Recently, the Twitter and Pinterest accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg were hacked. These accounts were hacked by group called OurMine Team. This is just one of the major cyber attacks that surfaced. Here is a list of 5 major cyber attacks that happened recently which left many running for cyber cover:
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Cybersecurity leader Symantec recently revealed that more than 2,500 Twitter accounts have been compromised and are tweeting links to adult dating and sex websites. The attackers changed the profile photo and the basic information of the accounts to promote adult sites. The breach affected a number of high-profile accounts including ones belonging to the band Chromeo, a journalist working for The Telegraph, stand-up comedian Azeem Banatwala, Houston Texans wide receiver Cecil Shorts III and the late New York Times reporter David Carr.
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Last month, LinkedIn confirmed a breach that happened in 2012, which led to more than 100 million of its users' passwords being compromised. In an email sent out to all its members, LinkedIn admitted that the massive data breach in 2012 may result in millions of passwords being leaked to the internet. The data breach involved cyber theft of email addresses, hashed passwords and LinkedIn member IDs (an internal identifier LinkedIn assigns to each member profile) from 2012.
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India's largest e-commerce website IRCTC came in the news recently when the reports surfaced of the website being hacked. Data of around 10 million customers was feared to have been stolen from the server of the e-ticketing portal. However, IRCTC denied reports of the hack and issued an official statement for the same. But a Bengaluru-based cyber-security startup, Fallible, provided details on how exactly the data leak can easily happen on the IRCTC website.
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CEO of India's biggest e-commerce website Flipkart Binny Bansal's official email account was hacked and two mails were sent from it to the company's CFO asking to transfer $80,000. It was later found that the account was not hacked but spoofed. A spoofed email does not originate from the real source but from a different source falsifying the name and address with an ulterior motive.
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The theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh's central bank found that the international banking payments network SWIFT committed a number of mistakes in connecting a local network, which led to the hack and since then investigators are said to have identified breaches at as many as 12 other banks. The SWIFT network which allows banks to process billions of dollars in transfers each day is considered the backbone of international banking. After this, SWIFT said it plans to launch a new security programme as it fights to rebuild its reputation.