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Operation Endgame 2.0
June 23, 2025
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
In May 2025, a coalition of law enforcement agencies took down the criminal infrastructure behind the malware used to launch ransomware attacks in a new phase of "Operation Endgame". This followed the first Operation Endgame exercise a year earlier, with the latest action resulting in 15.3M victim email addresses being provided to HIBP by law enforcement. A further 43.8M victim passwords were also provided for HIBP's Pwned Passwords service.
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ColoCrossing
May 24, 2025
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2025, hosting provider ColoCrossing identified a data breach that impacted customers of their ColoCloud virtual server product. ColoCrossing advised the incident was isolated to their cloud/VPS platform and stemmed from a single sign-on vulnerability. 7k email addresses were exposed in the incident along with names and MD5-Crypt password hashes.
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Operation Endgame 2.0
May 23, 2025
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
In May 2025, a coalition of law enforcement agencies took down the criminal infrastructure behind the malware used to launch ransomware attacks in a new phase of "Operation Endgame". This followed the first Operation Endgame exercise a year earlier, with the latest action resulting in 15.3M victim email addresses being provided to HIBP by law enforcement. A further 43.8M victim passwords were also provided for HIBP's Pwned Passwords service.
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Samsung Germany Customer Tickets
March 30, 2025
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[ leak, malware, technology ]
In March 2025, data from Samsung Germany was compromised in a data breach of their logistics provider, Spectos. Allegedly due to credentials being obtained by malware running on a Spectos employee's machine, the breach included 216k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, items purchased from Samsung Germany and related support tickets and shipping tracking numbers.
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German Doner Kebab
March 27, 2025
In March 2025, data allegedly sourced from German Doner Kebab was published on a popular hacking forum. The data included 162k unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and physical addresses. German Doner Kebab subsequently sent a disclosure notice to impacted individuals.
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TehetségKapu
March 26, 2025
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[ leak, education ]
In March 2025, almost 55k records were breached from the Hungarian education office website TehetsgKapu. The data was subsequently published to a popular hacking forum and included email addresses, names and usernames.
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Troy Hunt's Mailchimp List
March 25, 2025
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[ hack, phishing, technology ]
In March 2025, a phishing attack successfully gained access to Troy Hunt's Mailchimp account and automatically exported a list of people who had subscribed to the newsletter for his personal blog. The exported list contained 16k email addresses and other data automatically collected by Mailchimp including IP address and a derived latitude, longitude and time zone.
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Orange Romania
February 24, 2025
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[ financial, hack, leak ]
In February 2025, the Romanian arm of telecommunications company Orange suffered a data breach which was subsequently published to a popular hacking forum. The data included 556k email addresses (of which hundreds of thousands were in the form of [phone number]@as1.romtelecom.net), phone numbers, subscription details, partial credit card data (type, last 4 digits, expiration date and issuing bank). The breach also exposed an extensive number of internal documents.
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ALIEN TXTBASE Stealer Logs
February 15, 2025
In February 2025, 23 billion rows of stealer logs were obtained from a Telegram channel known as ALIEN TXTBASE. The data contained 284M unique email addresses alongside the websites they were entered into and the passwords used. This data is now searchable in HIBP by both email domain and the domain of the target website.
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Cocospy
February 14, 2025
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
In February 2025, the spyware service Cocospy suffered a data breach along with sibling spyware service, Spyic. The Cocospy breach alone exposed almost 1.8M customer email addresses which were provided to HIBP, and reportedly also enabled unauthorised access to captured messages, photos, call logs, and more. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "zathienaephi@proton.me".
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Spyic
February 14, 2025
In February 2025, the spyware service Spyic suffered a data breach along with sibling spyware service, Cocospy. The Spyic breach alone exposed almost 876k customer email addresses which were provided to HIBP, and reportedly also enabled unauthorised access to captured messages, photos, call logs, and more. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "zathienaephi@proton.me".
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Lexipol
February 11, 2025
In February 2025, the public safety policy management systems company Lexipol suffered a data breach. Attributed to the self-proclaimed "Puppygirl Hacker Polycule", the breach exposed an extensive number of documents and user records which were subsequently published publicly. The breach included over 670k unique email addresses in the user records, along with names, phone numbers, system-generated usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or SHA-256 hashes.
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Thermomix Recipe World Forum
January 30, 2025
In January 2025, the Rezeptwelt (German for "recipe world") forum for Thermomix owners suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 3.1M registered users' details including names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and bios (usually cooking related). The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "ayame@xmpp.jp".
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Doxbin Scrape
January 24, 2025
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2025, 435k email addresses were scraped from the "doxing" service Doxbin. Posts to the service are usually intended to disclose the personal information of non-consensually third parties. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
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Frame & Optic
January 16, 2025
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[ leak, retail ]
In January 2025, the eyewear seller Frame & Optic suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 16k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and geolocation data including country, state and postcode. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
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Stealer Logs, Jan 2025
January 15, 2025
In January 2025, stealer logs with 71M email addresses were added to HIBP. Consisting of email address, password and the website the credentials were entered against, this breach marks the launch of a new HIBP feature enabling the retrieval of the specific websites the logs were collected against. The incident also resulted in 106M more passwords being added to the Pwned Passwords service.
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Stealer Logs, Jan 2025
January 13, 2025
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[ leak, malware ]
In January 2025, stealer logs with 71M email addresses were added to HIBP. Consisting of email address, password and the website the credentials were entered against, this breach marks the launch of a new HIBP feature enabling the retrieval of the specific websites the logs were collected against. The incident also resulted in 106M more passwords being added to the Pwned Passwords service.
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LandAirSea
January 12, 2025
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[ hack, technology ]
In January 2025, the GPS tracking service LandAirSea suffered a data breach that exposed 337k unique customer email addresses alongside names, usernames and password hashes. The breach also exposed partial credit card data (card type, last 4 digits and expiration), and GPS device identifiers and locations. LandAirSea is aware of the breach and has remediated the underlying vulnerability. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "zathienaephi@proton.me".
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Scholastic
January 8, 2025
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[ hack, education ]
In January 2025, a data breach of the publishing company Scholastic surfaced. The breach contained 4.2M unique email addresses with many of the records also including name, phone number and physical address.
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