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AnimeGame
February 27, 2020
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[ hack, technology ]
In February 2020, the gaming website AnimeGame suffered a data breach. The incident affected 1.4M subscribers and exposed email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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VK
January 1, 2012
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[ hack, technology ]
In approximately 2012, the Russian social media site known as VK was hacked and almost 100 million accounts were exposed. The data emerged in June 2016 where it was being sold via a dark market website and included names, phone numbers email addresses and plain text passwords.
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SitePoint
June 20, 2020
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[ hack, technology ]
In June 2020, the web development site SitePoint suffered a data breach that exposed over 1M customer records. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, names, usernames, bios and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
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piZap
December 7, 2017
In approximately December 2017, the online photo editing site piZap suffered a data breach. The data was later placed up for sale on a dark web marketplace along with a collection of other data breaches in February 2019. A total of 42 million unique email addresses were included in the breach alongside names, genders and links to Facebook profiles when the social media platform was used to authenticate to piZap. When accounts were created directly on piZap without using Facebook for authentication, passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes were also exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
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LDLC
February 28, 2024
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[ hack, retail ]
In March 2024, French retailer LDLC disclosed a data breach that impacted customers of their physical stores. The data was previously listed for sale on a popular hacking forum and contained 1.26M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
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Chegg
April 28, 2018
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
In April 2018, the textbook rental service Chegg suffered a data breach that impacted 40 million subscribers. The exposed data included email addresses, usernames, names and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. A small number of records also contained physical address or phone number. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
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Animoto
July 10, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
In July 2018, the cloud-based video making service Animoto suffered a data breach. The breach exposed 22 million unique email addresses alongside names, dates of birth, country of origin and salted password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
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Adecco
January 3, 2021
In March 2021, news broke of a massive data breach impacting millions of Adecco customers in South America which was subsequently sold on a popular hacking forum. The breach exposed over 4M unique email addresses as well as genders, dates of birth, marital statuses, phone numbers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
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QIP
June 1, 2011
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[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2011, the Russian instant messaging service known as QIP (Quiet Internet Pager) suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of over 26 million unique accounts including email addresses and passwords with the data eventually appearing in public years later.
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Husky Owners
July 4, 2024
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[ hack, leak ]
In July 2024, the Husky Owners forum website was defaced and linked to a breach of user data containing 16k records. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses, dates of birth and time zones.
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Eye4Fraud
January 25, 2023
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2023, data alleged to have been taken from the fraud protection service Eye4Fraud was listed for sale on a popular hacking forum. Spanning tens of millions of rows with 16M unique email addresses, the data was spread across 147 tables totalling 65GB and included both direct users of the service and what appears to be individuals who'd placed orders on other services that implemented Eye4Fraud to protect their sales. The data included names and bcrypt password hashes for users, and names, phone numbers, physical addresses and partial credit card data (card type and last 4 digits) for orders placed using the service. Eye4Fraud did not respond to multiple attempts to report the incident.
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Exploit.In
October 13, 2016
In late 2016, a huge list of email address and password pairs appeared in a "combo list" referred to as "Exploit.In". The list contained 593 million unique email addresses, many with multiple different passwords hacked from various online systems. The list was broadly circulated and used for "credential stuffing", that is attackers employ it in an attempt to identify other online systems where the account owner had reused their password. For detailed background on this incident, read Password reuse, credential stuffing and another billion records in Have I Been Pwned.
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Dunzo
June 19, 2020
In approximately June 2019, the Indian delivery service Dunzo suffered a data breach. Exposing 3.5 million unique email addresses, the Dunzo breach also included names, phone numbers and IP addresses which were all broadly distributed online via a hacking forum. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Zhenai.com
December 21, 2011
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2011, the Chinese dating site known as Zhenai.com suffered a data breach that impacted 5 million 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 email addresses and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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Polish Credentials
May 29, 2023
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[ leak, malware ]
In May 2023, a credential stuffing list of 6.3M Polish email address and password pairs appeared on a local forum. Likely obtained by malware running on victims' machines, each record included an email address and plain text password alongside the website the credentials were used on. The data included 1.2M unique email addresses.
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XPG
January 1, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
In approximately early 2016, the gaming website Xpgamesaves (XPG) suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 890k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory. This data was provided by security researcher and data analyst, Adam Davies.
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Social Engineered
June 13, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In June 2019, the "Art of Human Hacking" site Social Engineered suffered a data breach. The breach of the MyBB forum was published on a rival hacking forum and included 89k unique email addresses spread across 55k forum users and other tables in the database. The exposed data also included usernames, IP addresses, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
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Lumin PDF
April 1, 2019
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2019, the PDF management service Lumin PDF suffered a data breach. The breach wasn't publicly disclosed until September when 15.5M records of user data appeared for download on a popular hacking forum. The data had been left publicly exposed in a MongoDB instance after which Lumin PDF was allegedly been "contacted multiple times, but ignored all the queries". The exposed data included names, email addresses, genders, spoken language and either a bcrypt password hash or Google auth token. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
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KomplettFritid
February 1, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In January 2023, the online Norwegian store KomplettFritid was reported as having had a data breach dating back to February 2021. The incident exposed 140k customer records including physical, email and IP addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords. Most passwords were stored as bcrypt hashes with a small number appearing in plain text.
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Internet Archive
September 28, 2024
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[ hack, technology ]
In September 2024, the digital library of internet sites Internet Archive suffered a data breach that exposed 31M records. The breach exposed user records including email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes.
