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WildStar
July 11, 2015
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[ leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the IP.Board forum for the gaming website WildStar suffered a data breach that exposed over 738k forum members' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and passwords.
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WIIU ISO
September 25, 2015
In September 2015, the Nintendo Wii U forum known as WIIU ISO was hacked and 458k accounts were exposed. Along with email and IP addresses, the vBulletin forum also exposed salted MD5 password hashes.
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WHMCS
May 21, 2012
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2012, the web hosting, billing and automation company WHMCS suffered a data breach that exposed 134k email addresses. The breach included extensive information about customers and payment histories including partial credit card numbers.
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Warmane
December 1, 2016
In approximately December 2016, the online service for World of Warcraft private servers Warmane suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 1.1M accounts including usernames, email addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes. The data was subsequently extensively circulated online and was later provided to HIBP by whitehat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
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Snapchat
January 1, 2014
In January 2014 just one week after Gibson Security detailed vulnerabilities in the service, Snapchat had 4.6 million usernames and phone number exposed. The attack involved brute force enumeration of a large number of phone numbers against the Snapchat API in what appears to be a response to Snapchat's assertion that such an attack was "theoretical". Consequently, the breach enabled individual usernames (which are often used across other services) to be resolved to phone numbers which users usually wish to keep private.
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DailyObjects
January 1, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In approximately January 2018, a collection of more than 464k customer records from the Indian online retailer DailyObjects were leaked online. The data included names, physical and email addresses, phone numbers and "pincodes" stored in plain text. After multiple attempts to contact them, DailyObjects responded and received a copy of the data for verification, however failed to respond to multiple contact attempts following that.
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Boxee
March 29, 2014
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.
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Unreal Engine
August 11, 2016
In August 2016, the Unreal Engine Forum suffered a data breach, allegedly due to a SQL injection vulnerability in vBulletin. The attack resulted in the exposure of 530k accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
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Shadi.com
July 9, 2016
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2016, the Muslim dating site Shadi.com suffered a data breach that exposed over 2M members' email addresses. The breach also exposed passwords stored as MD5 hashes alongside their plain text equivalents. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "fall1984@protonmail.com".
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IIMJobs
December 31, 2018
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[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In December 2018, the Indian job portal IIMJobs suffered a data breach that exposed 4.1 million unique email addresses. The data also included names, phone numbers, geographic locations, dates of birth, job titles, job applications and cover letters plus passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Comcast
November 8, 2015
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, the US internet and cable TV provider Comcast suffered a data breach that exposed 590k customer email addresses and plain text passwords. A further 27k accounts appeared with home addresses with the entire data set being sold on underground forums.
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BitView
December 14, 2024
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[ insider, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2024, the video sharing Community BitView suffered a data breach that exposed 63k customer records. Attributed to a backup taken by a previous administrator earlier in the year, the breach exposed email and IP addresses, bcrypt password hashes, usernames, bios, private messages, video comments and for some records, gender, date of birth and country of location.
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Army Force Online
May 18, 2016
In May 2016, the online gaming site Army Force Online suffered a data breach that exposed 1.5M accounts. The breached data was found being regularly traded online and included usernames, email and IP addresses and MD5 passwords.
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WPSandbox
November 4, 2018
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[ leak, phishing, technology ]
In November 2018, the WordPress sandboxing service that allows people to create temporary websites WP Sandbox discovered their service was being used to host a phishing site attempting to collect Microsoft OneDrive accounts. After identifying the malicious site, WP Sandbox took it offline, contacted the 858 people who provided information to it then self-submitted their addresses to HIBP. The phishing page requested both email addresses and passwords.
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Ubook
July 28, 2024
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2024, 700k unique email addresses from the audiobook platform Ubook were posted to a popular hacking forum. Allegedly scraped from the service, the data appears to be sourced from the Ubook Exchange (UBX) and also includes names, genders, dates of birth and links to profile photos.
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Torrent Invites
December 12, 2013
In December 2013, the torrent site Torrent Invites was hacked and over 352k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum contained usernames, email and IP addresses, birth dates and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
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Sphero
September 9, 2023
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[ leak, education ]
In September 2023, over 1M rows of data from the educational robots company Sphero was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 832k unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, dates of birth and geographic locations.
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ixigo
January 3, 2019
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2019, the travel and hotel booking site ixigo suffered a data breach. The data appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace the following month and included over 17M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, phone numbers, connections to Facebook profiles and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
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Bukalapak
October 23, 2017
In March 2019, the Indonesian e-commerce website Bukalapak discovered a data breach of the organisation's backups dating back to October 2017. The incident exposed approximately 13 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, names and passwords stored as bcrypt and salted SHA-512 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "Maxime Thalet".
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BigMoneyJobs
April 3, 2014
In April 2014, the job site bigmoneyjobs.com was hacked by an attacker known as "ProbablyOnion". The attack resulted in the exposure of over 36,000 user accounts including email addresses, usernames and passwords which were stored in plain text. The attack was allegedly mounted by exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability.
