmetic surgery clinic in Lithuania hacked; 25,000 photos stolen

2017.05.30  Equifax consumer credit reporting agency hacked.  145 million records stolen

2017.06.27  Petya malware attacked many Ukrainian and 7 other country organizations 

2017.12.05  Mecklenburg County, NC, computer systems hocked by ransomware

2018.03.10  Atlanta computer system hacked with ransomware by Iranians

2018.04.30  Wasaga Beach in Ontario computer systems hacked by ransomware

2018.10.15  West Haven , CT computer systems hacked by ransomware

2018.11.20  Starwood Hotels, a division of Marriott, hacked

2019.03.15  Jackson County, GA computer systems hacked by ransomware

2019.03.29  Albany, NY, computers hacked by ransomware

2019.04.05  Augusta, Maine computer hacked by ransomware

2019.04.10  Greenville, NC computer systems hacked by RobbinHood ransomware

2019.04.15  Imperial Co, CA computer systems hacked by Ryuk ransomware

2019.05.21  Baltimore computer systems hacked by RobbinHood ransomware

2019.06.11  Hackers stole 18 hours of unreleased music from the band Radiohead

2019.06.19  Riviera Beach, FL computer systems hacked by ransomware

2020.02.04  United Nations website hacked

2020.05.28 Minneapolis police and City of Minneapolis website hacked

2020.06.01  Chicgo police radios hacked

2020.06.05  Buffalo, NY website hacked

2020.06.22 Atlanta Police Department website taken down by a DDOS attack

2020.06.29  Robobox multiplayer online game company had over 1,000 accounts hacked

2020.07.20  Wattpad writing database hacked with over 200 million records stolen and leaked

2020.08.14  Poland Can Into Space hacker group manipulated a satellite in space at DEF CON

2020.08.25  New Zealand stock market shut down after multiple DDOS attacks

2020.09.17  Hospital in Dusseldorf attacked by ransomware; a patient died from the cyberattack

2020.12.02  email attack on COVID-19 vaccine supply chain

2020.12.11  18,000 customers of SolarWinds have a compromised s/w update

2020..12.12  Russian hackers attack Dept of Treasury, Dept of Commerce, and FireEye

2020.12.13  Russian hackers hit DHS, DoD, NIH, and State Dept