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Lexipol
February 11, 2025
In February 2025, the public safety policy management systems company Lexipol suffered a data breach. Attributed to the self-proclaimed "Puppygirl Hacker Polycule", the breach exposed an extensive number of documents and user records which were subsequently published publicly. The breach included over 670k unique email addresses in the user records, along with names, phone numbers, system-generated usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or SHA-256 hashes.
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Heroes of Gaia
January 4, 2013
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[ leak, technology ]
In early 2013, the online fantasy multiplayer game Heroes of Gaia suffered a data breach. The newest records in the data set indicate a breach date of 4 January 2013 and include usernames, IP and email addresses but no passwords.
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Bookmate
July 8, 2018
In mid-2018, the social ebook subscription service Bookmate was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included almost 4 million unique email addresses alongside names, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
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Ashley Madison
July 19, 2015
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[ leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the infidelity website Ashley Madison suffered a serious data breach. The attackers threatened Ashley Madison with the full disclosure of the breach unless the service was shut down. One month later, the database was dumped including more than 30M unique email addresses. This breach has been classed as "sensitive" and is not publicly searchable, although individuals may discover if they've been impacted by registering for notifications. Read about this approach in detail.
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Upstox
April 8, 2021
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[ finance, leak ]
In April 2021, Indian brokerage firm Upstox suffered a data breach. The incident exposed extensive personal information on over 100k customers including names, genders, dates of birth, physical addresses, banking information and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Extensive "know your customer" information was also exposed including scans of bank statements, cheques and identity documents complete with Aadhaar numbers. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
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Stripchat
November 5, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2021, the live sex cams and adult chat website Stripchat left several databases exposed and unsecured. In June the following year, over 10M Stripchat records appeared on a popular hacking forum. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses and IP addresses.
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Stealer Logs Posted to Telegram
July 18, 2024
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[ leak, malware ]
In July 2024, info stealer logs with 26M unique email addresses were collated from malicious Telegram channels. The data contained 22GB of logs consisting of email addresses, passwords and the websites they were used on, all obtained by malware running on infected machines.
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Read Novel
May 1, 2019
In May 2019, the Chinese literature website Read Novel allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed 22M unique email addresses. Data also included usernames, genders, phone numbers and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net". Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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QuinStreet
December 14, 2015
In approximately late 2015, the maker of "performance marketing products" QuinStreet had a number of their online assets compromised. The attack impacted 28 separate sites, predominantly technology forums such as flashkit.com, codeguru.com and webdeveloper.com (view a full list of sites). QuinStreet advised that impacted users have been notified and passwords reset. The data contained details on over 4.9 million people and included email addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 hashes.
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PSX-Scene
February 1, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately February 2015, the Sony Playstation forum known as PSX-Scene was hacked and more than 340k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
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Leaked Reality
January 31, 2022
In January 2022, the now defunct uncensored video website Leaked Reality suffered a data breach that exposed 115k unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as either MD5 or phpass hashes.
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InterPals
November 4, 2015
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
In late 2015, the online penpal site InterPals had their website hacked and 3.4 million accounts exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, geographical locations, birthdates and salted hashes of passwords.
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Gemplex
February 18, 2021
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[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In February 2021, the Indian streaming platform Gemplex suffered a data breach that exposed 4.6M user accounts. The impacted data included device information, names, phone numbers, email addresses and bcrypt password hashes.
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Carding Mafia (March 2021)
March 18, 2021
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[ leak, financial ]
In March 2021, the Carding Mafia forum suffered a data breach that exposed almost 300k members' email addresses. Dedicated to the theft and trading of stolen credit cards, the forum breach also exposed usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
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yotepresto.com
June 22, 2020
In June 2020, the Mexican lending platform yotepresto.com suffered a data breach. Over 1.4 million customers were impacted by the breach which disclosed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Washington State Food Worker Card
November 17, 2022
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[ leak, hack, government ]
In June 2023, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced a data breach of their Washington State Food Worker Card online training system. The breach was published to a popular hacking forum the year before and dated back to a 2018 database backup. Included in the data were 1.6M unique email addresses along with names, post codes, dates of birth and approximately 9.5k driver's licence numbers.
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Tianya
December 26, 2011
In December 2011, China's largest online forum known as Tianya was hacked and tens of millions of accounts were obtained by the attacker. The leaked data included names, usernames and email addresses.
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Moneycontrol
September 7, 2017
In April 2021, hackers posted data for sale originating from the online Indian financial platform, Moneycontrol. The data included 763 thousand unique email addresses (allegedly a subset of a larger 40 million account breach), alongside geographic locations, phone numbers, genders, dates of birth and plain text passwords. The date of the original breach is unclear, although the breached data indicates the file was created in September 2017 and Moneycontrol has stated that the breach is "an old data set".
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Facepunch
June 3, 2016
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[ hack, technology ]
In June 2016, the game development studio Facepunch suffered a data breach that exposed 343k users. The breached data included usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes. Facepunch advised they were aware of the incident and had notified people at the time. The data was provided to HIBP by whitehat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
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CD Projekt RED
March 1, 2016
In March 2016, Polish game developer CD Projekt RED suffered a data breach. The hack of their forum led to the exposure of almost 1.9 million accounts along with usernames, email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords.
