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Daily Quiz
January 13, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, the quiz website Daily Quiz suffered a data breach that exposed over 8 million unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
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AndroidLista
July 28, 2021
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2021, the Android applications and games review site AndroidLista suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 6.6M user records containing email addresses, names, usernames and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes, all of which were subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum. AndroidLista did not respond when contacted about the breach.
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UN Internet Governance Forum
February 20, 2014
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[ hack, leak, government ]
In February 2014, the Internet Governance Forum (formed by the United Nations for policy dialogue on issues of internet governance) was attacked by hacker collective known as Deletesec. Although tasked with "ensuring the security and stability of the Internet", the IGFs website was still breached and resulted in the leak of 3,200 email addresses, names, usernames and cryptographically stored passwords.
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StreamCraft
July 6, 2020
In July 2020, the Russian Minecraft service StreamCraft suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 1.8M records of usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either MD5 or bcrypt hashes.
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Playbook
October 19, 2020
In September 2021, a publicly accessible PostgresSQL database belonging to the Playbook service was identified. Run by VC firm Plug and Play Ventures, the database had been exposed since October 2020 and contained more than 50 thousand unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, job titles and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. It took more than 2 weeks after being notified of the exposed data to properly secure it. It's unknown whether Plug and Play Ventures notified impacted individuals as they ceased responding to queries from the press.
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Online Trade (Онлайн Трейд)
September 19, 2022
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[ leak, retail ]
In September 2022, the Russian e-commerce website Online Trade ( ) suffered a data breach that exposed 3.8M customer records. The data included email and IP addresses, names, phone numbers, dates of birth and MD5 password hashes.
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Kickstarter
February 16, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.
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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".
