The year of 2016, which is already in its infancy, was very difficult in terms of online security. A year marked by various types of attacks by hackers. O Less wires brings a summary of some incidents recorded throughout the year.
On 21 in October, a series of attacks DDoS practically broke the internet. The target was Dyn, a provider of DNS services for several sites such as Netflix, PayPal, Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, The New York Times and the Wired magazine website were hacked and users were left without access for several hours. The servers affected by the attack were located in the United States, but the repercussions were global, as Dyn provided services to several customers around the world.
A Yahoo it has confirmed that private information has been stolen from more than 1 billion accounts and that it has not been able to identify the person responsible for the invasion. The world has 7 billion inhabitants and hackers have invaded more than 1 billion.
During the 2016 year, the invasion of more than 100 million users' passwords was discovered. LinkedIn that have been hacked since 2012. LinkedIn at the time said it was working to invalidate those passwords after becoming aware of an additional set of data that has just been released and that it claimed to be combinations of email and encrypted passwords more than 100 million of its users.
Over 360 million accounts MySpace they were also targets of invasion by the malefactors, where a package that had e-mails and passwords of users registered on the social network, had been made available in the internet underworld during the month of May 2016.
Already in August was the social network of exchange of messages- Telegram hacked and the data of 15 million users in Iran was exposed. Hackers compromised more than a dozen accounts on Telegram and identified the number of phones of more than 15 million Iranian users.
It was a very complicated year for online security, large organizations with sophisticated security systems were the target of large-scale attacks. All digital devices, if not protected, become one of the easiest data breach targets for a hacker.
