New York Times Malvertising Cyber Attack

• Malvertising

Australia's largest classified ads website, Gumtree, was hit with a malvertising attack. The malware was hidden in an advertisement for a local law firm, who was not aware that their ad was infected.

• Data Breaches

In February 2015, PSX-Scene, a Sony Playstation forum was hacked and more than 340,000 accounts were stolen including information the user's email addresses, IP addresses, passwords and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In January 2015, Lizard Squad, which is a hacker collective, was hacked themselves and more than 14,241user names, email addresses and passwords were stolen and published.

• Data Breaches

In June 2014, a Manga trading website called Mangatraders.com was hacked. Manga is a Japanese comic. In total 855,000 email addresses and passwords from user accounts were stolen and published on the Internet.

• Data Breaches

In August 2014, the Pokemon Creed website was hacked and more than 116,000 accounts were stolen including information about the user's email addresses, genders, IP addresses, passwords and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In June 2014, Sumo Torrent, a torrent website, was hacked and approximately 285,000 user accounts were stolen including information on the user's email addresses, IP addresses, passwords and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In 2014, a video game website called NextGenUpdate was breached and approximately 1.2 million user accounts were stolen including email addresses, IP addresses, passwords and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In March 2014, Quantum Booter, a service that provides distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to paying customers, was hacked and 48,600 member accounts were stolen including information pertaining to email addresses, IP addresses, passwords, private messages and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In February 2014, the Muslim Directory which is a guide to Muslim services and business in the UK, was hacked and tens of thousands of user information was stolen and published publicly including age groups, email addresses, employers, home addresses, names, passwords and phone numbers.

• Data Breaches

In January 2014, Verified, a community of Eastern Europeans cyber criminals, was hacked and 17,000 user details were published from their forum including email addresses, historical passwords, IP addresses, passwords, private messages and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In 2014, ThisHabbo Forum, a fan site for Habbo.com, which was a Finnish social networking website, was hacked and approximately 28,000 email addresses, IP addresses, passwords and usernames were stolen.

• Data Breaches

In September 2013, a forum for Win7Vista Windows was hacked and more than 200,000 users' data was dumped online including information about the users' email addresses, Instant Messenger IDs, IP addresses, names, passwords, private messages and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In 2013, the Lounge Board, an open forum, was hacked and 45,000 accounts were stolen and published publicly including email addresses, IP addresses, names, passwords, private messages and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In August 2013, the online video game Lord of the Rings Online was breached and more than 1.1 million player accounts were stolen and traded on underground forums. The hackers stole email addresses, dates of birth, IP addresses, passwords and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In August 2013, a World of Warcraft forum called OwnedCore was hacked and more than 880,000 accounts were stolen including email addresses, IP addresses, passwords and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In December 2015, Nexus Mods, a game modification website, was hacked and almost 6 million user accounts were stolen and traded including email addresses passwords and usernames.

• Data Breaches

In December 2011, Stratfor, a global intelligence company, was hacked and hundreds of gigs of data including credit card information, email addresses, home addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers and usernames were stolen from more than 860,000 user accounts.

• Data Breaches

In May 2010, Neteller, an e-wallet service, was breached and more than 3.6 million customer accounts were stolen including account balances, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, home addresses, IP addresses, names, phone numbers and security questions and answers.