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uTorrent
January 14, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In early 2016, the forum for the uTorrent BitTorrent client suffered a data breach which came to light later in the year. The database from the IP.Board based forum contained 395k accounts including usernames, email addresses and MD5 password hashes without a salt.
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Staminus
March 11, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
In March 2016, the DDoS protection service Staminus was "massively hacked" resulting in an outage of more than 20 hours and the disclosure of customer credentials (with unsalted MD5 hashes), support tickets, credit card numbers and other sensitive data. 27k unique email addresses were found in the data which was subsequently released to the public. Staminus is no longer in operation.
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Short Édition
June 26, 2021
In June 2021, the French publishing house of short literature Short dition suffered a data breach that exposed 505k records. Impacted data included email and physical addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as either salted SHA-1 or salted SHA-512 hashes. Short dition self-submitted the impacted data to HIBP.
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LBB
February 14, 2019
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In August 2022, customer data of the Indian shopping site "LBB" (Little Black Book) was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained over 3M records with 39k unique email addresses alongside IP and physical addresses, names and device information with the most recent data dating back to early 2019. LBB advised they believe the data was exposed by a third party service and whilst it contained information they retain on their customers, it had also been enriched with additional data attributes.
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Go Games
October 24, 2015
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[ leak, technology ]
In approximately October 2015, the manga website Go Games suffered a data breach. The exposed data included 3.4M customer records including email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Go Games did not respond when contacted about the incident. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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ai.type
December 5, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2017, the virtual keyboard application ai.type was found to have left a huge amount of data publicly facing in an unsecured MongoDB instance. Discovered by researchers at The Kromtech Security Center, the 577GB data set included extensive personal information including over 20 million unique email addresses, social media profiles and address book contacts. The email addresses alone were provided to HIBP to enable impacted users to assess their exposure.
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Mindjolt
March 18, 2019
In March 2019, the online gaming website MindJolt suffered a data breach that exposed 28M unique email addresses. Also impacted were names and dates of birth, but no passwords. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
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Lolzteam
May 13, 2018
In May 2018, the Russian hacking forum Lolzteam suffered a data breach that exposed 400k members. The impacted data included usernames and email addresses which were later redistributed via another hacking forum. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "ZAN @ BF".
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GameTuts
March 1, 2015
Likely in early 2015, the video game website GameTuts suffered a data breach and over 2 million user accounts were exposed. The site later shut down in July 2016 but was identified as having been hosted on a vBulletin forum. The exposed data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 hashes.
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Eskimi
September 25, 2020
In late 2020, the AdTech platform Eskimi suffered a data breach that exposed 26M records with 1.2M unique email addresses. The data included usernames, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
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Dodonew.com
December 1, 2011
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[ leak ]
In late 2011, data was allegedly obtained from the Chinese website known as Dodonew.com and contained 8.7M accounts. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains email addresses and user names. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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Zynga
September 1, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In September 2019, game developer Zynga (the creator of Words with Friends) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 173M unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Stronghold Kingdoms
July 4, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2018, the massive multiplayer online game Stronghold Kingdoms suffered a data breach. Almost 5.2 million accounts were impacted by the incident which exposed emails addresses, usernames 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".
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SpyFone
August 16, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2018, the spyware company SpyFone left terabytes of data publicly exposed. Collected surreptitiously whilst the targets were using their devices, the data included photos, audio recordings, text messages and browsing history which were then exposed via a number of misconfigurations within SpyFone's systems. The data belonged the thousands of SpyFone customers and included 44k unique email addresses, many likely belonging to people the targeted phones had contact with.
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MySpace
July 1, 2008
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2008, MySpace suffered a data breach that exposed almost 360 million accounts. In May 2016 the data was offered up for sale on the "Real Deal" dark market website and included email addresses, usernames and SHA1 hashes of the first 10 characters of the password converted to lowercase and stored without a salt. The exact breach date is unknown, but analysis of the data suggests it was 8 years before being made public.
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Glofox
March 27, 2020
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2020, the Irish gym management software company Glofox suffered a data breach which exposed 2.3M membership records. The data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
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Ducks Unlimited
January 29, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In mid-2021, Risk Based Security reported on a database sourced from Ducks Unlimited being traded online. The data dated back to January 2021 and contained 1.3M unique email addresses across both a membership list and a list of website users. Impacted data included names, phones numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
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Zoosk (2020)
January 12, 2020
In January 2020, the online dating service Zoosk suffered a data breach which was subsequently shared extensively across online hacking communities. The breach contained 24 million unique email addresses alongside extensive personal information including genders, sexualities, dates of birth, physical attributes such as height and weight, religions, ethnicities and political views. The breach also allegedly exposed MD5 password hashes, although the data circulating in hacking circles had this field nulled out. The breach was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw.
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StoryBird
August 7, 2015
In August 2015, the storytelling service StoryBird suffered a data breach exposing 4 million records with 1 million unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, usernames and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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StockX
July 26, 2019
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In July 2019, the fashion and sneaker trading platform StockX suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold via a dark webmarketplace. The exposed data included 6.8 million unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, purchases and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
