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Spyzie
February 22, 2024
In February 2025, the spyware service Spyzie suffered a data breach along with sibling spyware services, Spyic and Cocospy. The Spyzie breach alone exposed almost 519k customer email addresses which were provided to HIBP, and reportedly also enabled unauthorised access to captured messages, photos, call logs, and more. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "zathienaephi@proton.me".
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Scentbird
June 22, 2020
In June 2020, the online fragrance service Scentbird suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of over 5.8 million customers. Personal information including names, email addresses, genders, dates of birth, passwords stored as bcrypt hashes and indicators of password strength were all exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw.
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Powerbot
September 1, 2014
In approximately September 2014, the RuneScape bot website Powerbot suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of over half a million 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.
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Non Nude Girls
May 21, 2013
In May 2013, the non-consensual voyeurism site "Non Nude Girls" suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 75k accounts along with email and IP addresses, names and plain text passwords.
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ECCIE
July 1, 2021
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[ hack ]
In January 2021, the adult escort forum ECCIE suffered a data breach which was later posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 536k user records with email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.
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BreachForums
November 29, 2022
In November 2022, the well-known hacking forum "BreachForums" was itself, breached. Later the following year, the operator of the website was arrested and the site seized by law enforcement agencies. The breach exposed 212k records including usernames, IP and email addresses, private messages between site members and passwords stored as argon2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "breached_db_person".
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500px
July 5, 2018
In mid-2018, the online photography community 500px suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 15 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, genders, dates of birth and either an MD5 or bcrypt password hash. In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
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Soundwave
July 16, 2015
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid 2015, the music tracking app Soundwave suffered a data breach. The breach stemmed from an incident whereby "production data had been used to populate the test database" and was then inadvertently exposed in a MongoDB. The data contained 130k records and included email addresses, dates of birth, genders and MD5 hashes of passwords without a salt.
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MC2 Data
August 18, 2024
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2024, data aggregator MC2 Data left a database publicly accessible without a password which was subsequently discovered by a security researcher. The breach exposed the personal information of 2.1M subscribers to the service which was marketed under a series of different brand names. The data included email addresses, names and salted SHA-256 password hashes.
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JD Group
May 31, 2023
In May 2023, the South African retailer JD Group announced a data breach affecting a number of their online assets including Bradlows, Everyshop, HiFi Corp, Incredible (Connection), Rochester, Russells, and Sleepmasters. The breach exposed over 520k unique customer records including names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers and South African ID numbers.
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Fanpass
April 30, 2022
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[ leak, retail ]
In April 2022, the UK based website for buying and selling soccer tickets Fanpass suffered a data breach which exposed 112k customer records. Impacted data includes names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchase histories and salted password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "breaches.net".
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Dymocks
June 20, 2023
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[ leak, retail ]
In September 2023, the Australian book retailer Dymocks announced a data breach. The data dated back to June 2023 and contained 1.2M records with 836k unique email addresses. The breach also exposed names, dates of birth, genders, phone numbers and physical addresses.
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Digimon
September 5, 2016
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2016, over 16GB of logs from a service indicated to be digimon.co.in were obtained, most likely from an unprotected Mongo DB instance. The service ceased running shortly afterwards and no information remains about the precise nature of it. Based on enquiries made via Twitter, it appears to have been a mail service possibly based on PowerMTA and used for delivering spam. The logs contained information including 7.7M unique email recipients (names and addresses), mail server IP addresses, email subjects and tracking information including mail opens and clicks.
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Cracked.to
July 21, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In July 2019, the hacking website Cracked.to suffered a data breach. There were 749k unique email addresses spread across 321k forum users and other tables in the database. A rival hacking website claimed responsibility for breaching the MyBB based forum which disclosed email and IP addresses, usernames, private messages and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
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Cocospy
February 14, 2025
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[ hack, malware, technology ]
In February 2025, the spyware service Cocospy suffered a data breach along with sibling spyware service, Spyic. The Cocospy breach alone exposed almost 1.8M customer email addresses which were provided to HIBP, and reportedly also enabled unauthorised access to captured messages, photos, call logs, and more. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "zathienaephi@proton.me".
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Astropid
December 19, 2013
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[ social, leak, forum ]
In December 2013, the vBulletin forum for the social engineering site known as "AstroPID" was breached and leaked publicly. The site provided tips on fraudulently obtaining goods and services, often by providing a legitimate "PID" or Product Information Description. The breach resulted in nearly 6k user accounts and over 220k private messages between forum members being exposed.
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Acne.org
November 25, 2014
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[ leak, healthcare ]
In November 2014, the acne website acne.org suffered a data breach that exposed over 430k forum members' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and passwords.
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T2
April 17, 2024
In April 2024, 95k records from the T2 tea store were posted to a popular hacking forum. Data included email and physical addresses, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, purchases and passwords stored as scrypt hashes.
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SweClockers.com
April 1, 2015
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[ hack, technology ]
In early 2015, the Swedish tech news site SweClockers was hacked and 255k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of usernames, email addresses and salted hashes of passwords stored with a combination of MD5 and SHA512.
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NetGalley
December 21, 2020
In December 2020, the book promotion site NetGalley suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.4 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to pom@pompur.in.
