Recent Breaches
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June 2, 2011 • In 2011, Sony suffered breach after breach after breach — it was a very bad year for them. The breaches spanned various areas of the business ranging from the PlayStation network all the way through to the motion picture arm, Sony Pictures. A SQL Injection vulnerability in sonypictures.com lead to tens of thousands of accounts across multiple systems being exposed complete with plain text passwords.
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June 1, 2011 • In mid-2011, the Russian instant messaging service known as QIP (Quiet Internet Pager) suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of over 26 million unique accounts including email addresses and passwords with the data eventually appearing in public years later.
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June 1, 2011 • In 2011, the Chinese e-commerce site Dangdang suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 4.8 million unique email addresses which were subsequently traded online over the ensuing years.
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March 10, 2011 • In 2011, the self-proclaimed "World's Best Adult Social Network" website known as Fling was hacked and more than 40 million accounts obtained by the attacker. The breached data included highly sensitive personal attributes such as sexual orientation and sexual interests as well as email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
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January 1, 2011 • In approximately 2011, data was allegedly obtained from the Chinese gaming website known as Duowan.com and contained 2.6M accounts. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains email addresses, user names and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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January 1, 2011 • In approximately 2011, an alleged breach of the dating website Zoosk began circulating. Comprised of almost 53 million records, the data contained email addresses and plain text passwords. However, during extensive verification in May 2016 no evidence could be found that the data was indeed sourced from the dating service. This breach has consequently been flagged as fabricated; it's highly unlikely the data was sourced from Zoosk.
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January 1, 2011 • In approximately 2011, it's alleged that the Chinese gaming site known as 7k7k suffered a data breach that impacted 9.1 million subscribers. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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January 1, 2011 • hacked with a trojan
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January 1, 2011 • hacked
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January 1, 2011 • hacked
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January 1, 2011 • accidentally published
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January 1, 2011 lost / stolen computer
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January 1, 2011 • hacked
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January 1, 2011 • accidentally published
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January 1, 2011 • accidentally published
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January 1, 2011 • hacked
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January 1, 2011 • hacked
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January 1, 2011 • hacked
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January 1, 2011 • hacked
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January 1, 2011 • lost / stolen computer