PoinCampus
November 14, 2024
•[ leak, education ]
In November 2024, the South Korean education platform PoinCampus suffered a data breach which was later published to a popular hacking forum. The data included 89k unique email addresses, names and a small number of phone numbers and dates of birth. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "Threat Actor 888".
Intelimost
March 10, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In March 2019, a spam operation known as "Intelimost" sent millions of emails appearing to come from people the recipients knew. Security researcher Bob Diachenko found over 3 million unique email addresses in an exposed Elasticsearch database, alongside plain text passwords used to access the victim's mailbox and customise the spam.
Advance Auto Parts
June 5, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In June 2024, Advance Auto Parts confirmed they had suffered a data breach which was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum. Linked to unauthorised access to Snowflake cloud services, the breach exposed a large number of records related to both customers and employees. In total, 79M unique email addresses were included in the breach, alongside names, phone numbers, addresses and further data attributes related to company employees.
Zoosk (2011)
January 1, 2011
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2011, an alleged breach of the dating website Zoosk began circulating. Comprised of almost 53 million records, the data contained email addresses and plain text passwords. However, during extensive verification in May 2016 no evidence could be found that the data was indeed sourced from the dating service. This breach has consequently been flagged as fabricated; it's highly unlikely the data was sourced from Zoosk.
uuu9
September 6, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In September 2016, data was allegedly obtained from the Chinese website known as uuu9.com and contained 7.5M 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.
Travel Oklahoma
December 17, 2020
•[ leak, government ]
In December 2020, the Oklahoma state Tourism and Recreation Department suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 637k email addresses across a variety of tables including age ranges against brochure orders and dates of birth against contest entries. Genders, names and physical addresses were also exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "badhou3a".
MyFHA
February 18, 2015
•[ leak, finance ]
In approximately February 2015, the home financing website MyFHA suffered a data breach which disclosed the personal information of nearly 1 million people. The data included extensive personal information relating to home financing including personal contact info, credit statuses, household incomes, loan amounts and notes on personal circumstances, often referring to legal issues, divorces and health conditions. Multiple parties contacted HIBP with the data after which MyFHA was alerted in mid-July and acknowledged the legitimacy of the breach then took the site offline.
Indian Railways
October 28, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, government ]
In November 2019, the website for Indian Rail left more than 2M records exposed on an unprotected Firebase database instance. The exposed data included 583k unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored in plain text.
NurseryCam
February 12, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In February 2021, a series of egregiously bad security flaws were identified in the NurseryCam system designed for parents to remotely monitor their children whilst attending nursery. The flaws led to the exposure of over 10k parent records before the service was shut down. The email addresses alone were provided to Have I Been Pwned to ensure parents were properly notified of the incident.
Atlas Quantum
August 25, 2018
•[ leak, finance ]
In August 2018, the cryptocurrency investment platform Atlas Quantum suffered a data breach. The breach leaked the personal data of 261k investors on the platform including their names, phone numbers, email addresses and account balances.
Forbes
February 15, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
In February 2014, the Forbes website succumbed to an attack that leaked over 1 million user accounts. The attack was attributed to the Syrian Electronic Army, allegedly as retribution for a perceived "Hate of Syria". The attack not only leaked user credentials, but also resulted in the posting of fake news stories to forbes.com.
CityBee
February 5, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In February 2021, the Lithuanian car-sharing service CityBee announced they'd suffered a data breach that exposed 110k customers' personal information. The breach exposed names, email addresses, government issued IDs and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes.
Capital Economics
December 12, 2020
•[ leak, finance ]
In December 2020, the economic research company Capital Economics suffered a data breach that exposed 263k customer records. The exposed data included email and physical addresses, names, phone numbers, job titles and the employer of impacted customers.
Soundwave
July 16, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid 2015, the music tracking app Soundwave suffered a data breach. The breach stemmed from an incident whereby "production data had been used to populate the test database" and was then inadvertently exposed in a MongoDB. The data contained 130k records and included email addresses, dates of birth, genders and MD5 hashes of passwords without a salt.
MC2 Data
August 18, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2024, data aggregator MC2 Data left a database publicly accessible without a password which was subsequently discovered by a security researcher. The breach exposed the personal information of 2.1M subscribers to the service which was marketed under a series of different brand names. The data included email addresses, names and salted SHA-256 password hashes.
Fanpass
April 30, 2022
•[ leak, retail ]
In April 2022, the UK based website for buying and selling soccer tickets Fanpass suffered a data breach which exposed 112k customer records. Impacted data includes names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchase histories and salted password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "breaches.net".
Dymocks
June 20, 2023
•[ leak, retail ]
In September 2023, the Australian book retailer Dymocks announced a data breach. The data dated back to June 2023 and contained 1.2M records with 836k unique email addresses. The breach also exposed names, dates of birth, genders, phone numbers and physical addresses.
Digimon
September 5, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2016, over 16GB of logs from a service indicated to be digimon.co.in were obtained, most likely from an unprotected Mongo DB instance. The service ceased running shortly afterwards and no information remains about the precise nature of it. Based on enquiries made via Twitter, it appears to have been a mail service possibly based on PowerMTA and used for delivering spam. The logs contained information including 7.7M unique email recipients (names and addresses), mail server IP addresses, email subjects and tracking information including mail opens and clicks.
Astropid
December 19, 2013
•[ social, leak, forum ]
In December 2013, the vBulletin forum for the social engineering site known as "AstroPID" was breached and leaked publicly. The site provided tips on fraudulently obtaining goods and services, often by providing a legitimate "PID" or Product Information Description. The breach resulted in nearly 6k user accounts and over 220k private messages between forum members being exposed.
Acne.org
November 25, 2014
•[ leak, healthcare ]
In November 2014, the acne website acne.org suffered a data breach that exposed over 430k forum members' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and passwords.
