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Gravatar
October 3, 2020
In October 2020, a security researcher published a technique for scraping large volumes of data from Gravatar, the service for providing globally unique avatars . 167 million names, usernames and MD5 hashes of email addresses used to reference users' avatars were subsequently scraped and distributed within the hacking community. 114 million of the MD5 hashes were cracked and distributed alongside the source hash, thus disclosing the original email address and accompanying data. Following the impacted email addresses being searchable in HIBP, Gravatar release an FAQ detailing the incident.
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Drizly
July 2, 2020
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[ hack, retail ]
In approximately July 2020, the US-based online alcohol delivery service Drizly suffered a data breach. The data was sold online before being extensively redistributed and contained 2.5 million unique email addresses alongside names, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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DriveSure
December 19, 2020
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[ hack, automotive ]
In December 2020, the car dealership service provider DriveSure suffered a data breach. The incident resulted in 26GB of data being downloaded and later shared on a hacking forum. Impacted personal information included 3.6 million unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. Vehicle data was also exposed and included makes, models, VIN numbers and odometer readings. A small number of passwords stored as bcrypt hashes were also included in the data set.
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BTC-Alpha
November 2, 2021
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[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
In November 2021, the crypto exchange platform BTC-Alpha suffered a ransomware attack data breach after which customer data was publicly dumped. The impacted data included 362k email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
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xat
November 4, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
In November 2015, the online chatroom known as "xat" was hacked and 6 million user accounts were exposed. Used as a chat engine on websites, the leaked data included usernames, email and IP addresses along with hashed passwords.
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Wishbone (2016)
August 7, 2016
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[ hack, social, technology ]
In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults.
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Tokopedia
April 17, 2020
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[ leak, retail ]
In April 2020, Indonesia's largest online store Tokopedia suffered a data breach. The incident resulted in 15M rows of data being posted to a popular hacking forum. An additional 76M rows were later provided to HIBP in July 2020. In total, the data included over 71M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, birth dates and passwords stored as SHA2-384 hashes.
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The Candid Board
September 3, 2015
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[ hack, leak ]
In September 2015, the non-consensual voyeurism site "The Candid Board" suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 178k accounts along with email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted passwords hashed with MD5.
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Sony
June 2, 2011
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In 2011, Sony suffered breach after breach after breach — it was a very bad year for them. The breaches spanned various areas of the business ranging from the PlayStation network all the way through to the motion picture arm, Sony Pictures. A SQL Injection vulnerability in sonypictures.com lead to tens of thousands of accounts across multiple systems being exposed complete with plain text passwords.
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Programming Forums
December 1, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
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Piping Rock
April 24, 2024
In April 2024, 2.1M email addresses from the online health products store Piping Rock were publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The data also included names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The account posting the data had previously posted multiple other data breaches which all appear to have been obtained from the Shopify service used by the respective websites.
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Nitro
September 28, 2020
In September 2020, the Nitro PDF service suffered a massive data breach which exposed over 70 million unique email addresses. The breach also exposed names, bcrypt password hashes and the titles of converted documents. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Lifebear
February 28, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In early 2019, the Japanese schedule app Lifebear appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace amongst a raft of other hacked websites. The breach exposed almost 3.7M unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "nano@databases.pw".
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Insanelyi
July 22, 2014
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[ 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).
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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.
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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".
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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.
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Tuned Global
March 16, 2016
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[ 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.
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SaverSpy
September 18, 2018
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[ 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.
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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.
