Minehut
May 17, 2019
•[ leak, technology ]
In May 2019, the Minecraft server website Minehut suffered a data breach. The company advised a database backup had been obtained after which they subsequently notified all impacted users. 397k email addresses from the incident were provided to HIBP. A data set with both email addresses and bcrypt password hashes was also later provided to HIBP.
Date Hot Brunettes
January 12, 2021
•[ leak, technology ]
In January 2021, the now defunct website Date Hot Brunettes which provided a service to "Date Neglected Women Who Can Keep a Secret", suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames, user-entered bios and MD5 password hashes.
APK.TW
September 3, 2022
•[ leak, technology ]
In September 2022, the Taiwanese Android forum APK.TW suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 2.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.
Mac-Torrents
October 31, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no salt.
Samsung Germany Customer Tickets
March 30, 2024
•[ leak, malware, technology ]
In March 2025, data from Samsung Germany was compromised in a data breach of their logistics provider, Spectos. Allegedly due to credentials being obtained by malware running on a Spectos employee's machine, the breach included 216k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, items purchased from Samsung Germany and related support tickets and shipping tracking numbers.
Giant Tiger
March 4, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In March 2024, Canadian discount store Giant Tiger suffered a data breach that exposed 2.8M customer records. Attributed to a vendor of the retailer, the breach included physical and email addresses, names and phone numbers.
Jobzone
April 15, 2023
•[ leak, technology ]
In April 2023, data from the Israeli jobs website Jobzone was posted online. The data included 30k records of email addresses, names, social security numbers, genders, dates of birth, fathers' names and physical addresses.
Elanic
January 1, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In January 2020, the Indian fashion marketplace Elanic had 2.8M records with 2.3M unique email addresses posted publicly to a popular hacking forum. Elanic confirmed that they had "verified the data and it was pulled from one of our test servers where this data was exposed publicly" and that the data was "old" (the hacking forum reported it as being from 2016-2018). When asked about disclosure to impacted customers, Elanic advised that they had "decided to not have as such any communication and public disclosure".
CafeMom
April 10, 2014
•[ leak, technology ]
In 2014, the social network for mothers CafeMom suffered a data breach. The data surfaced alongside a number of other historical breaches including Kickstarter, Bitly and Disqus and contained 2.6 million email addresses and plain text passwords.
Deezer
April 22, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In late 2022, the music streaming service Deezer disclosed a data breach that impacted over 240M customers. The breach dated back to a mid-2019 backup exposed by a 3rd party partner which was subsequently sold and then broadly redistributed on a popular hacking forum. Impacted data included 229M unique email addresses, IP addresses, names, usernames, genders, DoBs and the geographic location of the customer.
DataCamp
January 30, 2017
•[ leak, education ]
In December 2018, the data science website DataCamp suffered a data breach of records dating back to January 2017. The incident exposed 760k unique email and IP addresses along with names and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. 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".
BookCrossing
November 5, 2012
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2022, the book social networking site BookCrossing disclosed a data breach that dated back to a database backup from November 2012. The incident exposed almost 1.6M records including names, usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and plain text passwords.
MGM Resorts
July 25, 2019
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In July 2019, MGM Resorts discovered a data breach of one of their cloud services. The breach included 10.6M guest records with 3.1M unique email addresses stemming back to 2017. The exposed data included email and physical addresses, names, phone numbers and dates of birth and was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum in February 2020 where it was extensively redistributed. The data was provided to HIBP by Under The Breach.
Lyrics Mania
December 21, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2017, the song lyrics website known as Lyrics Mania suffered a data breach. The data in the breach included 109k usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords. Numerous attempts were made to contact Lyrics Mania about the incident, however no responses were received.
Gamigo
March 1, 2012
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In March 2012, the German online game publisher Gamigo was hacked and more than 8 million accounts publicly leaked. The breach included email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes with no salt.
tumblr
February 28, 2013
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In early 2013, tumblr suffered a data breach which resulted in the exposure of over 65 million accounts. The data was later put up for sale on a dark market website and included email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA1 hashes.
MMG Fusion
December 20, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
In December 2020, the dental practice management service MMG Fusion was the victim of a data breach which exposed 2.6M unique email addresses. The data also included patient appointments, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and physical addresses. A small number of records also included passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
RailYatri
December 26, 2022
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2022, Indias government-approved online travel agency RailYatri suffered a data breach. The incident impacted over 31M customers and exposed 23M unique email addresses. Also impacted were names, genders, phone numbers and tickets purchased, including travel information and fares.
Health Now Networks
March 25, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
In March 2017, the telemarketing service Health Now Networks left a database containing hundreds of thousands of medical records exposed. There were over 900,000 records in total containing significant volumes of personal information including names, dates of birth, various medical conditions and operator notes on the individuals' health. The data included over 320k unique email addresses.
Fridae
May 2, 2014
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2014, over 25,000 user accounts were breached from the Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender website known as "Fridae". The attack which was announced on Twitter appears to have been orchestrated by Deletesec who claim that "Digital weapons shall annihilate all secrecy within governments and corporations". The exposed data included password stored in plain text.
