Wattpad
June 29, 2020
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In June 2020, the user-generated stories website Wattpad suffered a huge data breach that exposed almost 270 million records. The data was initially sold then published on a public hacking forum where it was broadly shared. The incident exposed extensive personal information including names and usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
Vianet
April 8, 2020
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In April 2020, the Nepalese internet service provider Vianet suffered a data breach. The attack on the ISP led to the exposure of 177k customer records including 94k unique email addresses. Also exposed were names, phone numbers and physical addresses.
Truth Finder
April 12, 2019
•[ leak, technology ]
In 2019, the public records search service TruthFinder suffered a data breach that later came to light in early 2023. The data included over 8M unique customer email addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as scrypt hashes.
Tangerine
February 18, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2024, the Australian Telco Tangerine suffered a data breach that exposed over 200k customer records. Attributed to a legacy customer database, the data included physical and email addresses, names, phone numbers and dates of birth. Whilst the Tangerine login process involves sending a one-time password after entering an email address and phone number, it previously used a traditional password which was also exposed as a bcrypt hash.
Market Moveis
August 30, 2023
•[ leak, retail ]
In August 2023, the Portuguese home decor company Market Moveis suffered a data breach that impacted 28k records. The exposed records were limited to names and email addresses.
Manga Traders
June 9, 2014
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2014, the Manga trading website Mangatraders.com had the usernames and passwords of over 900k users leaked on the internet (approximately 855k of the emails were unique). The passwords were weakly hashed with a single iteration of MD5 leaving them vulnerable to being easily cracked.
CheapAssGamer.com
July 1, 2015
•[ leak, sqlinjection, technology ]
In approximately mid-2015, the forum for CheapAssGamer.com suffered a data breach. The database from the IP.Board based forum contained 445k accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
Ordine Avvocati di Roma
May 7, 2019
•[ leak, government ]
In May 2019, the Lawyers Order of Rome suffered a data breach by a group claiming to be Anonymous Italy. Data on tens of thousands of Roman lawyers was taken from the breached system and redistributed online. The data included contact information, email addresses and email messages themselves encompassing tens of thousands of unique email addresses. A total of 42k unique addresses appeared in the breach.
Twitter (200M)
January 1, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
SwordFantasy
January 20, 2017
•[ leak, technology ]
In January 2019, the now defunct MMO and RPG game SwordFantasy suffered a data breach that exposed 2.7M unique email addresses. Other impacted data included username, IP address and salted MD5 password hashes.
SuperDraft
October 27, 2024
•[ leak, technology ]
In October 2024, the fantasy sports platform SuperDraft suffered a data breach that exposed over 300k customer records. The breach contained 24GB of data including email addresses, usernames, transactions, latitudes and longitudes, dates of birth and bcrypt password hashes.
Victory Phones
January 1, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2017, the automated telephony services company Victory Phones left a Mongo DB database publicly facing without a password. Subsequently, 213GB of data was downloaded by an unauthorised party including names, addresses, phone numbers and over 166k unique email addresses.
LBB
February 14, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In August 2022, customer data of the Indian shopping site "LBB" (Little Black Book) was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained over 3M records with 39k unique email addresses alongside IP and physical addresses, names and device information with the most recent data dating back to early 2019. LBB advised they believe the data was exposed by a third party service and whilst it contained information they retain on their customers, it had also been enriched with additional data attributes.
Go Games
October 24, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately October 2015, the manga website Go Games suffered a data breach. The exposed data included 3.4M customer records including email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Go Games did not respond when contacted about the incident. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
ai.type
December 5, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2017, the virtual keyboard application ai.type was found to have left a huge amount of data publicly facing in an unsecured MongoDB instance. Discovered by researchers at The Kromtech Security Center, the 577GB data set included extensive personal information including over 20 million unique email addresses, social media profiles and address book contacts. The email addresses alone were provided to HIBP to enable impacted users to assess their exposure.
Dodonew.com
December 1, 2011
•[ leak ]
In late 2011, data was allegedly obtained from the Chinese website known as Dodonew.com and contained 8.7M accounts. 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 user names. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
Stronghold Kingdoms
July 4, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2018, the massive multiplayer online game Stronghold Kingdoms suffered a data breach. Almost 5.2 million accounts were impacted by the incident which exposed emails addresses, usernames 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".
SpyFone
August 16, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2018, the spyware company SpyFone left terabytes of data publicly exposed. Collected surreptitiously whilst the targets were using their devices, the data included photos, audio recordings, text messages and browsing history which were then exposed via a number of misconfigurations within SpyFone's systems. The data belonged the thousands of SpyFone customers and included 44k unique email addresses, many likely belonging to people the targeted phones had contact with.
MySpace
July 1, 2008
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2008, MySpace suffered a data breach that exposed almost 360 million accounts. In May 2016 the data was offered up for sale on the "Real Deal" dark market website and included email addresses, usernames and SHA1 hashes of the first 10 characters of the password converted to lowercase and stored without a salt. The exact breach date is unknown, but analysis of the data suggests it was 8 years before being made public.
Glofox
March 27, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2020, the Irish gym management software company Glofox suffered a data breach which exposed 2.3M membership records. The data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
