Android Forums
October 30, 2011
•[ hack, technology ]
In October 2011, the Android Forums website was hacked and 745k user accounts were subsequently leaked publicly. The compromised data included email addresses, user birth dates and passwords stored as a salted MD5 hash.
Yahoo
July 11, 2012
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In July 2012, Yahoo! had their online publishing service "Voices" compromised via a SQL injection attack. The breach resulted in the disclosure of nearly half a million usernames and passwords stored in plain text. The breach showed that of the compromised accounts, a staggering 59% of people who also had accounts in the Sony breach reused their passwords across both services.
Battlefield Heroes
June 26, 2011
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2011 as part of a final breached data dump, the hacker collective "LulzSec" obtained and released over half a million usernames and passwords from the game Battlefield Heroes. The passwords were stored as MD5 hashes with no salt and many were easily converted back to their plain text versions.
Team SoloMid
December 22, 2014
•[ hack, leak ]
In December 2014, the electronic sports organisation known as Team SoloMid was hacked and 442k members accounts were leaked. The accounts included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted hashes of passwords.
OVH
May 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2015, the forum for the hosting provider known as OVH suffered a data breach. The vBulletin forum contained 453k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
126
January 1, 2012
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2012, it's alleged that the Chinese email service known as 126 suffered a data breach that impacted 6.4 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 email addresses and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
PPCGeeks
August 19, 2016
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In August 2016, the pocket PC fan site forum PPCGeeks suffered a data breach that exposed over 490k records. The breach of the vBulletin forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "fall1984@protonmail.com".
KnownCircle
April 12, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately April 2016, the "marketing automation for agents and professional service providers" company KnownCircle had a large volume of data obtained by an external party. The data belonging to the now defunct service appeared in JSON format and contained gigabytes of data related to the real estate and insurance sectors. The personal data in the breach appears to have primarily been used for marketing purposes, including logs of emails sent and tracking of gift cards. A small number of passwords for KnownCircle staff were also present and were stored as bcrypt hashes.
Oxfam
January 20, 2021
•[ hack ]
In January 2021, Oxfam Australia was the victim of a data breach which exposed 1.8M unique email addresses of supporters of the charity. The data was put up for sale on a popular hacking forum and also included names, phone numbers, addresses, genders and dates of birth. A small number of people also had partial credit card data exposed (the first 6 and last 3 digits of the card, plus card type and expiry) and in some cases the bank name, account number and BSB were also exposed. The data was subsequently made freely available on the hacking forum later the following month.
Malwarebytes
November 15, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2014, the Malwarebytes forum was hacked and 111k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Bot of Legends
November 13, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In November 2014, the forum for Bot of Legends suffered a data breach. The IP.Board forum contained 238k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Spirol
February 22, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, manufacturing ]
In February 2014, Connecticut based Spirol Fastening Solutions suffered a data breach that exposed over 70,000 customer records. The attack was allegedly mounted by exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability which yielded data from Spirols CRM system ranging from customers names, companies, contact information and over 55,000 unique email addresses.
HTC Mania
January 4, 2020
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In January 2020, the Spanish mobile phone forum HTC Mania suffered a data breach of the vBulletin based site. The incident exposed 1.5M member email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes and password histories. Data from the breach was subsequently redistributed on popular hacking websites.
Unico Campania
August 19, 2020
•[ hack ]
In August 2020, the Neapolitan public transport website Unico Campania was hacked and the data extensively circulated. The breach contained 166k user records with email addresses and plain text passwords.
ClixSense
September 4, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2016, the paid-to-click site ClixSense suffered a data breach which exposed 2.4 million subscriber identities. The breached data was then posted online by the attackers who claimed it was a subset of a larger data breach totalling 6.6 million records. The leaked data was extensive and included names, physical, email and IP addresses, genders and birth dates, account balances and passwords stored as plain text.
AnimeGame
February 27, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
In February 2020, the gaming website AnimeGame suffered a data breach. The incident affected 1.4M subscribers and exposed email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
VK
January 1, 2012
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately 2012, the Russian social media site known as VK was hacked and almost 100 million accounts were exposed. The data emerged in June 2016 where it was being sold via a dark market website and included names, phone numbers email addresses and plain text passwords.
SitePoint
June 20, 2020
•[ hack, technology ]
In June 2020, the web development site SitePoint suffered a data breach that exposed over 1M customer records. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, names, usernames, bios and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
LDLC
February 28, 2024
•[ hack, retail ]
In March 2024, French retailer LDLC disclosed a data breach that impacted customers of their physical stores. The data was previously listed for sale on a popular hacking forum and contained 1.26M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
Chegg
April 28, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
In April 2018, the textbook rental service Chegg suffered a data breach that impacted 40 million subscribers. The exposed data included email addresses, usernames, names and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. A small number of records also contained physical address or phone number. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
