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R2 (2017 forum breach)
January 1, 2017
In early 2017, the forum for the gaming website R2 Games was hacked. R2 had previously appeared on HIBP in 2015 after a prior incident. This one exposed over 1 million unique user accounts and corresponding MD5 password hashes with no salt.
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PoinCampus
November 14, 2024
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[ leak, education ]
In November 2024, the South Korean education platform PoinCampus suffered a data breach which was later published to a popular hacking forum. The data included 89k unique email addresses, names and a small number of phone numbers and dates of birth. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "Threat Actor 888".
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MediaWorks
March 15, 2023
In March 2024, millions of rows of data from the New Zealand media company MediaWorks was publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The incident exposed 163k unique email addresses provided by visitors who filled out online competitions and included names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and the responses to questions in the competition. Some victims of the breach subsequently received ransom demands requesting payment to have their data deleted.
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Intelimost
March 10, 2019
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[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In March 2019, a spam operation known as "Intelimost" sent millions of emails appearing to come from people the recipients knew. Security researcher Bob Diachenko found over 3 million unique email addresses in an exposed Elasticsearch database, alongside plain text passwords used to access the victim's mailbox and customise the spam.
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Chatbooks
March 26, 2020
In March 2020, the photo print service Chatbooks suffered a data breach which was subsequently put up for sale on a dark web marketplace. The breach contained 15 million user records with 2.5 million unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers, social media profiles and salted SHA-512 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Advance Auto Parts
June 5, 2024
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[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In June 2024, Advance Auto Parts confirmed they had suffered a data breach which was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum. Linked to unauthorised access to Snowflake cloud services, the breach exposed a large number of records related to both customers and employees. In total, 79M unique email addresses were included in the breach, alongside names, phone numbers, addresses and further data attributes related to company employees.
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Zoosk (2011)
January 1, 2011
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2011, an alleged breach of the dating website Zoosk began circulating. Comprised of almost 53 million records, the data contained email addresses and plain text passwords. However, during extensive verification in May 2016 no evidence could be found that the data was indeed sourced from the dating service. This breach has consequently been flagged as fabricated; it's highly unlikely the data was sourced from Zoosk.
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uuu9
September 6, 2016
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[ leak, technology ]
In September 2016, data was allegedly obtained from the Chinese website known as uuu9.com and contained 7.5M accounts. 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 user names. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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Travel Oklahoma
December 17, 2020
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[ leak, government ]
In December 2020, the Oklahoma state Tourism and Recreation Department suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 637k email addresses across a variety of tables including age ranges against brochure orders and dates of birth against contest entries. Genders, names and physical addresses were also exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "badhou3a".
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Operation Endgame
May 30, 2024
In May 2024, a coalition of international law enforcement agencies took down a series of botnets in a campaign they coined "Operation Endgame". Data seized in the operation included impacted email addresses and passwords which were provided to HIBP to help victims learn of their exposure.
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MyFHA
February 18, 2015
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[ leak, finance ]
In approximately February 2015, the home financing website MyFHA suffered a data breach which disclosed the personal information of nearly 1 million people. The data included extensive personal information relating to home financing including personal contact info, credit statuses, household incomes, loan amounts and notes on personal circumstances, often referring to legal issues, divorces and health conditions. Multiple parties contacted HIBP with the data after which MyFHA was alerted in mid-July and acknowledged the legitimacy of the breach then took the site offline.
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Indian Railways
October 28, 2019
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[ leak, misconfiguration, government ]
In November 2019, the website for Indian Rail left more than 2M records exposed on an unprotected Firebase database instance. The exposed data included 583k unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored in plain text.
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Doomworld
October 12, 2022
In October 2022, the Doomworld fourm suffered a data breach that exposed 34k member records. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and bcrypt password hashes.
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Domino's
June 13, 2014
In June 2014, Domino's Pizza in France and Belgium was hacked by a group going by the name "Rex Mundi" and their customer data held to ransom. Domino's refused to pay the ransom and six months later, the attackers released the data along with troves of other hacked accounts. Amongst the customer data was passwords stored with a weak MD5 hashing algorithm and no salt.
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Wakanim
August 28, 2022
In August 2022, the European streaming service Wakanim suffered a data breach which was subsequently advertised and sold on a popular hacking forum. The breach exposed 6.7M customer records including email, IP and physical addresses, names and usernames.
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NurseryCam
February 12, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In February 2021, a series of egregiously bad security flaws were identified in the NurseryCam system designed for parents to remotely monitor their children whilst attending nursery. The flaws led to the exposure of over 10k parent records before the service was shut down. The email addresses alone were provided to Have I Been Pwned to ensure parents were properly notified of the incident.
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Atlas Quantum
August 25, 2018
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[ leak, finance ]
In August 2018, the cryptocurrency investment platform Atlas Quantum suffered a data breach. The breach leaked the personal data of 261k investors on the platform including their names, phone numbers, email addresses and account balances.
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Zomato
May 17, 2017
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[ hack, technology ]
In May 2017, the restaurant guide website Zomato was hacked resulting in the exposure of almost 17 million accounts. The data was consequently redistributed online and contains email addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords (the password hash was not present on all accounts). This data was provided to HIBP by whitehat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
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R2Games
November 1, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In late 2015, the gaming website R2Games was hacked and more than 2.1M personal records disclosed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked. A further 11M accounts were added to "Have I Been Pwned" in March 2016 and another 9M in July 2016 bringing the total to over 22M.
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Forbes
February 15, 2014
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[ leak, technology ]
In February 2014, the Forbes website succumbed to an attack that leaked over 1 million user accounts. The attack was attributed to the Syrian Electronic Army, allegedly as retribution for a perceived "Hate of Syria". The attack not only leaked user credentials, but also resulted in the posting of fake news stories to forbes.com.
