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Adobe
October 4, 2013
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2013, 153 million Adobe accounts were breached with each containing an internal ID, username, email, encrypted password and a password hint in plain text. The password cryptography was poorly done and many were quickly resolved back to plain text. The unencrypted hints also disclosed much about the passwords adding further to the risk that hundreds of millions of Adobe customers already faced.
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schenkYOU
August 15, 2024
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[ hack, retail ]
In September 2024, data from the online German gift store schenkYOU was put up for sale on a popular hacking forum. Obtained the month before, the data included 237k unique email addresses alongside names, dates of birth and salted SHA-256 password hashes. The standalone store was subsequently shut down with all traffic redirected to their Amazon store.
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EpicNPC
January 2, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
In January 2016, the hacked account reseller EpicNPC suffered a data breach that impacted 409k subscribers. The impacted data included usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018)
January 21, 2018
In January 2018, the children's gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten (CPRewritten) suffered a data breach (note: CPRewritten is an independent recreation of Disney's Club Penguin game). The incident exposed almost 1.7 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. When contacted, CPRewritten advised they were aware of the breach and had "contacted affected users".
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CDEK
March 9, 2022
In early 2022, a collective known as IT Army whose stated goal is to "completely de-anonymise most Russian users by leaking hundreds of gigabytes of databases" published over 30GB of data allegedly sourced from Russian courier service CDEK. The data contained over 19M unique email addresses along with names and phone numbers. The authenticity of the breach could not be independently established and has been flagged as "unverfieid".
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Whitepages
June 27, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2016, the telephone and address directory service Whitepages was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included over 11 million unique email addresses alongside names and passwords stored as either a SHA-1 or bcrypt hash. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
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The Heritage Foundation
July 9, 2024
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[ hack, education ]
In July 2024, hacktivists published almost 2GB of data taken from The Heritage Foundation and their media arm, The Daily Signal. The data contained 72k unique email addresses, primarily used for commenting on articles (along with names, IP addresses and the comments left) and by content contributors (along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or phpass hashes).
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Terravision
February 1, 2023
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2023, the European airport transfers service Terravision suffered a data breach. The breach exposed over 2M records of customer data including names, phone numbers, email addresses, salted password hashes and in some cases, date of birth and country of origin. Terravision did not respond to multiple attempts by individuals period over a period of months to report the incident.
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Phone House España
April 8, 2021
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[ ransomware, leak, malware ]
In April 2021, the Spanish retailer Phone House allegedly suffered a ransomware attack that also exposed significant volumes of customer data. Attributed to the Babuk ransomware, a collection of data alleged to be a subset of a larger corpus was posted to a dark web site and contained 5.2M email addresses along with names, nationalities, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and physical addresses. Phone House has been threatened with further releases if a ransom is not paid.
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Open CS:GO
November 28, 2017
In December 2017, the website for purchasing Counter-Strike skins known as Open CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) suffered a data breach (address since redirects to dropgun.com). The 10GB file contained an extensive amount of personal information including email and IP addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses and purchase histories. Numerous attempts were made to contact Open CS:GO about the incident, however no responses were received.
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MeetMindful
January 26, 2020
In early 2020, the online dating service MeetMindful suffered a data breach that exposed 1.4 million unique customer email addresses. Included in the data was an extensive array of personal information used to find romantic matches including physical attributes, use of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, marital statuses, birthdates, genders and the gender being sought. Additional personal information such as names, geographical locations and IP addresses were also exposed, along with passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
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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.
