HDB Financial Services
February 22, 2023
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In March 2023, the Indian non-bank lending unit HDB Financial Services suffered a data breach that disclosed over 70M customer records. Containing 1.6M unique email addresses, the breach also disclosed names, dates of birth, phone numbers, genders, post codes and loan information belonging to the customers.
BannerBit
December 29, 2018
•[ leak, technology ]
In approximately December 2018, the online ad platform BannerBit suffered a data breach. Containing 213k unique email addresses and plain text passwords, the data was provided to HIBP by a third party. Multiple attempts were made to contact BannerBit, but no response was received.
Explore Talent (July 2024)
February 28, 2022
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In July 2024, a data breach attributed to Explore Talent was publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. Containing 5.7M rows with 5.4M unique email addresses, the incident has been described by various sources as occurring between early 2022 to 2023 and also contains names, phone numbers and physical addresses.
Pixel Federation
December 4, 2013
•[ hack, leak ]
In December 2013, a breach of the web-based game community based in Slovakia exposed over 38,000 accounts which were promptly posted online. The breach included email addresses and unsalted MD5 hashed passwords, many of which were easily converted back to plain text.
Foodora
April 22, 2016
•[ leak, retail ]
In April 2016, the online food delivery service Foodora suffered a data breach which was then extensively redistributed online. The breach included the personal information of hundreds of thousands of customers from multiple countries including their names, delivery addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as either a salted MD5 or a bcrypt hash.
Fashion Nexus
July 9, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In July 2018, UK-based ecommerce company Fashion Nexus suffered a data breach which exposed 1.4 million records. Multiple websites developed by sister company White Room Solutions were impacted in the breach amongst which were sites including Jaded London and AX Paris. The various sites exposed in the incident included a range of different data types including names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords stored as a mix of salted MD5 and SHA-1 as well as unsalted MD5 passwords. When asked by reporter Graham Cluley if a public statement on the incident was available, a one-word response of "No" was received.
dvd-shop.ch
December 5, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In December 2017, the online Swiss DVD store known as dvd-shop.ch suffered a data breach. The incident led to the exposure of 68k email addresses and plain text passwords. The site has since been updated to indicate that it is currently closed.
Orange Romania
February 24, 2025
•[ financial, hack, leak ]
In February 2025, the Romanian arm of telecommunications company Orange suffered a data breach which was subsequently published to a popular hacking forum. The data included 556k email addresses (of which hundreds of thousands were in the form of [phone number]@as1.romtelecom.net), phone numbers, subscription details, partial credit card data (type, last 4 digits, expiration date and issuing bank). The breach also exposed an extensive number of internal documents.
Instant Checkmate
April 12, 2019
•[ leak, technology ]
In 2019, the public records search service Instant Checkmate suffered a data breach that later came to light in early 2023. The data included almost 12M unique customer email addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as scrypt hashes.
Doxbin (TOoDA)
February 12, 2024
•[ leak ]
In February 2025, the "doxing" website Doxbin was compromised by a group calling themselves "TOoDA" and the data dumped publicly. Included in the breach were 336k unique email addresses alongside usernames. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "emo.rip".
Abandonia (2015)
November 1, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, the gaming website dedicated to classic DOS games Abandonia suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 776k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
Hub4Tech
January 1, 2017
•[ leak, sqlinjection, education ]
On an unknown date in approximately 2017, the Indian training and assessment service known as Hub4Tech suffered a data breach via a SQL injection attack. The incident exposed almost 37k unique email addresses and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. No response was received from Hub4Tech when contacted about the incident.
Bourse des Vols
January 12, 2021
•[ leak, sqlinjection, retail ]
In January 2021, the French travel company Bourse des Vols suffered a data breach that exposed 1.46M unique email addresses across more than 1.2k .sql files and over 9GB of data. The impacted data exposed personal information and travel histories including names, phone numbers, IP and physical addresses, dates of birth along with flights taken and purchases.
Yatra
September 1, 2013
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2013, the Indian bookings website known as Yatra had 5 million records exposed in a data breach. The data contained email and physical addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers along with both PINs and passwords stored in plain text. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
MyFitnessPal
February 1, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2018, the diet and exercise service MyFitnessPal suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 144 million unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-1 and bcrypt hashes (the former for earlier accounts, the latter for newer accounts). In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
Heroes of Gaia
January 4, 2013
•[ leak, technology ]
In early 2013, the online fantasy multiplayer game Heroes of Gaia suffered a data breach. The newest records in the data set indicate a breach date of 4 January 2013 and include usernames, IP and email addresses but no passwords.
Ashley Madison
July 19, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the infidelity website Ashley Madison suffered a serious data breach. The attackers threatened Ashley Madison with the full disclosure of the breach unless the service was shut down. One month later, the database was dumped including more than 30M unique email addresses. This breach has been classed as "sensitive" and is not publicly searchable, although individuals may discover if they've been impacted by registering for notifications. Read about this approach in detail.
Upstox
April 8, 2021
•[ finance, leak ]
In April 2021, Indian brokerage firm Upstox suffered a data breach. The incident exposed extensive personal information on over 100k customers including names, genders, dates of birth, physical addresses, banking information and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Extensive "know your customer" information was also exposed including scans of bank statements, cheques and identity documents complete with Aadhaar numbers. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
Stripchat
November 5, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2021, the live sex cams and adult chat website Stripchat left several databases exposed and unsecured. In June the following year, over 10M Stripchat records appeared on a popular hacking forum. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses and IP addresses.
Stealer Logs Posted to Telegram
July 18, 2024
•[ leak, malware ]
In July 2024, info stealer logs with 26M unique email addresses were collated from malicious Telegram channels. The data contained 22GB of logs consisting of email addresses, passwords and the websites they were used on, all obtained by malware running on infected machines.
