InterPals
November 4, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In late 2015, the online penpal site InterPals had their website hacked and 3.4 million accounts exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, geographical locations, birthdates and salted hashes of passwords.
Gemplex
February 18, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In February 2021, the Indian streaming platform Gemplex suffered a data breach that exposed 4.6M user accounts. The impacted data included device information, names, phone numbers, email addresses and bcrypt password hashes.
Carding Mafia (March 2021)
March 18, 2021
•[ leak, financial ]
In March 2021, the Carding Mafia forum suffered a data breach that exposed almost 300k members' email addresses. Dedicated to the theft and trading of stolen credit cards, the forum breach also exposed usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Washington State Food Worker Card
November 17, 2022
•[ leak, hack, government ]
In June 2023, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced a data breach of their Washington State Food Worker Card online training system. The breach was published to a popular hacking forum the year before and dated back to a 2018 database backup. Included in the data were 1.6M unique email addresses along with names, post codes, dates of birth and approximately 9.5k driver's licence numbers.
Banorte
August 18, 2014
•[ leak, finance ]
In August 2022, millions of records from Mexican bank "Banorte" were publicly dumped on a popular hacking forum including 2.1M unique email addresses, physical addresses, names, phone numbers, RFC (tax) numbers, genders and bank balances. Banorte have stated that the data is "outdated", although have not yet indicated how far back it dates to. Anecdotal feedback from HIBP subscribers suggests the data may date back 8 years to 2014.
Vedantu
July 8, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In mid-2019, the Indian interactive online tutoring platform Vedantu suffered a data breach which exposed the personal data of 687k users. The JSON formatted database dump exposed extensive personal information including email and IP address, names, phone numbers, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. When contacted about the incident, Vedantu advised that they were aware of the breach and were in the process of informing their customers.
Tracki
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 GPS tracking service Tracki. Multiple vulnerabilities exposed the personal records of 372k users of the service including names and email addresses.
MajorGeeks
November 15, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In November 2015, almost 270k accounts from the MajorGeeks support forum were breached. The accounts were being actively sold and traded online and included email addresses, salted password hashes and IP addresses.
Audi
August 14, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In August 2019, Audi USA suffered a data breach after a vendor left data unsecured and exposed on the internet. The data contained 2.7M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and vehicle information including VIN. In a disclosure statement from Audi, they also advised some customers had driver's licenses, dates of birth, social security numbers and other personal information exposed.
Lord of the Rings Online
August 1, 2013
•[ leak, technology ]
In August 2013, the interactive video game Lord of the Rings Online suffered a data breach that exposed over 1.1M players' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and password hashes.
IndiaMART
May 23, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In August 2021, 38 million records from Indian e-commerce company IndiaMART were found being traded on a popular hacking forum. Dated several months earlier, the data included over 20 million unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and physical addresses. It's unclear whether IndiaMART intentionally exposed the data attributes as part of the intended design of the platform or whether the data was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the service.
Funny Games
April 28, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2018, the online entertainment site Funny Games suffered a data breach that disclosed 764k records including usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. The incident was disclosed to Funny Games in July who acknowledged the breach and identified it had been caused by legacy code no longer in use. The record count in the breach constitute approximately half of the user base.
Bombuj.eu
December 7, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2018, the Slovak website for watching movies online for free Bombuj.eu suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 575k unique email addresses and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. No response was received from Bombuj.eu when contacted about the incident.
ForumCommunity
June 1, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid-2016, the Italian-based service for creating forums known as ForumCommunity suffered a data breach. The incident impacted over 776k unique email addresses along with usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes. No response was received from ForumCommunity when contacted.
Estante Virtual
February 28, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In February 2019, the Brazilian book store Estante Virtual suffered a data breach that impacted 5.4M customers. The exposed data included names, usernames, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and unsalted SHA-1 password hashes.
Dungeons & Dragons Online
April 2, 2013
•[ leak, technology ]
In April 2013, the interactive video game Dungeons & Dragons Online suffered a data breach that exposed almost 1.6M players' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and password hashes.
SoarGames
December 16, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming website SoarGames suffered a data breach that exposed 4.8M unique email addresses. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. A significant number of the email addresses appeared to have been generated as opposed to organically provided by the user.
Shopper+
September 14, 2020
•[ leak, retail ]
In March 2023, "Canada's online shopping mall" Shopper+ disclosed a data breach discovered on a public hacking forum. The breach dated back to September 2020 and included 878k customer records with email and physical addresses, names, phone numbers and in some cases, genders and dates of birth.
Regpack
May 20, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In July 2016, a tweet was posted with a link to an alleged data breach of BlueSnap, a global payment gateway and merchant account provider. The data contained 324k payment records across 105k unique email addresses and included personal attributes such as name, home address and phone number. The data was verified with multiple Have I Been Pwned subscribers who confirmed it also contained valid transactions, partial credit card numbers, expiry dates and CVVs. A downstream consumer of BlueSnap services known as Regpack was subsequently identified as the source of the data after they identified human error had left the transactions exposed on a publicly facing server. A full investigation of the data and statement by Regpack is detailed in the post titled Someone just lost 324k payment records, complete with CVVs.
Bell (2017 breach)
May 15, 2017
•[ leak, insider, telecommunications ]
In May 2017, the Bell telecommunications company in Canada suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of millions of customer records. The data was consequently leaked online with a message from the attacker stating that they were "releasing a significant portion of Bell.ca's data due to the fact that they have failed to cooperate with us" and included a threat to leak more. The impacted data included over 2 million unique email addresses and 153k survey results dating back to 2011 and 2012. There were also 162 Bell employee records with more comprehensive personal data including names, phone numbers and plain text "passcodes". Bell suffered another breach in 2014 which exposed 40k records.
