V-Tight Gel
February 13, 2016
•[ leak, healthcare ]
In approximately February 2016, data surfaced which was allegedly obtained from V-Tight Gel (vaginal tightening gel). Whilst the data set was titled V-Tight, within there were 50 other (predominantly wellness-related) domain names, most owned by the same entity. Multiple HIBP subscribers confirmed that although they couldn't recall providing data specifically to V-Tight, their personal information including name, phone and physical address was accurate. V-Tight Gel did not reply to multiple requests for comment.
Universarium
November 1, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In approximately November 2019, the Russian "Remote preparatory faculty for IT specialties" Universarium suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 565k email addresses and passwords in plain text. Universarium did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact over a period of many weeks. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Gemini
December 13, 2022
•[ leak, phishing, finance ]
In late 2022, data allegedly taken from the Gemini crypto exchange was posted to a public hacking forum. The data consisted of email addresses and partial phone numbers, which Gemini later attributed to an incident at a third-party vendor (the vendor was not named). The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "ZAN @ BF".
Zurich
January 8, 2023
•[ leak, finance ]
In January 2023, the Japanese arm of Zurich insurance suffered a data breach that exposed 2.6M customer records with over 756k unique email addresses. The data was subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum and also included names, genders, dates of birth and details of insured vehicles. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "IntelBroker".
Wiener Büchereien
June 10, 2019
•[ hack, leak, government ]
In June 2019, the library of Vienna (Wiener Bchereien) suffered a data breach. The compromised data included 224k unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. The breached data was subsequently posted to Twitter by the alleged perpetrator of the breach.
WedMeGood
January 6, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, the Indian wedding planning platform WedMeGood suffered a data breach that exposed 1.3 million customers. The breach exposed 41.5GB of data including email and physical addresses, names, genders, phone numbers and password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Not Acxiom
June 21, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2020, a corpus of data containing almost a quarter of a billion records spanning over 400 different fields was misattributed to database marketing company Acxiom and subsequently circulated within the hacking community. On review, Acxiom concluded that "the claims are indeed false and that the data, which has been readily available across multiple environments, does not come from Acxiom and is in no way the subject of an Acxiom breach". The data contained almost 52M unique email addresses.
Life360
March 1, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2024, data scraped from a misconfigured Life360 API was posted online after being obtained several months earlier. The records included 443k unique email addresses and in most cases, corresponding names and phone numbers (some records were null or obfuscated). Life360 promptly notified impacted users after the incident was discovered.
Horse Isle
September 19, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In June 2020 then again in September that same year, Horse Isle "The Secrent Land of Horses" suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 28k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, IP addresses, genders, purchases and plain text passwords. The system also stored and exposed failed password attempts for each user with the password retained in plain text.
Guns and Robots
April 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately April 2016, the gaming website Guns and Robots suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 143k unique records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and SHA-1 password hashes. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
Cross Fire
August 8, 2016
•[ hack, leak ]
In August 2016, the Russian gaming forum known as Cross Fire (or cfire.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 12.8 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Appartoo
March 25, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
In March 2017, the French Flatsharing site known as Appartoo suffered a data breach. The incident exposed an extensive amount of personal information on almost 50k members including email addresses, genders, ages, private messages sent between users of the service and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes. Appartoo advised that all subscribers were notified of the incident in early 2017.
ThisHabbo Forum
January 1, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
In 2014, the ThisHabbo forum (a fan site for Habbo.com, a Finnish social networking site) appeared among a list of compromised sites which has subsequently been removed from the internet. Whilst the actual date of the exploit is not clear, the breached data includes usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted hashes of passwords. A further 584k records were added from a more comprehensive breach file provided in October 2016.
Snail
March 14, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2015, the gaming website Snail suffered a data breach that impacted 1.4 million subscribers. The impacted data included usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
GeniusU
October 2, 2020
•[ leak, education ]
In November 2020, a collection of data breaches were made public including the "Entrepreneur Success Platform", GeniusU. Dating back to the previous month, the data included 1.3M names, email and IP addresses, genders, links to social media profiles and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
devkitPro
February 3, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2019, the devkitPro forum suffered a data breach. The phpBB based forum had 1,508 unique email addresses exposed in the breach alongside forum posts, private messages and passwords stored as weak salted hashes. The data breach was self-submitted to HIBP by the forum operator.
Spoutible
January 31, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2024, Spoutible had 207k records scraped from a misconfigured API that inadvertently returned excessive personal information. The data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses, phone numbers (where provided to the platform), genders and bcrypt password hashes. The incident also exposed 2FA secrets and backup codes along with password reset tokens.
Senior Dating
November 23, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2024, the 40+ dating website Senior Dating suffered a data breach. Attributed to an exposed Firebase database, the breach included extensive personal information on 766k users of the service including email addresses, photos, genders, links to Facebook accounts, dates of birth and precise latitude and longitude, among other personal attributes. The website was shut down after the breach was acknowledged by the site operator in December, along with a breach of the "ladies.com" website run by the same organisation.
2,844 Separate Data Breaches
February 19, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2018, a massive collection of almost 3,000 alleged data breaches was found online. Whilst some of the data had previously been seen in Have I Been Pwned, 2,844 of the files consisting of more than 80 million unique email addresses had not previously been seen. Each file contained both an email address and plain text password and were consequently loaded as a single "unverified" data breach.
Pokémon Negro
October 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately October 2016, the Spanish Pokmon site Pokmon Negro suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of 830k accounts including email and IP addresses along with plain text passwords. Pokmon Negro did not respond when contacted about the breach.
