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MDPI
August 30, 2016
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[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In August 2016, the Swiss scholarly open access publisher known as MDPI had 17.5GB of data obtained from an unprotected Mongo DB instance. The data contained email exchanges between MDPI and their authors and reviewers which included 845k unique email addresses. MDPI have confirmed that the system has since been protected and that no data of a sensitive nature was impacted. As such, they concluded that notification to their subscribers was not necessary due to the fact that all their authors and reviewers are available online on their website.
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Ladies.com
July 3, 2024
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2024, the lesbian dating website ladies.com suffered a data breach. Attributed to an exposed Firebase database, the breach included extensive personal information on 119k users of the service including email addresses, photos, sexual orientation, genders, dates of birth and precise latitude and longitude, among other personal attributes. The website was shut down in mid-2024 and the breach later acknowledged by the site operator in December, along with a breach of the "Senior Dating" website run by the same organisation.
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Games Box
September 21, 2020
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2020, now defunct website Games Box suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The impacted data included 1.4M email addresses alongside usernames, genders, ages and passwords stored as either a hash or plain text.
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123RF
March 22, 2020
In March 2020, the stock photo site 123RF suffered a data breach which impacted over 8 million subscribers and was subsequently sold online. The breach included email, IP and physical addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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The Club Penguin Experience
October 14, 2024
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[ leak, technology ]
In October 2024, The Club Penguin Experience (TCPE) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 6k subscribers' email addresses alongside usernames, age groups, passwords stored as bcrypt hashes and in some cases, plain text password hints. TCPE sent prompt disclosure notices to impacted customers following the breach.
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Legendas.TV
October 1, 2017
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[ hack, misconfiguration ]
In October 2017, the now defunct Brazilian service for retrieving subtitles in Portuguese Legendas.TV suffered a data breach that exposed nearly 4M customer records. The impacted data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses and unsalted SHA-1 hashes.
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Kreditplus
June 23, 2020
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[ leak, finance ]
In June 2020, the Indonesian credit service Kreditplus suffered a data breach which exposed 896k records containing 769k unique email addresses. The breach exposed extensive personal information including names, family makeup, information on spouses, income and expenses, religions and employment information. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw.
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JobStreet
March 7, 2012
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2017, the Malaysian website lowyat.net ran a story on a massive set of breached data affecting millions of Malaysians after someone posted it for sale on their forums. The data spanned multiple separate breaches including the JobStreet jobs website which contained almost 4 million unique email addresses. The dates in the breach indicate the incident occurred in March 2012. The data later appeared freely downloadable on a Tor hidden service and contained extensive information on job seekers including names, genders, birth dates, phone numbers, physical addresses and passwords.
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Exvagos
July 21, 2022
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[ leak, technology ]
In July 2022, the direct download website Exvagos suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 2.1M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and MD5 password hashes.
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Eatigo
October 16, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2018, the restaurant reservation service Eatigo suffered a data breach that exposed 2.8 million accounts. The data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, social media profiles, genders and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
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Cannabis.com
February 5, 2014
In February 2014, the vBulletin forum for the Marijuana site cannabis.com was breached and leaked publicly. Whilst there has been no public attribution of the breach, the leaked data included over 227k accounts and nearly 10k private messages between users of the forum.
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BreachForums Clone
June 17, 2023
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2023, a clone of the previously shuttered popular hacking forum "BreachForums" suffered a data breach that exposed over 4k records. The breach was due to an exposed backup of the MyBB database which included email and IP addresses, usernames and Argon2 password hashes.
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Yam
June 2, 2013
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2013, the Taiwanese website Yam.com suffered a data breach which was shared to a popular hacking forum in 2021. The data included 13 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
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Welhof
December 1, 2023
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[ leak, retail ]
In late 2023, the Dutch appliance store Welhof suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 100k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses and the value of purchases made. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
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Tibber
November 10, 2024
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[ hack, energy ]
In November 2024, the German electricity provider Tibber suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 50k customers. The data included names, email addresses, geographic locations (city and postcode) and total spend on purchases. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "Threat Actor 888".
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Taringa
August 1, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2017, news broke that Taringa had suffered a data breach exposing 28 million records. Known as "The Latin American Reddit", Taringa's breach disclosure notice indicated the incident dated back to August that year. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords.
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Minecraft Pocket Edition Forum
May 24, 2015
In May 2015, the Minecraft Pocket Edition forum was hacked and over 16k accounts were dumped public. Allegedly hacked by @rmsg0d, the forum data included numerous personal pieces of data for each user. The forum has subsequently been decommissioned.
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Lanwar
July 28, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2018, staff of the Lanwar gaming site discovered a data breach they believe dates back to sometime over the previous several months. The data contained 45k names, email addresses, usernames and plain text passwords. A Lanwar staff member self-submitted the breach to HIBP and has also contacted the relevant authorities about the incident after identifying a phishing attempt to extort Bitcoin from a user.
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LandAirSea
January 12, 2025
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[ hack, technology ]
In January 2025, the GPS tracking service LandAirSea suffered a data breach that exposed 337k unique customer email addresses alongside names, usernames and password hashes. The breach also exposed partial credit card data (card type, last 4 digits and expiration), and GPS device identifiers and locations. LandAirSea is aware of the breach and has remediated the underlying vulnerability. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "zathienaephi@proton.me".
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Genesis Market
April 5, 2023
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
In April 2023, the stolen identity marketplace Genesis Market was shut down by the FBI and a coalition of law enforcement agencies across the globe in "Operation Cookie Monster". The service traded in "browser fingerprints" which enabled criminals to impersonate victims and access their online services. As many of the impacted accounts did not include email addresses, "8M" is merely an approximation intended to indicate scale. Other personal data compromised by the service included names, addresses and credit card information, although not all individuals had each of these fields exposed.
