AUGUST:

One of the biggest players in U.S. stock market, Knight Capital Group faced an electronic glitch that resulted in price shifts in over dozen of stocks. The company has estimated a loss of around $440 million.

One of world’s largest oil networks, Saudi Aramco affected a security breach from a virus which intended to delete all the files within its system. Administrators within the oil conserver had to shut down the whole system.

Hacktivist group Anonymous again grabbed the headlines this time in protest against the arrest of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange. The group disrupted a number of British government websites and even attacked the WikiLeaks site itself which resulted in a temporary shutdown for more than a week.  A group called AntiLeaks claimed the attack.

Another news that grabbed the headlines was Google getting fined for violating privacy laws by tracking users from Apple’s Safari browser. Google was fined for $22.5 million as it placed tracking cookies on Apple’s Safari browser and tracked the user search lists.

Mat Honan, wired journalist suffered a huge security breach over his iCloud account at Apple. The report caused a massive havoc across the cloud platform, especially across iCloud.

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