Final Fantasy Shrine
September 18, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In September 2015, the Final Fantasy discussion forum known as FFShrine was breached and the data dumped publicly. Approximately 620k records were released containing email addresses, IP addresses and salted hashes of passwords.
Famm
October 8, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In late 2020, the Japanese family photos website Famm suffered a data breach that subsequently exposed 1.3M customer records, including 535k unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes.
Catho
March 1, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately March 2020, the Brazilian recruitment website Catho was compromised and subsequently appeared alongside 20 other breached websites listed for sale on a dark web marketplace. The breach included almost 11 million records with 1.2 million unique email addresses. Names, usernames and plain text passwords were also exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw.
GamingMonk
December 2, 2020
•[ leak, technology ]
In December 2020, India's "largest esports community" GamingMonk (since acquired by and redirected to MPL Esports), suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 655k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth and bcrypt password hashes.
Husky Owners
July 4, 2024
•[ hack, leak ]
In July 2024, the Husky Owners forum website was defaced and linked to a breach of user data containing 16k records. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses, dates of birth and time zones.
Zhenai.com
December 21, 2011
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2011, the Chinese dating site known as Zhenai.com suffered a data breach that impacted 5 million subscribers. 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 plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
Polish Credentials
May 29, 2023
•[ leak, malware ]
In May 2023, a credential stuffing list of 6.3M Polish email address and password pairs appeared on a local forum. Likely obtained by malware running on victims' machines, each record included an email address and plain text password alongside the website the credentials were used on. The data included 1.2M unique email addresses.
Lumin PDF
April 1, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2019, the PDF management service Lumin PDF suffered a data breach. The breach wasn't publicly disclosed until September when 15.5M records of user data appeared for download on a popular hacking forum. The data had been left publicly exposed in a MongoDB instance after which Lumin PDF was allegedly been "contacted multiple times, but ignored all the queries". The exposed data included names, email addresses, genders, spoken language and either a bcrypt password hash or Google auth token. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
KomplettFritid
February 1, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In January 2023, the online Norwegian store KomplettFritid was reported as having had a data breach dating back to February 2021. The incident exposed 140k customer records including physical, email and IP addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords. Most passwords were stored as bcrypt hashes with a small number appearing in plain text.
AhaShare.com
May 30, 2013
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2013, the torrent site AhaShare.com suffered a breach which resulted in more than 180k user accounts being published publicly. The breach included a raft of personal information on registered users plus despite assertions of not distributing personally identifiable information, the site also leaked the IP addresses used by the registered identities.
Teespring
April 1, 2020
•[ leak, retail ]
In April 2020, the custom printed apparel website Teespring suffered a data breach that exposed 8.2 million customer records. The data included email addresses, names, geographic locations and social media IDs.
KM.RU
February 29, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In February 2016, the Russian portal and email service KM.RU was the target of an attack which was consequently detailed on Reddit. Allegedly protesting "the foreign policy of Russia in regards to Ukraine", KM.RU was one of several Russian sites in the breach and impacted almost 1.5M accounts including sensitive personal information.
Duowan.com
January 1, 2011
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2011, data was allegedly obtained from the Chinese gaming website known as Duowan.com and contained 2.6M 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, user names and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
CityJerks
February 27, 2023
•[ hack, leak ]
In early 2023, the "mutual masturbation" website CityJerks suffered a data breach that exposed 177k unique email addresses. The breach also included data from the TruckerSucker "dating app for REAL TRUCKERS and REAL MEN" with the combined corpus of data also exposing usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth, sexual orientations, geo locations, private messages between members and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was listed on a public hacking site and provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "discord.gg/gN9C9em".
PetFlow
December 9, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In December 2017, the pet care delivery service PetFlow suffered a data breach which consequently appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace. Almost 1M accounts were impacted and exposed email addresses and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "nano@databases.pw".
People's Energy
December 16, 2020
•[ leak, energy ]
In December 2020, the UK power company People's Energy suffered a data breach. The breach exposed almost 7GB of files containing 359k unique email addresses along with names, phones numbers, physical addresses and dates of birth. The incident also included People's Energy staff email addresses and bcrypt password hashes (no customer passwords were exposed). The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to pom@pompur.in.
Adult-FanFiction.Org
May 30, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2018, the website for sharing adult-orientated works of fiction known as Adult-FanFiction.Org had 186k records exposed in a data breach. The data contained names, email addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as both MD5 hashes and plain text. AFF did not respond when contacted about the breach and the site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
Facebook
August 1, 2019
•[ leak, technology ]
In April 2021, a large data set of over 500 million Facebook users was made freely available for download. Encompassing approximately 20% of Facebook's subscribers, the data was allegedly obtained by exploiting a vulnerability Facebook advises they rectified in August 2019. The primary value of the data is the association of phone numbers to identities; whilst each record included phone, only 2.5 million contained an email address. Most records contained names and genders with many also including dates of birth, location, relationship status and employer.
Teracod
May 28, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In May 2015, almost 100k user records were extracted from the Hungarian torrent site known as Teracod. The data was later discovered being torrented itself and included email addresses, passwords, private messages between members and the peering history of IP addresses using the service.
RankWatch
November 19, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately November 2016, the search engine optimisation management company RankWatch exposed a Mongo DB with no password publicly whereupon their data was exfiltrated and posted to an online forum. The data contained 7.4 million unique email addresses along with names, employers, phone numbers and job titles in a table called "us_emails". When contacted and advised of the incident, RankWatch would not reveal the purpose of the data, where it had been acquired from and whether the data owners had consented to its collection. The forum which originally posted the data explained it as being "in the same vein as the modbsolutions leak", a large list of corporate data allegedly used for spam purposes.
