Elance
January 1, 2009
•[ leak, malware, technology ]
Sometime in 2009, staffing platform Elance suffered a data breach that impacted 1.3 million accounts. Appearing online 8 years later, the data contained usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and SHA1 hashes of passwords, amongst other personal data.
Money Bookers
January 1, 2009
•[ leak, finance ]
Sometime in 2009, the e-wallet service known as Money Bookers suffered a data breach which exposed almost 4.5M customers. Now called Skrill, the breach was not discovered until October 2015 and included names, email addresses, home addresses and IP addresses.
United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal
January 1, 2009
University of California, Berkeley
January 1, 2009
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
U.S. Department of Defense
January 1, 2009
•[ government ]
lost / stolen media
National Archives and Records Administration (U.S. military veterans records)
January 1, 2009
•[ leak, government ]
lost / stolen media
National Guard of the United States
January 1, 2009
•[ leak, government ]
lost / stolen computer
Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program
January 1, 2009
•[ hack, healthcare ]
hacked
Baby Names
October 24, 2008
•[ leak ]
In approximately 2008, the site to help parents name their children known as Baby Names suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 846k email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. When contacted in October 2018, Baby Names advised that "the breach happened at least ten years ago" and that members were notified at the time.