Pixlr
October 7, 2020
•[ leak, technology ]
In October 2020, the online photo editing application Pixlr suffered a data breach exposing 1.9 million subscribers. Impacted data included names, email addresses, social media profiles, the country signed up from and passwords stored as SHA-512 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
MEO
December 24, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In early 2023, a corpus of data sourced from the New Zealand based face mask company MEO was discovered. Dating back to December 2020, the data contained over 8k customer records including names, addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 Wordpress hashes. MEO did not respond to multiple attempts to report the breach.
7k7k
January 1, 2011
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately 2011, it's alleged that the Chinese gaming site known as 7k7k suffered a data breach that impacted 9.1 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 usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
The Halloween Spot
September 27, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In September 2019, the Halloween costume store The Halloween Spot suffered a data breach. Originally misattributed to fancy dress store Smiffys, the breach contained 13GB of data with over 10k unique email addresses alongside names, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers and order histories. The Halloween Spot advised customers the breach was traced back to "an old shipping information database".
START
June 1, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Russian streaming service "START". The incident led to the exposure of 44M records containing 7.4M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included the subscriber's country and password hash. START subsequently acknowledged the incident in a Telegram post and stated that the data dated back to 2021.
PayAsUGym
December 15, 2016
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In December 2016, an attacker breached PayAsUGym's website exposing over 400k customers' personal data. The data was consequently leaked publicly and broadly distributed via Twitter. The leaked data contained personal information including email addresses and passwords hashed using MD5 without a salt.
GoldSilver
October 21, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In October 2018, the bullion education and dealer services site GoldSilver suffered a data breach that exposed 243k unique email addresses spanning customers and mailing list subscribers. An extensive amount of personal information on customers was obtained including names, addresses, phone numbers, purchases and passwords and answers to security questions stored as MD5 hashes. In a small number of cases, passport, social security numbers and partial credit card data was also exposed. The data breach and source code belonging to GoldSilver was publicly posted on a dark web service where it remained months later. When notified about the incident, GoldSilver advised that "all affected customers have been directly notified".
Condo.com
June 1, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2019, now defunct website Condo.com suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The impacted data included 1.5M email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and for a small number of records, physical addresses.
Money Bookers
January 1, 2009
•[ leak, finance ]
Sometime in 2009, the e-wallet service known as Money Bookers suffered a data breach which exposed almost 4.5M customers. Now called Skrill, the breach was not discovered until October 2015 and included names, email addresses, home addresses and IP addresses.
GTAGaming
August 1, 2016
•[ leak, hack, technology ]
In August 2016, the Grand Theft Auto forum GTAGaming was hacked and nearly 200k user accounts were leaked. The vBulletin based forum included usernames, email addresses and password hashes.
Explore Talent (August 2024)
August 15, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2024, a slew of security vulnerabilities were identified with a conglomerate of online services which included the talent network Explore Talent. A vulnerable API exposed the personal records of 11.4M users of the service of which 8.9M unique email addresses were provided to HIBP. This incident is separate to the Explore Talent breach which occurred in 2022 and was loaded into HIBP in July 2024.
Dennis Kirk
September 4, 2021
•[ leak, retail ]
In October 2024, almost 20GB of data containing 1.3M unique email addresses from motorcycle supplies store Dennis Kirk was circulated. Dating back to September 2021, the data also contained purchases from the online store along with customer names, phone numbers and postcodes. Dennis Kirk did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact about the breach. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "IntelBroker, almighty444 & EnergyWeaponUser".
Anime-Planet
January 1, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2016, the anime website Anime-Planet suffered a data breach that impacted 369k subscribers. The exposed data included usernames, IP and email addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes and for newer accounts, bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Speedio
December 24, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2024, data alleged to have been taken from the Brazilian lead generation platform Speedio was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum. The data was allegedly obtained from an unsecured Elasticsearch instance and contained over 62M records of largely public business information including company names, phone numbers and physical addresses, along with 27M unique email addresses, predominantly from public services such as Gmail and Outlook. Speedio did not respond to multiple attempts to disclose the incident, and the origin of the data could not be independently verified. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "ayame@xmpp.jp".
Republican Party of Texas
September 11, 2021
•[ hack, leak, government ]
In September 2021, the Republican Party of Texas was hacked by a group claiming to be "Anonymous" in retaliation for the state's controversial abortion ban. The September defacement was followed by a leak of data and documents which included material from the hosting provider Epik. Impacted data included over 72 thousand unique email addresses across various tables, some also including names, geographic location data, IP addresses and browser user agents.
Fair Vote Canada
March 2, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, government ]
In March 2024, the Canadian national citizens' campaign for proportional representation Fair Vote Canada suffered a data breach. The incident was attributed to "a well-meaning volunteer" who inadvertently exposed data from 2020 which included 134k unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, phone numbers and, for some individuals, date and amount of a donation.
Avito
November 18, 2022
•[ leak ]
In November 2022, the Moroccan e-commerce service Avito suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 2.7M customers. The data included name, email, phone, IP address and geographic location.
diet.com
August 10, 2014
•[ leak, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
In August 2014, the diet and nutrition website diet.com suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 1.4 million unique user records dating back as far as 2004. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames, plain text passwords and dietary information about the site members including eating habits, BMI and birth date. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
Youku
December 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In late 2016, the online Chinese video service Youku suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 92 million unique user accounts and corresponding MD5 password hashes. The data was contributed to Have I Been Pwned courtesy of rip@creep.im.
VimeWorld
October 1, 2018
•[ leak ]
In October 2018, the Russian Minecraft service VimeWorld suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 3.1M records of usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either MD5 or bcrypt hashes.
