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RedDoorz
September 4, 2020
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[ hack, technology ]
In September 2020, the hotel management & booking platform RedDoorz suffered a data breach that exposed over 5.8M user accounts. The breached data included names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
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Phoenix
June 5, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In mid-2021, the "vintage messaging reborn" service Phoenix suffered a data breach that exposed 75k unique email addresses. The breach also exposed IP addresses, usernames and passwords.
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Netlog
November 1, 2012
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2018, the Belgian social networking site Netlog identified a data breach of their systems dating back to November 2012 (PDF). Although the service was discontinued in 2015, the data breach still impacted 49 million subscribers for whom email addresses and plain text passwords were exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
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Fur Affinity
May 17, 2016
In May 2016, the Fur Affinity website for people with an interest in anthropomorphic animal characters (also known as "furries") was hacked. The attack exposed 1.2M email addresses (many accounts had a different "first" and "last" email against them) and hashed passwords.
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FaceUP
January 1, 2013
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In 2013, the Danish social media site FaceUP suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 87k unique email addresses alongside genders, dates of birth, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. When notified of the incident, FaceUP advised they had identified a SQL injection vulnerability at the time and forced password resets on impacted customers.
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Duolingo
January 24, 2023
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[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In August 2023, 2.6M records of data scraped from Duolingo were broadly distributed on a popular hacking forum. Obtained by enumerating a vulnerable API, the data had earlier appeared for sale in January 2023 and contained email addresses, names, the languages being learned, XP (experience points), and other data related to learning progress on Duolingo. Whilst some of the data attributes are intentionally public, the ability to map private email addresses to them presents an ongoing risk to user privacy.
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Bleach Anime Forum
January 1, 2015
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[ leak, technology ]
In 2015, the now defunct independent forum for the Bleach Anime series suffered a data breach that exposed 144k user records. The impacted data included usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
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PropTiger
January 30, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2018, the Indian property website PropTiger suffered a data breach which resulted in a 3.46GB database file being exposed and subsequently shared extensively on a popular hacking forum 2 years later. The exposed data contained both user records and login histories with over 2M unique customer email addresses. Exposed data also included additional personal attributes such as names, dates of birth, genders, IP addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. PropTiger advised they believe the usability of the data is "limited" due to how certain data attributes were generated and stored. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Planet Calypso
July 1, 2019
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In approximately July 2019, the forums for the Planet Calypso game suffered a data breach. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
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NextGenUpdate
April 22, 2014
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[ leak, technology ]
Early in 2014, the video game website NextGenUpdate reportedly suffered a data breach that disclosed almost 1.2 million accounts. Amongst the data breach was usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted and hashed passwords.
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CloudPets
January 1, 2017
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[ leak, ransomware, misconfiguration ]
In January, the maker of teddy bears that record children's voices and sends them to family and friends via the internet CloudPets left their database publicly exposed and it was subsequently downloaded by external parties (the data was also subject to 3 different ransom demands). 583k records were provided to HIBP via a data trader and included email addresses and bcrypt hashes, but the full extent of user data exposed by the system was over 821k records and also included children's names and references to portrait photos and voice recordings.
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Vodafone
November 30, 2013
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[ hack, technology ]
In November 2013, Vodafone in Iceland suffered an attack attributed to the Turkish hacker collective "Maxn3y". The data was consequently publicly exposed and included user names, email addresses, social security numbers, SMS message, server logs and passwords from a variety of different internal sources.
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RaidForums
September 24, 2020
In May 2023, 478k user records from the now defunct hacking forum known as "RaidForums" was posted to another hacking forum. The data dated back to September 2020 and included email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, IP addresses and passwords stored as Argon2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
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OwnedCore
August 1, 2013
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately August 2013, the World of Warcraft exploits forum known as OwnedCore was hacked and more than 880k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
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Muslim Match
June 24, 2016
In June 2016, the Muslim Match dating website had 150k email addresses exposed. The data included private chats and messages between relationship seekers and numerous other personal attributes including passwords hashed with MD5.
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Mastercard Priceless Specials
August 20, 2019
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[ leak, finance ]
In August 2019, the German Mastercard bonus program "Priceless Specials" suffered a data breach. Personal data on almost 90k program members was subsequently extensively circulated online and included names, email and IP addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card data. Following the incident, the program was subsequently suspended.
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Lookiero
March 27, 2024
In August 2024, a data breach from the online styling service Lookiero was posted to a popular hacking forum. Dating back to March 2024, the data included 5M unique email addresses, with many of the records also including name, phone number and physical address. When contacted about the incident, Lookiero advised that they would "look into it and get back to you if necessary". The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
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Lifeboat
January 1, 2016
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
In January 2016, the Minecraft community known as Lifeboat was hacked and more than 7 million accounts leaked. Lifeboat knew of the incident for three months before the breach was made public but elected not to advise customers. The leaked data included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as straight MD5 hashes.
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Filmai.in
January 1, 2020
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2019 or 2020, the Lithuanian movie streaming service Filmai.in suffered a data breach exposing 645k email addresses, usernames and plain text passwords.
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DatPiff
August 25, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In late 2021, email address and plain text password pairs from the rap mixtape website DatPiff appeared for sale on a popular hacking forum. The data allegedly dated back to an earlier breach and in total, contained almost 7.5M email addresses and cracked password pairs. The original data source allegedly contained usernames, security questions and answers and passwords stored as MD5 hashes with a static salt.
