Linux Mint
February 21, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In February 2016, the website for the Linux distro known as Linux Mint was hacked and the ISO infected with a backdoor. The site also ran a phpBB forum which was subsequently put up for sale complete with almost 145k email addresses, passwords and other personal subscriber information.
Cocospy
February 14, 2025
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In February 2025, the spyware service Cocospy suffered a data breach along with sibling spyware service, Spyic. The Cocospy breach alone exposed almost 1.8M customer email addresses which were provided to HIBP, and reportedly also enabled unauthorised access to captured messages, photos, call logs, and more. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "zathienaephi@proton.me".
Phone House España
April 8, 2021
•[ ransomware, leak, malware ]
In April 2021, the Spanish retailer Phone House allegedly suffered a ransomware attack that also exposed significant volumes of customer data. Attributed to the Babuk ransomware, a collection of data alleged to be a subset of a larger corpus was posted to a dark web site and contained 5.2M email addresses along with names, nationalities, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and physical addresses. Phone House has been threatened with further releases if a ransom is not paid.
Genesis Market
April 5, 2023
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In April 2023, the stolen identity marketplace Genesis Market was shut down by the FBI and a coalition of law enforcement agencies across the globe in "Operation Cookie Monster". The service traded in "browser fingerprints" which enabled criminals to impersonate victims and access their online services. As many of the impacted accounts did not include email addresses, "8M" is merely an approximation intended to indicate scale. Other personal data compromised by the service included names, addresses and credit card information, although not all individuals had each of these fields exposed.
Elance
January 1, 2009
•[ leak, malware, technology ]
Sometime in 2009, staffing platform Elance suffered a data breach that impacted 1.3 million accounts. Appearing online 8 years later, the data contained usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and SHA1 hashes of passwords, amongst other personal data.
Polish Credentials
May 29, 2023
•[ leak, malware ]
In May 2023, a credential stuffing list of 6.3M Polish email address and password pairs appeared on a local forum. Likely obtained by malware running on victims' machines, each record included an email address and plain text password alongside the website the credentials were used on. The data included 1.2M unique email addresses.
Viva Air
March 14, 2022
•[ ransomware, malware ]
In March 2022, the now defunct Colombian airline Viva Air suffered a data breach and subsequent ransomware attack. Among a trove of other ransomed data, the incident exposed a log of 2.6M transactions with 932k unique email addresses, physical and IP addresses, names, phone numbers and partial credit card data (last 4 digits).
Estonian Citizens (via Estonian Cybercrime Bureau)
June 7, 2018
•[ hack, malware, government ]
In June 2018, the Cybercrime Bureau of the Estonian Central Criminal Police contacted HIBP and asked for assistance in making a data set of 655k email addresses searchable. The Estonian police suspected the email addresses and passwords they obtained were being used to access mailboxes, cryptocurrency exchanges, cloud service accounts and other similar online assets. They've requested that individuals who find themselves in the data set and also identify that cryptocurrency has been stolen contact them at cybercrime@politsei.ee.
xHamster
November 28, 2016
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In November 2016, news broke that hackers were trading hundreds of thousands of xHamster porn account details. In total, the data contained almost 380k unique user records including email addresses, usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
NVIDIA
February 23, 2022
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In February 2022, microchip company NVIDIA suffered a data breach that exposed employee credentials and proprietary code. Impacted data included over 70k employee email addresses and NTLM password hashes, many of which were subsequently cracked and circulated within the hacking community.
Nameless Malware
January 1, 2020
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In January 2021, NordLocker provided HIBP 1.1 million email addresses collected by nameless malware. The malware campaign ran between 2018 and 2020 and infected 3.25 million computers, stealing files, credentials and taking screenshots and photos using the computer's webcam. Read more in NordLocker's writeup about the Nameless malware that stole 1.2 TB of private data.
EatStreet
May 3, 2019
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
In May 2019, the online food ordering service EatStreet suffered a data breach affecting 6.4 million customers. An extensive amount of personal data was obtained including names, phone numbers, addresses, partial credit card data and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
BTC-Alpha
November 2, 2021
•[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
In November 2021, the crypto exchange platform BTC-Alpha suffered a ransomware attack data breach after which customer data was publicly dumped. The impacted data included 362k email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
Vastaamo
March 31, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
In October 2020, the Finnish psychotherapy service Vastaamo was the subject of a ransomware attack targeting first the company itself, followed by their patients directly. The original security incident dates back to a period between late 2018 and early 2019 and exposed data including 30k unique email addresses, names, social security numbers and notes on individuals' psychotherapy sessions. This breach has been flagged as "sensitive" and is only searchable by owners of the email addresses and domains exposed in the incident.
Organizations in Israel
October 31, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
Researchers at Check Point reveal that the threat actor dubber WIRTE, affiliated with Hamas has expanded its malicious cyber operations beyond espionage to carry out disruptive attacks with the SameCoin malware that exclusively target Israeli entities.
Guardian Healthcare
November 8, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Guardian Healthcare is the victim of a Stormous ransomware attack. The threat actors leaked 3 GB of files, many of which contain protected health information (PHI) of patients.
Houston Housing Authority
September 22, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Houston Housing Authority falls victim of a ransomware attack.
Metawin
November 3, 2024
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
A threat actor steals over $4 million from crypto casino Metawin's Ethereum and Solana hot wallets
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
November 1, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), one of the largest public housing authorities in the United States, confirms that a cyberattack hit its IT network after recent breach claims from the Cactus ransomware gang.
Undisclosed organization
September 5, 2024
•[ ransomware, malware ]
Researchers at Palo Alto discover a ransomware incident where the threat actor Jumpy Pisces, tied to North Korea, collaborated with the Play ransomware group.
