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BookCrossing
November 5, 2012
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2022, the book social networking site BookCrossing disclosed a data breach that dated back to a database backup from November 2012. The incident exposed almost 1.6M records including names, usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and plain text passwords.
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Bell (2014 breach)
February 1, 2014
In February 2014, Bell Canada suffered a data breach via the hacker collective known as NullCrew. The breach included data from multiple locations within Bell and exposed email addresses, usernames, user preferences and a number of unencrypted passwords and credit card data from 40,000 records containing just over 20,000 unique email addresses and usernames.
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Troy Hunt's Mailchimp List
March 25, 2025
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[ hack, phishing, technology ]
In March 2025, a phishing attack successfully gained access to Troy Hunt's Mailchimp account and automatically exported a list of people who had subscribed to the newsletter for his personal blog. The exported list contained 16k email addresses and other data automatically collected by Mailchimp including IP address and a derived latitude, longitude and time zone.
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TaiLieu
November 24, 2019
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
In November 2019, the Vietnamese education website TaiLieu allegedly suffered a data breach exposing 7.3M customer records. Impacted data included names and usernames, email addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com after being shared on a popular hacking forum. TaiLieu did not respond when contacted about the incident.
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OGUsers (2019 breach)
December 26, 2018
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2019, the account hijacking and SIM swapping forum OGusers suffered a data breach. The breach exposed a database backup from December 2018 which was published on a rival hacking forum. There were 161k unique email addresses spread across 113k forum users and other tables in the database. The exposed data also included usernames, IP addresses, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
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MagicDuel
August 2, 2023
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[ hack, technology ]
In August 2023, the MagicDuel Adventure website suffered a data breach that exposed 138k user records. The data included player names, email and IP addresses and bcrypt password hashes.
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Disqus
July 1, 2012
In October 2017, the blog commenting service Disqus announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach dated back to July 2012 but wasn't identified until years later when the data finally surfaced. The breach contained over 17.5 million unique email addresses and usernames. Users who created logins on Disqus had salted SHA1 hashes of passwords whilst users who logged in via social providers only had references to those accounts.
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ALIEN TXTBASE Stealer Logs
February 15, 2025
In February 2025, 23 billion rows of stealer logs were obtained from a Telegram channel known as ALIEN TXTBASE. The data contained 284M unique email addresses alongside the websites they were entered into and the passwords used. This data is now searchable in HIBP by both email domain and the domain of the target website.
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PS3Hax
July 1, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately July 2015, the Sony Playstation hacks and mods forum known as PS3Hax was hacked and more than 447k 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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MGM Resorts
July 25, 2019
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[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In July 2019, MGM Resorts discovered a data breach of one of their cloud services. The breach included 10.6M guest records with 3.1M unique email addresses stemming back to 2017. The exposed data included email and physical addresses, names, phone numbers and dates of birth and was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum in February 2020 where it was extensively redistributed. The data was provided to HIBP by Under The Breach.
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Lyrics Mania
December 21, 2017
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2017, the song lyrics website known as Lyrics Mania suffered a data breach. The data in the breach included 109k usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords. Numerous attempts were made to contact Lyrics Mania about the incident, however no responses were received.
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Gamigo
March 1, 2012
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[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In March 2012, the German online game publisher Gamigo was hacked and more than 8 million accounts publicly leaked. The breach included email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes with no salt.
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Clash of Kings
July 14, 2016
In July 2016, the forum for the game "Clash of Kings" suffered a data breach that impacted 1.6 million subscribers. The impacted data included usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Boulanger
September 6, 2024
In September 2024, French electronics retailer Boulanger suffered a data breach that exposed over 27M rows of data. The data included 967k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, phone numbers and latitude and longitude. The data was later publicly published to a popular hacking forum.
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Raychat
January 31, 2021
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[ hack, technology ]
In January 2021, the now defunct Iranian social media platform Raychat suffered a data breach that exposed 939 thousand unique email addresses. The data included names, IP addresses, browser user agent strings and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Plex
July 2, 2015
In July 2015, the discussion forum for Plex media centre was hacked and over 327k accounts exposed. The IP.Board forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
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GFAN
October 10, 2016
In October 2016, data surfaced that was allegedly obtained from the Chinese website known as GFAN and contained 22.5M 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 and IP addresses, user names and salted and hashed passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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AKP Emails
July 19, 2016
In July 2016, a hacker known as Phineas Fisher hacked Turkey's ruling party (Justice and Development Party or "AKP") and gained access to 300k emails. The full contents of the emails were subsequently published by WikiLeaks and made searchable. HIBP identified over 917k unique email address patterns in the data set, including message IDs and a number of other non-user addresses.
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Wendy's
March 31, 2018
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[ hack, retail ]
In March 2018, Wendy's in the Philippines suffered a data breach which impacted over 52k customers and job applicants. The breach exposed extensive personal information including names, email and IP addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
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tumblr
February 28, 2013
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In early 2013, tumblr suffered a data breach which resulted in the exposure of over 65 million accounts. The data was later put up for sale on a dark market website and included email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA1 hashes.