Спрашивай.ру
May 11, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In May 2015, . (a the Russian website for anonymous reviews) was reported to have had 6.7 million user details exposed by a hacker known as "w0rm". Intended to be a site for expressing anonymous opinions, the leaked data included email addresses, birth dates and other personally identifiable data about almost 3.5 million unique email addresses found in the leak.
MyPertamina
November 1, 2022
•[ leak, energy ]
In November 2022, the Indonesian oil and gas company Pertamina suffered a data breach of their MyPertamina service. The incident exposed 44M records with 6M unique email addresses along with names, dates of birth, genders, physical addresses and purchases.
Hjedd
July 18, 2022
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2022, the Chinese adult website Hjedd was found to be leaking more than 13M customer records which subsequently appeared on a popular hacking forum. The exposed data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
GameSprite
December 17, 2019
•[ leak, technology ]
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming platform GameSprite suffered a data breach that exposed over 6M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
FNTECH
July 4, 2024
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2024, the events management platform FNTECH suffered a data breach that exposed 10k unique email addresses. The data contained registrants from various events, including participants of the Roblox Developer Conference registration list. The data also included names and IP addresses.
Brand New Tube
August 14, 2022
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2022, the streaming website Brand New Tube suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of almost 350k subscribers. The impacted data included email and IP addresses, usernames, genders, passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes and private messages.
Artvalue
June 19, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In June 2019, the France-based art valuation website Artvalue.com left their 158k member subscriber base publicly exposed in a text file on their website. The exposed data included names, usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The site operator did not respond when contacted about the incident, although the exposed file was subsequently removed.
ApexSMS
April 15, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2019, news broke of a massive SMS spam operation known as "ApexSMS" which was discovered after a MongoDB instance of the same name was found exposed without a password. The incident leaked over 80M records with 23M unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and carriers, geographic locations (state and country), genders and IP addresses.
Switch
October 1, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2024, the Hungarian IT headhunting service Switch inadvertently exposed thousands of customer records via a public GitHub repository. The exposed data contained job applications with names, email addresses and in some cases, commentary on the applicant.
Edmodo
May 11, 2017
•[ leak, hack, education ]
In May 2017, the education platform Edmodo was hacked resulting in the exposure of 77 million records comprised of over 43 million unique customer email addresses. The data was consequently published to a popular hacking forum and made freely available. The records in the breach included usernames, email addresses and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
Thingiverse
October 13, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2021, a database backup taken from the 3D model sharing service Thingiverse began extensively circulating within the hacking community. Dating back to October 2020, the 36GB file contained 228 thousand unique email addresses, mostly alongside comments left on 3D models. The data also included usernames, IP addresses, full names and passwords stored as either unsalted SHA-1 or bcrypt hashes. In some cases, physical addresses was also exposed. Thingiverse's owner, MakerBot, is aware of the incident but at the time of writing, is yet to issue a disclosure statement. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
SurveyLama
February 1, 2024
•[ leak, technology ]
In February 2024, the paid survey website SurveyLama suffered a data breach that exposed 4.4M customer email addresses. The incident also exposed names, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as either salted SHA-1, bcrypt or argon2 hashes. When contacted about the incident, SurveyLama advised that they had already "notified the users by email".
Straffic
February 14, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2020, Israeli marketing company Straffic exposed a database with 140GB of personal data. The publicly accessible Elasticsearch database contained over 300M rows with 49M unique email addresses. Exposed data also included names, phone numbers, physical addresses and genders. In their breach disclosure message, Straffic stated that "it is impossible to create a totally immune system, and these things can occur".
Sephora
January 9, 2017
•[ leak, retail ]
In approximately January 2017, the beauty store Sephora suffered a data breach. Impacting customers in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, 780k unique email addresses were included in the breach alongside names, genders, dates of birth, ethnicities and other personal information. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
Linux Forums
May 1, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2018, the Linux Forums website suffered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 276k unique email addresses. Running on an old version of vBulletin, the breach also disclosed usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. Linux Forums did not respond to multiple attempts to contact them about the breach.
Lead Hunter
March 4, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In March 2020, a massive trove of personal information referred to as "Lead Hunter" was provided to HIBP after being found left exposed on a publicly facing Elasticsearch server. The data contained 69 million unique email addresses across 110 million rows of data accompanied by additional personal information including names, phone numbers, genders and physical addresses. At the time of publishing, the breach could not be attributed to those responsible for obtaining and exposing it. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
HauteLook
August 7, 2018
•[ leak, retail ]
In mid-2018, the fashion shopping site HauteLook was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included over 28 million unique email addresses alongside names, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Anti Public Combo List
December 16, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In December 2016, a huge list of email address and password pairs appeared in a "combo list" referred to as "Anti Public". The list contained 458 million unique email addresses, many with multiple different passwords hacked from various online systems. The list was broadly circulated and used for "credential stuffing", that is attackers employ it in an attempt to identify other online systems where the account owner had reused their password. For detailed background on this incident, read Password reuse, credential stuffing and another billion records in Have I Been Pwned.
Welhof
August 14, 2024
•[ leak, retail ]
In August 2024, the Dutch appliance store Welhof suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 100k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses and the value of purchases made. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
NetProspex
September 1, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2016, a list of over 33 million individuals in corporate America sourced from Dun & Bradstreet's NetProspex service was leaked online. D&B believe the targeted marketing data was lost by a customer who purchased it from them. It contained extensive personal and corporate information including names, email addresses, job titles and general information about the employer.