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Tout
September 11, 2014
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[ leak, technology ]
In approximately September 2014, the now defunct social networking service Tout suffered a data breach. The breach subsequently appeared years later and included 653k unique email addresses, names, IP addresses, the location of the user, their bio and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "nmapthis@protonmail.com".
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Muah.AI
September 17, 2024
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[ leak, technology ]
In September 2024, the "AI girlfriend" website Muah.AI suffered a data breach. The breach exposed 1.9M email addresses alongside prompts to generate AI-based images. Many of the prompts were highly sexual in nature, with many also describing child exploitation scenarios.
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Mate1.com
February 29, 2016
In February 2016, the dating site mate1.com suffered a huge data breach resulting in the disclosure of over 27 million subscribers' information. The data included deeply personal information about their private lives including drug and alcohol habits, incomes levels and sexual fetishes as well as passwords stored in plain text.
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Knuddels
September 5, 2018
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2018, the German social media website Knuddels suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 808k unique email addresses alongside usernames, real names, the city of the person and their password in plain text. Knuddels was subsequently fined 20k for the breach.
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Havenly
June 25, 2020
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[ leak, retail ]
In June 2020, the interior design website Havenly suffered a data breach which impacted almost 1.4 million members of the service. The exposed data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations and passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes, all of which was subsequently shared extensively throughout online hacking communities. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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GiveSendGo
February 7, 2022
In February 2022, the Christian fundraising service GiveSendGo suffered a data breach which exposed the personal data of 90k donors to the Canadian "Freedom Convoy" protest against vaccine mandates. The breach exposed names, email addresses, post codes, donation amount and comments left at the time of donation.
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DemandScience by Pure Incubation
February 28, 2024
In early 2024, a large corpus of data from DemandScience (a company owned by Pure Incubation), appeared for sale on a popular hacking forum. Later attributed to a leak from a decommissioned legacy system, the breach contained extensive data that was largely business contact information aggregated from public sources. Specifically, the data included 122M unique corporate email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, employers and job titles. It also included names and for many individuals, a link to their LinkedIn profile.
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Data & Leads
November 14, 2018
In November 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko identified an unprotected database believed to be hosted by a data aggregator. Upon further investigation, the data was linked to marketing company Data & Leads. The exposed Elasticsearch instance contained over 44M unique email addresses along with names, IP and physical addresses, phone numbers and employment information. No response was received from Data & Leads when contacted by Bob and their site subsequently went offline.
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Chris Leong
August 10, 2024
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
In August 2024, the website of Master Chris Leong "a leading Tit Tar practitioner in Malaysia" suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 27k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders, nationalities and in many cases, links to Facebook profiles. The company did not respond when contacted about the breach.
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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.
