A comprehensive inventory of the most internationally influential hacking incidents in 2016!

In the past 2016, many large-scale and shocking cyber attacks occurred. The targets of the attacks include many large technology companies, government organizations, and even national party and government agencies, which have been attacked many times in high-profile cases! These attacks directly led to the leakage of millions of people’s sensitive personal information, which was illegally sold on the underground black market.

During the year, Yahoo’s massive information leak was revealed. Even national intelligence service agencies such as the NSA cannot avoid being used and attacked by hackers. This year's US election was also exposed to the interference of Russian hackers in the election. As this year comes to an end, cybercrime will also undergo new evolutions and upgrades, and the challenges we face will become more difficult!

The following PHP Chinese website, China’s largest PHP community (www.php.cn), takes stock of the most internationally influential hacking incidents in 2016!

    The official website of Thinkphp, the most widely used open source framework by domestic users, was attacked

In the first week of the new year of 2017, Thinkphp, the most widely used open source framework by domestic users, was attacked The official website could not be opened normally, , and later tp official responded that it was hacked.

Next, let’s take a look at the most influential hacking incidents at home and abroad in 2016!

                                                                                                                                                                  Not only suffered the largest data breach of the year, but one of the two largest. In September, Yahoo announced it had discovered a data breach in late 2014 that affected more than 500 million user accounts. The incident resulted in the leak of some user account information, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords, and some encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. Yahoo said it believed a nation-state attack was behind the incident. Just a few months later, in December Yahoo announced a second, larger attack affecting 1 billion user accounts. The second data breach, said to be independent of the first breach that occurred in August 2013, saw an unauthorized third party steal data including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. , data including hashed passwords. Yahoo said some encrypted and unencrypted security questions and answers may also be included. Yahoo said at the time that it had not yet discovered how the attacker gained access to its systems but was working with law enforcement agencies to resolve the matter. Both data breaches can be considered the largest breaches in history. In addition, this period was also the darkest period since the founding of Yahoo. Later, Verizon successfully acquired Yahoo for 4.8 billion. company.

# counter adult dating website is hacked again, causing huge controversy. Previously, the Ashley Madison hack that occurred in July 2015 only exposed the information of 32 million accounts. This attack directly led to the leakage of more than 300 million accounts, email addresses and passwords from the website. In addition, more than 60 million accounts from Cams.com were also affected. Other companies such as Penthouse, Stripshow and iCams were also breached. Therefore, a total of nearly 412 million users were affected by this attack! What does this mean? The "shameful" things you have done on these adult websites in the past 20 years may be exposed, your orientation and your sex partners may be known to the people around you, and all the things you think about yourself are "shady" Things may become known to everyone overnight... It's scary to think about it. 　

The "Shadow Brokers" hacker group breached the NSA

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Hackers have even targeted the National Security Agency of the United States. A mysterious hacker group called "The Shadow Brokers" claims that they have successfully attacked the NSA and obtained NSA's internal information and the attack tool kit used by the "Equation Group".

The Shadow Brokers then shared some of their stolen cyber loot online. At the same time, it was announced that this set of "cyber weapons" used by the US government would be auctioned on the Internet, with a asking price of 1 million Bitcoins (as of around 8:00 on January 6, Beijing time, the price of Bitcoin was 8,592 yuan).

The SWIFT hacking incident broke out and many banks lost huge sums of money

The Bangladesh Bank was hacked, is one of the most successful cyberattackers to date. In February, the account opened by the Central Bank of Bangladesh at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the United States was hacked in early February, and US$81 million was stolen. According to investigations by relevant law enforcement agencies, the stolen money was transferred in batches and finally flowed into the accounts of two casinos in the Philippines and a gambling intermediary. Then it was likely to be turned into a pile of chips and disappeared without a trace. The Bangladesh Bank is not an isolated case. In January 2015, hackers attacked Ecuador’s Southern Bank and used the SWIFT system to transfer US$12 million. At the end of 2015, Vietnam’s Pioneer Commercial Joint Stock Bank was also exposed to an attempted hacker attack.

　Europol accidentally leaked 54 counter-terrorism investigation data

## Although technically speaking, the Europol data breach was not caused by a hacker attack. However, its impact is huge. Data from a counter-terrorism investigation was accidentally leaked due to errors by Europol staff. The data includes 54 files and more than 700 pages of undercover investigative files. The document involves the investigation results of many anti-terrorism incidents such as the Madrid bombings from 2006 to 2008, and also includes anti-terrorism investigations that have never been made public!

　Myspace account information leaked

## In May, many users received reminders that they still held Myspace accounts, as Myspace announced a data breach that would affect 360 million accounts. In a blog post announcing the incident, Myspace said it discovered that email addresses, usernames and password information for accounts created before June 11, 2013, were posted on a hacking forum. Myspace updated its platform in 2013, including improving account security. Myspace blamed the incident on Russian hacker "Peace".

Myspace is not the only social media network to suffer a data breach this year. Tumblr announced that the information of 65 million accounts that was leaked in 2013 has been released. LinkedIn also announced that it had discovered that 117 million email and password combinations were publicly sold online in a 2012 breach. There were reports that Foursquare also suffered a data breach, affecting 22.5 million users, but the company denied the news.

## The United States suffered the largest DDoS attack in history, and the East Coast websites were collectively paralyzed

# In October, a botnet controlled by the malware Mirai launched a DDoS attack on Dyn, a US domain name server management service provider. As a result, many websites were down on the east coast of the United States, such as GitHub, Twitter, PayPal, etc., and users were unable to access these sites through domain names. Supporters of WikiLeaks became suspects in the attack.

900,000 households in Germany were cut off from the Internet and hackers deliberately invaded

## In November, Deutsche Telekom encountered a large-scale network failure. About 900,000 routers out of 20 million fixed network users (about 4.5%) failed, resulting in limited network access in large areas. Deutsche Telekom further confirmed that the problem was caused by the maintenance interface of the routing equipment being exposed to the Internet and that targeted attacks were taking place on the Internet.

The Russian hacker group Fancy Bear is suspected of interfering with the US election

# The cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee is said to have been launched by the Russian state-backed hacker group Fancy Bear. They obtained the email accounts of many senior officials, including that of Hillary Clinton's chief executive, John Podesta.

These data obtained by hackers, including nearly 20,000 emails, were disclosed by WikiLeaks. Many saw this as a major blow to the Clinton team and a huge boost to Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election.

After lengthy debate and analysis, U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, NSA, Defense Intelligence Department and FBI, have reached a consensus that Russia is seeking to exploit cyber The attacks hit the Democratic Party and pushed and helped Trump win the election.

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