Raaga
December 15, 2025
•[ data leak ]
In December 2025, data allegedly breached from the Indian streaming music service "Raaga" was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 10M unique email addresses along with names, genders, ages (in some cases, full date of birth), postcodes and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
Pass'Sport
December 17, 2025
•[ data leak ]
In December 2025, data from France's Pass'Sport program was posted to a popular hacking forum. Initially misattributed to CAF (the French family allowance fund), the data contained 6.5M unique email addresses affecting 3.5M households. The data also included names, phone numbers, genders and physical addresses. The Ministry of Sports subsequently released a statement acknowledging the incident.
Instagram
January 7, 2026
•[ data leak, scraping ]
In January 2026, data allegedly scraped via an Instagram API was posted to a popular hacking forum. The dataset contained 17M rows of public Instagram information, including usernames, display names, account IDs, and in some cases, geolocation data. Of these records, 6.2M included an associated email address, and some also contained a phone number. The scraped data appears to be unrelated to password reset requests initiated on the platform, despite coinciding in timeframe. There is no evidence that passwords or other sensitive data were compromised.
BreachForums (2025)
August 11, 2025
•[ data leak, hacking forum, law enforcement action ]
In October 2025, a reincarnation of the hacking forum BreachForums, which had previously been shut down multiple times, was taken offline by a coalition of law enforcement agencies. In the months leading up to the takedown, the site itself suffered a data breach that exposed a total of 672k unique email addresses across all tables, including within forum posts and private messages. The users table alone contained 324k unique email addresses, usernames, and Argon2 password hashes.
BreachForums (2025)
August 11, 2025
•[ data leak, hacking, law enforcement takedown ]
In October 2025, a reincarnation of the hacking forum BreachForums, which had previously been shut down multiple times, was taken offline by a coalition of law enforcement agencies. In the months leading up to the takedown, the site itself suffered a data breach that exposed 324k unique email addresses, usernames, and Argon2 password hashes.
WhiteDate
December 29, 2025
•[ data leak ]
In December 2025, the dating website "for a Europid vision" WhiteDate suffered a data breach that exposed 6k unique email addresses. The breach exposed extensive further personal information including data related to physical appearance, income, education and IQ.
WIRED
September 8, 2025
•[ data leak ]
In December 2025, 2.3M records of WIRED magazine users allegedly obtained from parent company Cond Nast were published online. The most recent data dated back to the previous September and exposed email addresses and display names, as well as, for a small number of users, their name, phone number, date of birth, gender, and geographic location or full physical address. The WIRED data allegedly represents a subset of Cond Nast brands the hacker also claims to have obtained.
Utair
March 21, 2019
•[ data leak ]
In August 2020, news broke of a data breach of Russian airline Utair that dated back to the previous year. The breach contained over 400k unique email addresses along with extensive personal information including names, physical addresses, dates of birth, passport numbers and loyalty program details.
Медицинская лаборатория Гемотест (Gemotest)
April 22, 2022
•[ data leak ]
In April 2022, Russian pharmaceutical company Gemotest suffered a data breach that exposed 31 million patients. The data contained 6.3 million unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, dates of birth, passport and insurance numbers. Gemotest was later fined for the breach.
Web Hosting Talk
July 1, 2016
•[ data leak ]
In July 2016, the Web Hosting Talk forum suffered a data breach that was subsequently listed for sale. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed 515k user records including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
The Botting Network
August 12, 2012
•[ data leak ]
In August 2012, the forum for making money with botting "The Botting Network" suffered a data breach that exposed 96k user records. The now defunct vBulletin forum leaked 96k email addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.
AUTOSUR
March 16, 2025
•[ data leak, phishing ]
In March 2025, the French vehicle inspection company AUTOSUR suffered a data breach exposing over 10M customer records, though only 487k unique email addresses were present. The compromised data included names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and vehicle details such as make and model, VIN, and registration plate. AUTOSUR later issued a disclosure notice with further details.
KinoKong
March 25, 2021
•[ data leak ]
In March 2021, the Russian online streaming service KinoKong suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed over 800k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, IP addresses and MD5 password hashes.
CodeStepByStep
November 15, 2025
•[ data leak ]
In November 2025, the online coding practice tool CodeStepByStep suffered a data breach that exposed 17k records which were subsequently published online. The following month, a further corpus of data was released bringing the total to 103k. The impacted data included names, usernames and email addresses.
Beckett Collectibles
November 9, 2025
•[ data leak, website defacement ]
In November 2025, Beckett Collectibles experienced a data breach accompanied by website content defacement. The stolen data was later advertised for sale on a prominent hacking forum, with portions subsequently released publicly. The publicly circulating data initially included more than 500k email addresses reportedly belonging to North American customers, before a larger corpus of over 1M addresses was published the following month. The impacted data included names, usernames, phone numbers and physical addresses.
Zilvia.net
November 6, 2025
•[ data leak ]
In November 2025, data breached from the Zilvia.net Nissan 240SX Silvia and Z Fairlady car forum was leaked. The breach exposed 288k unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes sourced from the vBulletin based platform. Attempts to contact Zilvia.net about the incident were unsuccessful.
China Software Developer Network
December 21, 2011
•[ data leak ]
In 2011, the China Software Developer Network (CSDN) suffered a data breach that exposed over 6M user records. The data included email addresses alongside usernames and plain text passwords.
CodeStepByStep
November 15, 2025
•[ data leak ]
In November 2025, the online coding practice tool CodeStepByStep suffered a data breach that exposed 17k records. The impacted data included names, usernames and email addresses.
ADDA
March 24, 2025
•[ data leak ]
In March 2025, data allegedly breached from the ADDA housing societies service was posted to a public hacking forum. The data contained over 1.8M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and MD5 password hashes.
International Kiteboarding Organization
November 11, 2025
•[ data leak ]
In November 2025, the International Kiteboarding Organization suffered a data breach that exposed 340k user records. The data was subsequently listed for sale on a hacking forum and included email addresses, names, usernames and in many cases, the user's city and country.
