Happy New Infosec Year! Have you had a wonderful start of this 2017? I hope so… You can now leave the old year behind, but not completely, at least not without having a look at the second timeline of December covering the main cyber attacks occurred between the 16th and 31th (Part I here).
An unexpected tail for this year, with a number of attacks noticeably higher than the previous months. The most remarkable breaches of this month include Lynda.com (9.5 million users notified) and PayAsUGym (300,000 email addresses compromised).
Other important events include the return of the OurMine collective, who hijacked other high-profile Twitter accounts (Netflix, Marvel, NFL, Sony Music and Nat Geo Photography), and the #OpSingleGateway carried on by the Anonymous against the Thai Government.