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First part here: 1-15 March 2013 Cyber Attacks Timeline

March is gone and hence it is time to analyze the events that characterized the past month.

Two events in particular gained the first pages of the magazines: the wiper malware in Korea and the DDoS attack against Spamhaus that, maybe exaggerating, has been defined the “biggest attack in history”.

But these were not the only noticeable attacks in this second part of the month: the Operation Ababil of the Izz ad-din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters against U.S. banks achieved a new phase, constantly disrupting the connectivity of several high profile financial targets, including Chase, USBank, etc.; Telenor admitted to have been hacked by high-tech spies emptying the content of executives’ personal computers, and also the Anonymous claimed to have breached the Mossad, despite there are many doubts about this last attack.

Other important events include a breach against MTV Taiwan (600,000 accounts), McDonald’s (200,000 accounts), the Turkish Ministry Of Economy (96,000 accounts), and Renault Colombia (31,000 accounts leaked).

If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012 and now 2013 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.

Also, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts).

[1] http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sidney-blumenthal-email-hack-687341

[2] http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1533629707/SSU-data-breach-affects-25-000

[3] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Turkey-s-Ministry-of-Economy-and-Central-Finance-and-Contracts-Unit-Hacked-338107.shtml

[4] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Turkey-s-Ministry-of-Economy-and-Central-Finance-and-Contracts-Unit-Hacked-338107.shtml

[5] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Philippines-National-Telecommunications-Commission-Defaced-by-Anonymous-Hackers-338062.shtml

[6] http://www.newsinenglish.no/2013/03/17/telenor-reports-industrial-espionage/

[7] http://hackread.com/human-rights-watch-official-website-twitter-accounts-hacked-by-syrian-electronic-army/

[8] http://hackread.com/privacy-corps-website-breached-1847-client-accounts-with-clear-text-passwords-leaked-by-syrian-cyber-eagles/

[9] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636

[10] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/usbankcom-tango-down.html

[11] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/bb-site-outages-linked-to-ddos.html

[12] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-chase-bank-has-targeted-of-attacks.html

[13] http://www.spider.io/blog/2013/03/chameleon-botnet/

[14] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21855051

[15] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-attacks-of-qassam-group-have.html

[16] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-citibank-has-gotten-out-of-reach.html

[17] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/hackers-that-took-over-xbox-live-accounts-may-be-behind-ddos-attack-on-ars/

[18] http://www.turkishajan.com/turkishajan-govde-gosterileri/renault-colombia-hacked-179731.html#post273944

[19] http://news.yahoo.com/awl-network-under-attack-212611645.html

[20] http://www.crysys.hu/teamspy/teamspy.pdf

[21] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-zions-bank-and-bb-have-gotten-out.html

[22] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21879230

[23] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Website-and-Mobile-Banking-Service-of-TD-Bank-Disrupted-by-DDOS-Attack-339532.shtml

[24] http://news.softpedia.com/news/AOL-Account-of-Billionaire-John-Doerr-Hacked-by-Guccifer-339436.shtml

[25] http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/10306227.School_website_hacked_and_redirected_to_porn_site/

[26] http://datalossdb.org/incidents/9782-malware-may-have-resulted-in-access-to-employee-customer-and-credit-applicants-information

[27] http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/23/world/africa/south-africa-pistorius

[28] http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2013/03/24/did-anonymous-hack-israels-mossad-spy-agency/

[29] http://news.softpedia.com/news/OpIranMenace-Anonymous-Hackers-Leak-Data-from-Iranian-Organizations-339834.shtml

[30] http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208194186/Android_Trojan_Found_in_Targeted_Attack

[31] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Two-Journalism-Sites-of-the-University-of-Texas-at-Austin-Hit-by-Massive-Cyberattack-340277.shtml

[32] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Shows-Support-for-Rohingya-People-Myanmar-Gov-Sites-Attacked-340069.shtml

[33] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-wells-fargo-has-gotten-out-of-reach.html

[34] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-citizens-bank-has-targeted-of-next.html

[35] http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/03/28/official-mcdonalds-austria-taiwan-korea-hacked-over-200k-credentials-leaked/

[36] http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/03/26/26/0301000000AEN20130326010200315F.HTML

[37] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-suntrust-bank-and-ameriprise.html

[38] http://hackread.com/avg-south-africa-hacked-10000-product-keys-leaked-by-over-x/

[39] http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-bank-of-america-and-american.html

[40] http://hackread.com/bangladeshi-anti-terrorism-rapid-action-battalion-breached-database-leaked-by-phr0zenmyst/

[41] http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/03/30/tango-down-more-attacks-on-dprk-websites/

[42] http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/03/31/official-mtv-taiwan-hacked-607286-account-credentials-leaked/

[43] http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/01/first-national-bank-texas-hacked-social-security-details-leaked-for-opblacksummer/

[44] http://hackread.com/massive-cyber-attack-on-election-commission-of-pakistan-servers-by-asian-russian-hackers/

[45] http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/01/united-services-automobile-association-hacked-financial-credentials-leaked-for-opblacksummer/