16-30 April 2016 Cyber Attacks Timeline

[vc_row parallax=”” parallax_image=”” row_type=”row” type=”full_width” anchor=”” in_content_menu=”” content_menu_title=”” content_menu_icon=”” text_align=”left” video=”” video_overlay=”” video_overlay_image=”” video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_image=”” background_image=”” section_height=”” background_color=”” border_color=”” padding=”” padding_top=”” padding_bottom=”” more_button_label=”” less_button_label=”” button_position=”” color=”” css_animation=”” transition_delay=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]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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