Insanelyi
July 22, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2014, the iOS forum Insanelyi was hacked by an attacker known as Kim Jong-Cracks. A popular source of information for users of jailbroken iOS devices running Cydia, the Insanelyi breach disclosed over 104k users' emails addresses, user names and weakly hashed passwords (salted MD5).
Tuned Global
March 16, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, data from a number of breached services including Tuned Global were released to a public hacking forum. The breach appears to date back to 2016 and includes 985k records containing email addresses, names, a small number of physical addresses and phone numbers and passwords stored in plain text.
Armor Games
January 1, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In January 2019, the game portal website Armor Games suffered a data breach. A total of 10.6 million email addresses were impacted by the breach which also exposed usernames, IP addresses, birthdays of administrator accounts and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
Boxee
March 29, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.
IIMJobs
December 31, 2018
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In December 2018, the Indian job portal IIMJobs suffered a data breach that exposed 4.1 million unique email addresses. The data also included names, phone numbers, geographic locations, dates of birth, job titles, job applications and cover letters plus passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
iD Tech
January 3, 2023
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In February 2023, the tech camps for kids service iD Tech had almost 1M records posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 415k unique email addresses, names, dates of birth and plain text passwords which appear to have been breached in the previous month. iD Tech did not respond to multiple attempts to report the incident.
GameSalad
February 24, 2019
•[ hack, education ]
In February 2019, the education and game creation website Game Salad suffered a data breach. The incident impacted 1.5M accounts and exposed email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
CTARS
May 21, 2021
•[ leak, hack, misconfiguration ]
In May 2022, the client management system for the Australian government's NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) suffered a data breach which was subsequently posted to an online hacking forum. The CTARS cloud platform is used by care providers to record information about NDIS participants and often contains sensitive medical information. Impacted data includes over 12k unique email addresses, physical addresses, names, dates of birth, phone numbers and data related to patient conditions and treatments.
Protemps
October 4, 2021
•[ hack, md5, technology ]
In October 2021, the Singaporean recruitment website Protemps suffered a data breach that exposed almost 50,000 unique email addresses. The impacted data includes names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, passport numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes, among troves of other jobseeker data. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
Nexus Mods
July 22, 2013
•[ hack, technology ]
In December 2015, the game modding site Nexus Mods released a statement notifying users that they had been hacked. They subsequently dated the hack as having occurred in July 2013 although there is evidence to suggest the data was being traded months in advance of that. The breach contained usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as a salted hashes.
VNG
May 19, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2018, news broke of a massive data breach impacting the Vietnamese company known as VNG after data was discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum where it was extensively redistributed. The breach dated back to an incident in May of 2015 and included of over 163 million customers. The data in the breach contained a wide range of personal attributes including usernames, birth dates, genders and home addresses along with unsalted MD5 hashes and 25 million unique email addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
ProctorU
June 26, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
In June 2020, the online exam service ProctorU suffered a data breach which was subsequently shared extensively across online hacking communities. The breach contained 444k user records including names, email and physical addresses, phones numbers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw.
ToonDoo
August 21, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In August 2019, the comic strip creation website ToonDoo suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum in November where the personal information of over 6M subscribers was shared. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, usernames, genders, the location of the individual and salted password hashes.
Government Websites and Private Companies in South Korea
November 8, 2024
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Pro-Russian hacktivists target South Korea with DDoS attacks as North Korea joins the Ukraine war.
Microlise
November 6, 2024
•[ hack, government ]
A cyberattack on Microlise leaves British prison vans without tracking systems or panic alarms.
Multiple organizations
August 15, 2024
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Researchers at Sysdig discover a large-scale malicious operation named "EmeraldWhale" scanning for exposed Git configuration files to steal over 15,000 cloud account credentials from thousands of private repositories.
American Heart of Poland
November 28, 2024
•[ hack, healthcare ]
American Heart of Poland receives a fine of 330,000, after suffering a hacking incident.
Tver Administration's Network
October 29, 2024
•[ hack, malware, government ]
A group with the moniker of Ukrainian Cyber Alliance claims to have taken down the Tver administration's network and to have wiped out dozens of virtual machines, backup storage, websites, email, and hundreds of workstations.
Sensitive government and police databases in Italy
October 25, 2024
•[ hack, espionage, government ]
Four people are arrested in Italy after a business intelligence company called Equalize is accused of hacking sensitive government and police databases to create dossiers for its clients.
Landmark Admin
May 13, 2024
•[ leak, hack, government ]
Insurance administrative services company Landmark Admin warns that a data breach impacted over 800,000 people from a May cyberattack.
