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Factual
March 22, 2017
In March 2017, a file containing 8M rows of data allegedly sourced from data aggregator Factual was compiled and later exchanged on the premise it was a "breach". The data contained 2.5M unique email addresses alongside business names, addresses and phone numbers. After consultation with Factual, they advised the data was "publicly available information about businesses and other points of interest that Factual makes available on its website and to customers".
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D3Scene
January 1, 2016
In January 2016, the gaming website D3Scene, suffered a data breach. The compromised vBulletin forum exposed 569k million email addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Collection #1
January 7, 2019
In January 2019, a large collection of credential stuffing lists (combinations of email addresses and passwords used to hijack accounts on other services) was discovered being distributed on a popular hacking forum. The data contained almost 2.7 billion records including 773 million unique email addresses alongside passwords those addresses had used on other breached services. Full details on the incident and how to search the breached passwords are provided in the blog post The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach.
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bigbasket
October 14, 2020
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[ leak, retail ]
In October 2020, the Indian grocery platform bigbasket suffered a data breach that exposed over 20 million customer records. The data was originally sold before being leaked publicly in April the following year and included email, IP and physical addresses, names, phones numbers, dates of birth passwords stored as Django(SHA-1) hashes.
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WeLeakInfo
March 8, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2021, the Stripe account of the now-defunct WeLeakInfo service was taken over by "pompompurin" after acquiring an expired domain name with an email address used to manage the account. Access to Stripe then exposed almost 12k unique email addresses from customers who'd made credit card payments in order to obtain breached data hosted by WeLeakInfo. The data was subsequently leaked publicly and also included names, payment histories, IP addresses, billing addresses, partial credit card data and the organisation making the purchase.
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Pampling
January 4, 2020
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[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
In January 2020, the online clothing retailer Pampling suffered a data breach that exposed 383k unique customer email addresses. The data was later shared on a popular hacking forum and also included names, usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
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Nihonomaru
December 1, 2015
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[ hack ]
In late 2015, the anime community known as Nihonomaru had their vBulletin forum hacked and 1.7 million accounts exposed. The compromised data included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted hashes of passwords.
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MCBans
October 27, 2016
In October 2016, the Minecraft banning service known as MCBans suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 120k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and password hashes of unknown format. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
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French Citizens
September 25, 2024
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[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In September 2024, over 90M rows of data on French Citizens was found left exposed in a publicly facing database. Compiled from various data breaches, the corpus contained 28M unique email addresses with the various source breaches each exposing different fields including name, physical and IP address, phone number and partial credit card data including payment type and last 4 digits.
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Benchmark
November 1, 2019
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2019, the Serbian technology news website Benchmark suffered a breach of its forum that exposed 93k customer records. The breach exposed IP and email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. A forum administrator subsequently advised that the breach was due to the forum previously running on an outdated vBulletin instance. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "ZAN @ BF".
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Zooville
September 27, 2019
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2019, the zoophilia and bestiality forum Zooville suffered a data breach. The usernames and email addresses of 71k members were accessed via an unpatched vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software then subsequently distributed online. A second data set was later provided to HIBP which contained a complete vBulletin database dump including IP addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The site administrator advised that following the breach, all data had been deleted from the forum and a new one had been stood up on the XenForo platform. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "burger vault".
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Xbox-Scene
February 1, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately February 2015, the Xbox forum known as Xbox-Scene was hacked and more than 432k accounts were exposed. The IP.Board forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
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V-Tight Gel
February 13, 2016
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[ leak, healthcare ]
In approximately February 2016, data surfaced which was allegedly obtained from V-Tight Gel (vaginal tightening gel). Whilst the data set was titled V-Tight, within there were 50 other (predominantly wellness-related) domain names, most owned by the same entity. Multiple HIBP subscribers confirmed that although they couldn't recall providing data specifically to V-Tight, their personal information including name, phone and physical address was accurate. V-Tight Gel did not reply to multiple requests for comment.
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Universarium
November 1, 2019
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[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In approximately November 2019, the Russian "Remote preparatory faculty for IT specialties" Universarium suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 565k email addresses and passwords in plain text. Universarium did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact over a period of many weeks. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Gemini
December 13, 2022
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[ leak, phishing, finance ]
In late 2022, data allegedly taken from the Gemini crypto exchange was posted to a public hacking forum. The data consisted of email addresses and partial phone numbers, which Gemini later attributed to an incident at a third-party vendor (the vendor was not named). The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "ZAN @ BF".
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Club Penguin Rewritten (July 2019)
July 27, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In July 2019, the children's gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten (CPRewritten) suffered a data breach (note: CPRewritten is an independent recreation of Disney's Club Penguin game). In addition to an earlier data breach that impacted 1.7 million accounts, the subsequent breach exposed 4 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
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Zurich
January 8, 2023
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[ leak, finance ]
In January 2023, the Japanese arm of Zurich insurance suffered a data breach that exposed 2.6M customer records with over 756k unique email addresses. The data was subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum and also included names, genders, dates of birth and details of insured vehicles. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "IntelBroker".
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Wiener Büchereien
June 10, 2019
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[ hack, leak, government ]
In June 2019, the library of Vienna (Wiener Bchereien) suffered a data breach. The compromised data included 224k unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. The breached data was subsequently posted to Twitter by the alleged perpetrator of the breach.
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WedMeGood
January 6, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, the Indian wedding planning platform WedMeGood suffered a data breach that exposed 1.3 million customers. The breach exposed 41.5GB of data including email and physical addresses, names, genders, phone numbers and password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Not Acxiom
June 21, 2020
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2020, a corpus of data containing almost a quarter of a billion records spanning over 400 different fields was misattributed to database marketing company Acxiom and subsequently circulated within the hacking community. On review, Acxiom concluded that "the claims are indeed false and that the data, which has been readily available across multiple environments, does not come from Acxiom and is in no way the subject of an Acxiom breach". The data contained almost 52M unique email addresses.
