Sources: Business Insider
The University of California, Berkeley alerts 80,000 people of a cyber-attack on a system that stores Social Security and bank account numbers. There is no evidence the hacker(s) took any personal information. 2016-02-26
Swede Alex Yucel pleads guilty in the United States to distributing Blackshades software that was used to hack into 500,000 computers worldwide. 2015-02-18
Former LulzSec hacker Cody Andrew Kretsinger is sentenced to a year in jail for a 2011 cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. 2013-04-20
Hackers hack the popular note-taking application Evernote. The website says that the hackers gained access to user passwords, e-mails, and usernames. 2013-03-2
"The New York Times" publishes allegations that a Chinese People's Liberation Army unit called PLA Unit 61398 may be the source of hacking attacks on the West. 2013-02-19
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests suspected members of the computer hacking groups LulzSec and Anonymous in the US cities of Phoenix, Arizona and San Francisco. 2011-09-22
An 18 year old man in the Shetland Islands of Scotland is arrested on suspicion of launching multiple distributed denial of service attacks in association with LulzSec and Anonymous. 2011-07-27
Hacker group LulzSec releases material belonging to the Department of Public Safety in the US state of Arizona in response to immigration law SB 1070. 2011-06-23
Web sites associated with the Government of Malaysia are hacked according to a deadline set by the Anonymous group. 2011-06-16
Computer security company McAfee says hackers based in the People's Republic of China have targeted computer networks of global oil companies and individuals in Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Greece, and the United States, to steal information starting in 2009. 2011-02-11