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Frame & Optic
January 16, 2025
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[ leak, retail ]
In January 2025, the eyewear seller Frame & Optic suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 16k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and geolocation data including country, state and postcode. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
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Netshoes
December 7, 2017
In December 2017, the online Brazilian retailer known as Netshoes had half a million records allegedly hacked from their system posted publicly. The company was contacted by local Brazilian media outlet Tecmundo and subsequently advised that no indications have been identified of an invasion of the company's systems. However, Netshoes' own systems successfully confirm the presence of matching identifiers and email addresses from the data set, indicating a high likelihood that the data originated from them.
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GPS Underground
July 1, 2016
In early 2017, GPS Underground was amongst a collection of compromised vBulletin websites that were found being sold online. The breach dated back to mid-2016 and included 670k records with usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.
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Elance
January 1, 2009
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[ leak, malware, technology ]
Sometime in 2009, staffing platform Elance suffered a data breach that impacted 1.3 million accounts. Appearing online 8 years later, the data contained usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and SHA1 hashes of passwords, amongst other personal data.
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DragonNest
August 23, 2013
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2013, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORGP) DragonNest suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed over 500k unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses and plain text passwords. The service later suffered a massive data loss.
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Android Forums
October 30, 2011
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[ hack, technology ]
In October 2011, the Android Forums website was hacked and 745k user accounts were subsequently leaked publicly. The compromised data included email addresses, user birth dates and passwords stored as a salted MD5 hash.
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ZAP-Hosting
November 22, 2021
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[ leak, technology ]
In November 2021, web host ZAP-Hosting suffered a data breach that exposed over 60GB of data containing 746k unique email addresses. The breach also contained support chat logs, IP addresses, names, purchases, physical addresses and phone numbers.
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Yahoo
July 11, 2012
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[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In July 2012, Yahoo! had their online publishing service "Voices" compromised via a SQL injection attack. The breach resulted in the disclosure of nearly half a million usernames and passwords stored in plain text. The breach showed that of the compromised accounts, a staggering 59% of people who also had accounts in the Sony breach reused their passwords across both services.
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The Fappening
December 1, 2015
In December 2015, the forum for discussing naked celebrity photos known as "The Fappening" (named after the iCloud leaks of 2014) was compromised and 179k accounts were leaked. Exposed member data included usernames, email addresses and salted hashes of passwords.
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RedLine Stealer
December 5, 2021
In December 2021, logs from the RedLine Stealer malware were left publicly exposed and were then obtained by security researcher Bob Diachenko. The data included 441 thousand unique email addresses, usernames and plain text passwords.
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Master Deeds
March 14, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In March 2017, a 27GB database backup file named "Master Deeds" was sent to HIBP by a supporter of the project. Upon detailed analysis later that year, the file was found to contain the personal data of tens of millions of living and deceased South African residents. The data included extensive personal attributes such as names, addresses, ethnicities, genders, birth dates, government issued personal identification numbers and 2.2 million email addresses. At the time of publishing, it's alleged the data was sourced from Dracore Data Sciences (Dracore is yet to publicly confirm or deny the data was sourced from their systems). On 18 October 2017, the file was found to have been published to a publicly accessible web server where it was located at the root of an IP address with directory listing enabled. The file was dated 8 April 2015.
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LuLu
July 6, 2024
In July 2024, the Emirati-based LuLu retail store suffered a data breach. The impacted data included 190k email addresses and associated phone numbers which were subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "IntelBroker". The following month, the threat of leaking the full database was carried out and a backup from October 2022 with a further 2.6M unique email addresses appeared. This data also included names, physical addresses, orders and PBKDF2 password hashes.
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Evite
August 11, 2013
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2019, the social planning website for managing online invitations Evite identified a data breach of their systems. Upon investigation, they found unauthorised access to a database archive dating back to 2013. The exposed data included a total of 101 million unique email addresses, most belonging to recipients of invitations. Members of the service also had names, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored in plain text exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
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Domino's India
March 24, 2021
In April 2021, 13TB of compromised Domino's India appeared for sale on a hacking forum after which the company acknowledged a major data breach they dated back to March. The compromised data included 22.5 million unique email addresses, names, phone numbers, order histories and physical addresses.
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Battlefield Heroes
June 26, 2011
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2011 as part of a final breached data dump, the hacker collective "LulzSec" obtained and released over half a million usernames and passwords from the game Battlefield Heroes. The passwords were stored as MD5 hashes with no salt and many were easily converted back to their plain text versions.
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Animal Jam
October 12, 2020
In October 2020, the online game for kids Animal Jam suffered a data breach which was subsequently shared through online hacking communities the following month. The data contained 46 million user accounts with over 7 million unique email addresses. Impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and for some records, dates of birth (sometimes in partial form), physical addresses, parent names and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes.
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Twitter
January 1, 2022
In January 2022, a vulnerability in Twitter's platform allowed an attacker to build a database of the email addresses and phone numbers of millions of users of the social platform. In a disclosure notice later shared in August 2022, Twitter advised that the vulnerability was related to a bug introduced in June 2021 and that they are directly notifying impacted customers. The impacted data included either email address or phone number alongside other public information including the username, display name, bio, location and profile photo. The data included 6.7M unique email addresses across both active and suspended accounts, the latter appearing in a separate list of 1.4M addresses.
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Team SoloMid
December 22, 2014
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[ hack, leak ]
In December 2014, the electronic sports organisation known as Team SoloMid was hacked and 442k members accounts were leaked. The accounts included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted hashes of passwords.
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Ster-Kinekor
March 9, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In 2016, the South African cinema company Ster-Kinekor had a security flaw which leaked a large amount of customer data via an enumeration vulnerability in the API of their old website. Whilst more than 6 million accounts were leaked by the flaw, the exposed data only contained 1.6 million unique email addresses. The data also included extensive personal information such as names, addresses, birthdates, genders and plain text passwords.
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Russian America
January 1, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2017, the website for Russian speakers in America known as Russian America suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 183k unique records including names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored in both plain text and as MD5 hashes. Russian America was contacted about the breach but did not respond.
