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Qakbot
August 29, 2023
In August 2023, the US Justice Department announced a multinational operation involving actions in the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to disrupt the botnet and malware known as Qakbot and take down its infrastructure. After the takedown, 6.43M email addresses were provided to HIBP to help notify victims of the malware.
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OrderSnapp
June 29, 2020
In June 2020, the restaurant solutions provider OrderSnapp suffered a data breach which exposed 1.3M unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Emotet
January 27, 2021
In January 2021, the FBI in partnership with the Dutch NHTCU, German BKA and other international law enforcement agencies brought down the world's most dangerous malware: Emotet. The agencies obtained data collected by the malware and provided impacted email addresses to HIBP so that impacted individuals and domain owners could assess their exposure. Read more about the takedown and recommended actions.
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Combolists Posted to Telegram
May 28, 2024
In May 2024, 2B rows of data with 361M unique email addresses were collated from malicious Telegram channels. The data contained 122GB across 1.7k files with email addresses, usernames, passwords and in many cases, the website they were entered into. The data appears to have been sourced from a combination of existing combolists and info stealer malware.
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BudTrader
June 27, 2024
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[ hack, misconfiguration ]
In July 2024, a data breach of the now defunct cannabis social platform BudTrader was posted for sale on a hacking forum. Dating back to the previous month, the breach of the website exposed 2.7M email addresses, usernames and WordPress password hashes.
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BtoBet
December 26, 2019
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2019, a large collection of data from Nigerian gambling company Surebet247 was sent to HIBP. Alongside the Surebet247, database backups from gambling sites BetAlfa, BetWay, BongoBongo and TopBet was also included. Further investigation implicated betting platform provider BtoBet as being the common source of the data. Impacted data included user records and extensive information on gambling histories.
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BlankMediaGames
December 28, 2018
In December 2018, the Town of Salem website produced by BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach. Reported to HIBP by DeHashed, the data contained 7.6M unique user email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses, purchase histories and passwords stored as phpass hashes. DeHashed made multiple attempts to contact BlankMediaGames over various channels and many days but had yet to receive a response at the time of publishing.
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TNAFlix
June 1, 2022
In June 2022, the adult website TNAFlix suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 1.4M records of email and IP addresses, usernames and plain text passwords.
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SC Daily Phone Spam List
April 14, 2015
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[ leak ]
In early 2015, a spam list known as SC Daily Phone emerged containing almost 33M identities. The data includes personal attributes such as names, physical and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and phone numbers. Read more about spam lists in HIBP.
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Promo
June 22, 2020
In July 2020, the self-proclaimed "World's #1 Marketing Video Maker" Promo suffered a data breach which was then shared extensively on a hacking forum. The incident exposed 22 million records containing almost 15 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, genders, names and salted SHA-256 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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PlayCyberGames
August 9, 2023
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2023, PlayCyberGames which "allows users to play any games with LAN function or games using IP address" suffered a data breach which exposed 3.7M customer records. The data included email addresses, usernames and MD5 password hashes with a constant value in the "salt" field. PlayCyberGames did not respond to multiple attempts to disclose the breach.
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Mr. Green Gaming
March 1, 2024
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[ leak, technology ]
In March 2024, the online games community Mr. Green Gaming suffered a data breach that exposed 27k user records. Acknowledged on their Discord server, the incident exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, geographic locations and dates of birth.
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Freedom Hosting II
January 31, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2017, the free hidden service host Freedom Hosting II suffered a data breach. The attack allegedly took down 20% of dark web sites running behind Tor hidden services with the attacker claiming that of the 10,613 impacted sites, more than 50% of the content was child pornography. The hack led to the exposure of MySQL databases for the sites which included a vast amount of information on the hidden services Freedom Hosting II was managing. The impacted data classes far exceeds those listed for the breach and differ between the thousands of impacted sites.
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ClearVoice Surveys
August 23, 2015
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2021, the market research surveys company ClearVoice Surveys had a publicly facing database backup from 2015 taken and redistributed on a popular hacking forum. The data included 15M unique email addresses across more than 17M rows of data that also included names, physical and IP addresses, genders, dates of birth and plain text passwords. ClearVoice Surveys advised they were aware of the breach and confirmed its authenticity.
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Adult FriendFinder (2015)
May 21, 2015
In May 2015, the adult hookup site Adult FriendFinder was hacked and nearly 4 million records dumped publicly. The data dump included extremely sensitive personal information about individuals and their relationship statuses and sexual preferences combined with personally identifiable information.
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Wattpad
June 29, 2020
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
In June 2020, the user-generated stories website Wattpad suffered a huge data breach that exposed almost 270 million records. The data was initially sold then published on a public hacking forum where it was broadly shared. The incident exposed extensive personal information including names and usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
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Vianet
April 8, 2020
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
In April 2020, the Nepalese internet service provider Vianet suffered a data breach. The attack on the ISP led to the exposure of 177k customer records including 94k unique email addresses. Also exposed were names, phone numbers and physical addresses.
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Truth Finder
April 12, 2019
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[ leak, technology ]
In 2019, the public records search service TruthFinder suffered a data breach that later came to light in early 2023. The data included over 8M unique customer email addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as scrypt hashes.
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Tangerine
February 18, 2024
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2024, the Australian Telco Tangerine suffered a data breach that exposed over 200k customer records. Attributed to a legacy customer database, the data included physical and email addresses, names, phone numbers and dates of birth. Whilst the Tangerine login process involves sending a one-time password after entering an email address and phone number, it previously used a traditional password which was also exposed as a bcrypt hash.
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Morele.net
October 10, 2018
In October 2018, the Polish e-commerce website Morele.net suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 2.5 million unique email addresses alongside phone numbers, names and passwords stored as md5crypt hashes.
