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Stealer Logs, Jan 2025
January 15, 2025
In January 2025, stealer logs with 71M email addresses were added to HIBP. Consisting of email address, password and the website the credentials were entered against, this breach marks the launch of a new HIBP feature enabling the retrieval of the specific websites the logs were collected against. The incident also resulted in 106M more passwords being added to the Pwned Passwords service.
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SlideTeam
April 6, 2021
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2021, the "worlds largest collection of pre-designed presentation slides" SlideTeam had 1.4M records breached and later published to a popular hacking forum the following year. Allegedly sourced from a compromised Magento instance, the data included names, email addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes.
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SkTorrent
February 19, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2016, the Slovak torrent tracking site SkTorrent was hacked and over 117k records leaked online. The data dump included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
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Ordine Avvocati di Roma
May 7, 2019
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[ leak, government ]
In May 2019, the Lawyers Order of Rome suffered a data breach by a group claiming to be Anonymous Italy. Data on tens of thousands of Roman lawyers was taken from the breached system and redistributed online. The data included contact information, email addresses and email messages themselves encompassing tens of thousands of unique email addresses. A total of 42k unique addresses appeared in the breach.
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europa.jobs
August 11, 2019
In August 2019, the now defunct European jobs website europa.jobs (Google cache link) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 226k unique email addresses alongside extensive personal information including names, dates of birth, job applications and passwords. The data was subsequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum.
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DLH.net
July 31, 2016
In July 2016, the gaming news site DLH.net suffered a data breach which exposed 3.3M subscriber identities. Along with the keys used to redeem and activate games on the Steam platform, the breach also resulted in the exposure of email addresses, birth dates and salted MD5 password hashes. The data was donated to Have I Been Pwned by data breach monitoring service Vigilante.pw.
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Bitly
May 8, 2014
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[ hack, technology ]
In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.
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WoTLabs
March 3, 2024
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[ hack, technology ]
In March 2024, WoTLabs (World of Tanks Statistics and Resources) suffered a data breach and website defacement attributed to "chromebook breachers". The breach exposed 22k forum members' personal data including email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and time zones.
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War Inc.
July 4, 2012
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[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2012, the real-time strategy game War Inc. suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the exposure of over 1 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
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Twitter (200M)
January 1, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
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TGBUS
September 1, 2017
In approximately 2017, it's alleged that the Chinese gaming site known as TGBUS suffered a data breach that impacted over 10 million unique subscribers. 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 usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes and was provided with support from dehashed.com. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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SwordFantasy
January 20, 2017
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[ leak, technology ]
In January 2019, the now defunct MMO and RPG game SwordFantasy suffered a data breach that exposed 2.7M unique email addresses. Other impacted data included username, IP address and salted MD5 password hashes.
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SuperDraft
October 27, 2024
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[ leak, technology ]
In October 2024, the fantasy sports platform SuperDraft suffered a data breach that exposed over 300k customer records. The breach contained 24GB of data including email addresses, usernames, transactions, latitudes and longitudes, dates of birth and bcrypt password hashes.
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NetEase
October 19, 2015
In October 2015, the Chinese site known as NetEase (located at 163.com) was reported as having suffered a data breach that impacted hundreds of millions of subscribers. Whilst there is evidence that the data itself is legitimate (multiple HIBP subscribers confirmed a password they use is in the data), 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 plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021)
April 8, 2021
During the first half of 2021, LinkedIn was targeted by attackers who scraped data from hundreds of millions of public profiles and later sold them online. Whilst the scraping did not constitute a data breach nor did it access any personal data not intended to be publicly accessible, the data was still monetised and later broadly circulated in hacking circles. The scraped data contains approximately 400M records with 125M unique email addresses, as well as names, geographic locations, genders and job titles. LinkedIn specifically addresses the incident in their post on An update on report of scraped data.
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hemmelig.com
December 21, 2011
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[ hack, retail ]
In December 2011, Norway's largest online sex shop hemmelig.com was hacked by a collective calling themselves "Team Appunity". The attack exposed over 28,000 usernames and email addresses along with nicknames, gender, year of birth and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
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Experian (2015)
September 16, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
In September 2015, the US based credit bureau and consumer data broker Experian suffered a data breach that impacted 15 million customers who had applied for financing from T-Mobile. An alleged data breach was subsequently circulated containing personal information including names, physical and email addresses, birth dates and various other personal attributes. Multiple Have I Been Pwned subscribers verified portions of the data as being accurate, but the actual source of it was inconclusive therefor this breach has been flagged as "unverified".
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Elasticsearch Instance of Sales Leads on AWS
October 29, 2018
In October 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko identified multiple exposed databases with hundreds of millions of records. One of those datasets was an Elasticsearch instance on AWS containing sales lead data and 5.8M unique email addresses. The data contained information relating to individuals and the companies they worked for including their names, email addresses and company name and contact information. Despite best efforts, it was not possible to identify the owner of the data hence this breach as been titled "Elasticsearch Sales Leads".
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CraftRise
March 5, 2022
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[ hack, technology ]
In May 2023, news broke of a data breach of the Turkish Minecraft server known as CraftRise. The data of over 2.5M users was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and included email addresses, usernames, geographic locations and plain text passwords. The newest records indicate the data was obtained in March 2022.
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Victory Phones
January 1, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2017, the automated telephony services company Victory Phones left a Mongo DB database publicly facing without a password. Subsequently, 213GB of data was downloaded by an unauthorised party including names, addresses, phone numbers and over 166k unique email addresses.
