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Bulgarian National Revenue Agency
July 15, 2019
In July 2019, a massive data breach of the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency began circulating with data on 5 million people. Allegedly obtained in June, the data was broadly shared online and included taxation information alongside names, phone numbers, physical addresses and 471 thousand unique email addresses. The breach is said to have affected "nearly all adults in Bulgaria".
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Wife Lovers
October 7, 2018
In October 2018, the site dedicated to posting naked photos and other erotica of wives Wife Lovers suffered a data breach. The underlying database supported a total of 8 different adult websites and contained over 1.2M unique email addresses. Wife Lovers acknowledged the breach which impacted names, usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords hashed using the weak DEScrypt algorithm. The breach has been marked as "sensitive" due to the nature of the site.
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SpyX
June 24, 2024
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[ leak, malware, technology ]
In June 2024, spyware maker SpyX suffered a data breach that exposed almost 2M unique email addresses. The breach also exposed IP addresses, countries of residence, device information and 6-digit PINs in the password field. Further, a collection of iCloud credentials likely used to monitor targets directly via the cloud were also in the breach and contained the target's email address and plain text Apple password.
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Roll20
December 26, 2018
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[ hack, technology ]
In December 2018, the tabletop role-playing games website Roll20 suffered a data breach. Almost 4 million customers were impacted by the breach and had email and IP addresses, names, bcrypt hashes of passwords and the last 4 digits of credit cards exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
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MALL.cz
July 27, 2017
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[ leak, brute-force, retail ]
In July 2017, the Czech Republic e-commerce site MALL.cz suffered a data breach after which 735k unique accounts including email addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords were later posted online. Whilst passwords were stored as hashes, a number of different algorithms of varying strength were used over time. All passwords included in the publicly distributed data were in plain text and were likely just those that had been successfully cracked (members with strong passwords don't appear to be included). According to MALL.cz, the breach only impacted accounts created before 2015.
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Hemmakväll
July 8, 2015
In July 2015, the Swedish video store chain Hemmakvll was hacked and nearly 50k records dumped publicly. The disclosed data included various attributes of their customers including email and physical addresses, names and phone numbers. Passwords were also leaked, stored with a weak MD5 hashing algorithm.
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B2B USA Businesses
July 18, 2017
In mid-2017, a spam list of over 105 million individuals in corporate America was discovered online. Referred to as "B2B USA Businesses", the list categorised email addresses by employer, providing information on individuals' job titles plus their work phone numbers and physical addresses. Read more about spam lists in HIBP.
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TheGradCafe
February 26, 2023
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[ leak, education ]
In February 2023, the grad school admissions search website TheGradCafe suffered a data breach that disclosed the personal records of 310k users. The data included email addresses, names and usernames, genders, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Some records also included physical address, phone number and date of birth. TheGradCafe did not respond to multiple attempts to disclose the breach.
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PHP Freaks
October 27, 2015
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[ hack, leak, technology ]
In October 2015, the PHP discussion board PHP Freaks was hacked and 173k user accounts were publicly leaked. The breach included multiple personal data attributes as well as salted and hashed passwords.
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Boulanger
September 6, 2024
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[ hack, leak, retail ]
In September 2024, French electronics retailer Boulanger suffered a data breach that exposed over 27M rows of data. The data included 2M 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. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "leidhall".
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Young Living Essential Oils
December 11, 2024
In December 2024, data claimed to be breached from the multi-level marketing company Young Living Essential Oils was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 1.1M unique email addresses alongside names, the country of the account and in many cases, their date of birth. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "Threat Actor 888". Young Living Essential Oils did not respond to multiple attempts to contact them about the data.
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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.
