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We Heart It
November 3, 2013
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[ hack, technology ]
In November 2013, the image-based social network We Heart It suffered a data breach. The incident wasn't discovered until October 2017 when 8.6 million user records were sent to HIBP. The data contained user names, email addresses and password hashes, 80% of which were salted SHA-256 with the remainder being MD5 with no salt.
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Shitexpress
August 8, 2022
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[ hack, retail ]
In August 2022, the online faeces delivery service Shitexpress suffered a data breach that exposed 24k unique email addresses. The addresses spanned invoices, gift cards, promotions and PayPal records. The breach also exposed the IP and email addresses of senders, physical addresses of recipients and messages accompanying the shit delivery.
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Samsung Germany Customer Tickets
March 30, 2025
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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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imgur
September 1, 2013
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2013, the online image sharing community imgur suffered a data breach. A selection of the data containing 1.7 million email addresses and passwords surfaced more than 4 years later in November 2017. Although imgur stored passwords as SHA-256 hashes, the data in the breach contained plain text passwords suggesting that many of the original hashes had been cracked. imgur advises that they rolled over to bcrypt hashes in 2016.
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Crack Community
September 9, 2013
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[ leak, sqlinjection, technology ]
In late 2013, the Crack Community forum specialising in cracks for games was compromised and over 19k accounts published online. Built on the MyBB forum platform, the compromised data included email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 passwords.
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Color Dating
September 5, 2018
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2018, the dating app to match people with different ethnicities Color Dating suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 220k unique email addresses along with bios, names, profile photos and bcrypt password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "ANK (Veles)".
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AgusiQ-Torrents.pl
September 24, 2019
In September 2019, Polish torrent site AgusiQ-Torrents.pl suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 90k member records including email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
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SuperDraft
October 27, 2024
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[ leak, technology ]
In October 2024, the fantasy sports platform SuperDraft suffered a data breach that exposed over 300k customer records. The breach contained 24GB of data including email addresses, usernames, purchases, latitudes and longitudes, dates of birth and bcrypt password hashes.
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Special K Data Feed Spam List
October 7, 2015
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[ leak ]
In mid to late 2015, a spam list known as the Special K Data Feed was discovered containing almost 31M identities. The data includes personal attributes such as names, physical and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and phone numbers. Read more about spam lists in HIBP.
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NemoWeb
September 4, 2016
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2016, almost 21GB of data from the French website used for "standardised and decentralized means of exchange for publishing newsgroup articles" NemoWeb was leaked from what appears to have been an unprotected Mongo DB. The data consisted of a large volume of emails sent to the service and included almost 3.5M unique addresses, albeit many of them auto-generated. Multiple attempts were made to contact the operators of NemoWeb but no response was received.
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Mappery
December 11, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2018, the mapping website Mappery suffered a data breach that exposed over 205k unique email addresses. The incident also exposed usernames, the geographic location of the user and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes. No response was received from Mappery when contacted about the incident.
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German Doner Kebab
March 27, 2025
In March 2025, data allegedly sourced from German Doner Kebab was published on a popular hacking forum. The data included 162k unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and physical addresses. German Doner Kebab subsequently sent a disclosure notice to impacted individuals.
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Blooms Today
November 11, 2023
In April 2024, 15M records from the online florist Blooms Today were listed for sale on a popular hacking forum. The most recent data in the breach corpus was from November 2023 and appeared alongside 3.2M unique email addresses, names, phone numbers physical addresses and partial credit card data (card type, 4 digits of the number and expiry date). The breach did not expose sufficient card data to make purchases. Blooms Today did not respond when contacted about the incident.
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The Kodi Foundation
February 16, 2023
In February 2023, The Kodi Foundation suffered a data breach that exposed more than 400k user records. Attributed to an account belonging to "a trusted but currently inactive member of the forum admin team", the breach involved the administrator account creating a database backup that was subsequently downloaded before being sold on a hacking forum. The breach exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, genders and passwords stored as MyBB salted hashes. The Kodi Foundation elected to self-submit impacted email addresses to HIBP.
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17
April 19, 2016
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[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2016, customer data obtained from the streaming app known as "17" appeared listed for sale on a Tor hidden service marketplace. The data contained over 4 million unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
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Win7Vista Forum
September 3, 2013
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
In September 2013, the Win7Vista Windows forum (since renamed to the "Beyond Windows 9" forum) was hacked and later had its internal database dumped. The dump included over 200k members personal information and other internal data extracted from the forum.
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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.
