University of Central Florida
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
University of California, Berkeley
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
Lifeboat
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In January 2016, the Minecraft community known as Lifeboat was hacked and more than 7 million accounts leaked. Lifeboat knew of the incident for three months before the breach was made public but elected not to advise customers. The leaked data included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as straight MD5 hashes.
Central Coast Credit Union
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
hacked
XPG
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately early 2016, the gaming website Xpgamesaves (XPG) suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 890k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory. This data was provided by security researcher and data analyst, Adam Davies.
