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• Insanelyi July 22, 2014 • [ hack, misconfiguration, technology ] In July 2014, the iOS forum Insanelyi was hacked by an attacker known as Kim Jong-Cracks. A popular source of information for users of jailbroken iOS devices running Cydia, the Insanelyi breach disclosed over 104k users' emails addresses, user names and weakly hashed passwords (salted MD5).
• Cit0day November 4, 2020 In November 2020, a collection of more than 23,000 allegedly breached websites known as Cit0day were made available for download on several hacking forums. The data consisted of 226M unique email address alongside password pairs, often represented as both password hashes and the cracked, plain text versions. Independent verification of the data established it contains many legitimate, previously undisclosed breaches. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
• CafePress February 20, 2019 In February 2019, the custom merchandise retailer CafePress suffered a data breach. The exposed data included 23 million unique email addresses with some records also containing names, physical addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
• Tunngle July 1, 2016 In 2016, the now defunct global LAN gaming network Tunngle suffered a data breach that exposed 8.2M unique email addresses. The compromised data also included usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
• Tuned Global March 16, 2016 • [ hack, misconfiguration, technology ] In January 2021, data from a number of breached services including Tuned Global were released to a public hacking forum. The breach appears to date back to 2016 and includes 985k records containing email addresses, names, a small number of physical addresses and phone numbers and passwords stored in plain text.
• SaverSpy September 18, 2018 • [ leak, misconfiguration, technology ] In September 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a massive collection of personal details exposed in an unprotected Mongo DB instance. The data appears to have been used in marketing campaigns (possibly for spam purposes) but had little identifying data about it other than a description of "Yahoo_090618_ SaverSpy". The data set provided to HIBP had almost 2.5M unique email addresses (all of which were from Yahoo!) alongside names, genders and physical addresses.
• MacGeneration January 29, 2022 In January 2022, the French Apple news website MacGeneration suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 100k usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes. After discovering the incident, MacGeneration self-submitted data to HIBP.
• Hopamedia August 30, 2020 • [ leak, misconfiguration, technology ] In 2024, data relating to an unknown service referred to as "Hopamedia" and dating back to 2020 appeared in a publicly exposed database. The data included almost 24M records of email address, name, phone number, the country of the individual and their telecommunications carrier.
• Gawker December 11, 2010 In December 2010, Gawker was attacked by the hacker collective "Gnosis" in retaliation for what was reported to be a feud between Gawker and 4Chan. Information about Gawkers 1.3M users was published along with the data from Gawker's other web presences including Gizmodo and Lifehacker. Due to the prevalence of password reuse, many victims of the breach then had their Twitter accounts compromised to send Acai berry spam.
• Fitmart October 1, 2021 • [ leak, misconfiguration, retail ] In October 2021, data from the German fitness supplies store Fitmart was obtained and later redistributed online. The data included 214k unique email addresses accompanied by plain text passwords, allegedly "dehashed" from the original stored version.
• boAt March 25, 2024 • [ leak, manufacturing ] In March 2024, the Indian audio and wearables brand boAt suffered a data breach that exposed 7.5M customer records. The data included physical and email address, names and phone numbers, all of which were subsequently published to a popular clear web hacking forum.
• Armor Games January 1, 2019 • [ hack, technology ] In January 2019, the game portal website Armor Games suffered a data breach. A total of 10.6 million email addresses were impacted by the breach which also exposed usernames, IP addresses, birthdays of administrator accounts and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
• WildStar July 11, 2015 • [ 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.
• 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.
• WHMCS May 21, 2012 • [ 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• DailyObjects January 1, 2018 • [ 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.
• Boxee March 29, 2014 • [ 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.
• 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.