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VTech
November 13, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
In November 2015, hackers extracted more than 4.8 million parents' and 227k children's accounts from VTech's Learning Lodge website. The Hong Kong company produces learning products for children including software sold via the compromised website. The data breach exposed extensive personal details including home addresses, security questions and answers and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes. Furthermore, children's details including names, ages, genders and associations to their parents' records were also exposed.
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mSpy (2024)
June 9, 2024
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
In June 2024, a huge trove of data from spyware maker mSpy was obtained by hacktivists and published online. Comprising of 142GB of user data and support tickets along with 176GB of more than half a million attachments, the data contained 2.4M unique email addresses, IP addresses names and photos. The data was predominantly support tickets seeking help to install the spyware on target devices, whilst the attachments contained various data including screen grans of financial transactions, photos of credit cards and nude selfies.
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Mashable
June 1, 2020
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[ leak ]
In approximately mid-2020, Mashable suffered a data breach that subsequently turned up publicly in November 2020. The data included 1.4 million unique email addresses along with names, genders, expired auth tokens, physical locations, links to social media profiles and days and months of birth. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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Exactis
June 1, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2018, the marketing firm Exactis inadvertently publicly leaked 340 million records of personal data. Security researcher Vinny Troia of Night Lion Security discovered the leak contained multiple terabytes of personal information spread across hundreds of separate fields including addresses, phone numbers, family structures and extensive profiling data. The data was collected as part of Exactis' service as a "compiler and aggregator of premium business & consumer data" which they then sell for profiling and marketing purposes. A small subset of the exposed fields were provided to Have I Been Pwned and contained 132 million unique email addresses.
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digiDirect
September 29, 2024
In September 2024, a data breach sourced from the Australian retailer digiDirect was published to a popular hacking forum. The breach exposed over 300k rows of data including email and physical address, name, phone number and date of birth. Approximately half the email addresses were on domains from external marketplaces including Amazon, eBay and Westfield.
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Creative
May 1, 2018
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2018, the forum for Singaporean hardware company Creative Technology suffered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 483k unique email addresses. Running on an old version of vBulletin, the breach also disclosed usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. After being notified of the incident, Creative permanently shut down the forum.
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Autocentrum.pl
February 4, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In February 2018, data belonging to the Polish motoring website autocentrum.pl was found online. The data contained 144k email addresses and plain text passwords.
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Ancestry
November 7, 2015
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, an Ancestry service known as RootsWeb suffered a data breach. The breach was not discovered until late 2017 when a file containing almost 300k email addresses and plain text passwords was identified.
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WiziShop
July 14, 2020
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[ leak, retail ]
In July 2020, the French e-commerce platform WiziShop suffered a data breach. The breach exposed 18GB worth of data including names, phone numbers, dates of birth, physical and IP addresses, SHA-1 password hashes and almost 3 million unique email addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "pom@pompur.in".
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Minehut
May 17, 2019
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[ leak, technology ]
In May 2019, the Minecraft server website Minehut suffered a data breach. The company advised a database backup had been obtained after which they subsequently notified all impacted users. 397k email addresses from the incident were provided to HIBP. A data set with both email addresses and bcrypt password hashes was also later provided to HIBP.
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Foxy Bingo
April 4, 2008
In April 2007, the online gambling site Foxy Bingo was hacked and 252,000 accounts were obtained by the hackers. The breached records were subsequently sold and traded and included personal information data such as plain text passwords, birth dates and home addresses.
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Date Hot Brunettes
January 12, 2021
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[ leak, technology ]
In January 2021, the now defunct website Date Hot Brunettes which provided a service to "Date Neglected Women Who Can Keep a Secret", suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames, user-entered bios and MD5 password hashes.
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APK.TW
September 3, 2022
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[ leak, technology ]
In September 2022, the Taiwanese Android forum APK.TW suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 2.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.
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XSplit
November 7, 2013
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[ hack, technology ]
In November 2013, the makers of gaming live streaming and recording software XSplit was compromised in an online attack. The data breach leaked almost 3M names, email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords.
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Uiggy
June 1, 2016
In June 2016, the Facebook application known as Uiggy was hacked and 4.3M accounts were exposed, 2.7M of which had email addresses against them. The leaked accounts also exposed names, genders and the Facebook ID of the owners.
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Paddy Power
October 25, 2010
In October 2010, the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power suffered a data breach that exposed 750,000 customer records with nearly 600,000 unique email addresses. The breach was not disclosed until July 2014 and contained extensive personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and plain text security questions and answers.
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Mac-Torrents
October 31, 2015
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no salt.
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Go Ninja
December 17, 2019
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[ hack, technology ]
In December 2019, the now defunct German gaming website Go Ninja suffered a data breach that exposed 5M unique email addresses. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. More than 4M of the email addresses appeared to have been generated as opposed to organically provided by the user.
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Samsung Germany Customer Tickets
March 30, 2024
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[ leak, malware, technology ]
In March 2025, data from Samsung Germany was compromised in a data breach of their logistics provider, Spectos. Allegedly due to credentials being obtained by malware running on a Spectos employee's machine, the breach included 216k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, items purchased from Samsung Germany and related support tickets and shipping tracking numbers.
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Kimsufi
May 1, 2015
In mid-2015, the forum for the providers of affordable dedicated servers known as Kimsufi suffered a data breach. The vBulletin forum contained over half a million accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
