16-30 April 2016 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Reading Time: < 1 | Published: May 23, 2016 in Industry News
Tags: cyber attacks, cybercrime
It’s now time to publish the second timeline of April (Part I here) covering the main cyber-attacks occurred between 16 and 30 April 2016. A fortnight quite reach of interesting events, and characterized by two trends inherited from the first half of the month: the trail of massive breaches, and the endless row of W-2 scams.
The first category includes now two new victims: Beautifulpeople.com, which had 1.1M accounts leaked, and the Lifeboat Minecraft community, whose number leaked account achieves the remarkable number of 7M. The group of victims of W-2 scams is really too wide to mention each single entity, however ADP is probably the most noticeable victim of this second half of April.
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