Yahoo Japan
January 1, 2013
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
Heroes of Newerth
December 17, 2012
•[ hack, technology ]
In December 2012, the multiplayer online battle arena game known as Heroes of Newerth was hacked and over 8 million accounts extracted from the system. The compromised data included usernames, email addresses and passwords.
Lookbook
August 24, 2012
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
In August 2012, the fashion site Lookbook suffered a data breach. The data later appeared listed for sale in June 2016 and included 1.1 million usernames, email and IP addresses, birth dates and plain text passwords.
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.
War Inc.
July 4, 2012
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2012, the real-time strategy game War Inc. suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the exposure of over 1 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.