WeLeakInfo
March 8, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2021, the Stripe account of the now-defunct WeLeakInfo service was taken over by "pompompurin" after acquiring an expired domain name with an email address used to manage the account. Access to Stripe then exposed almost 12k unique email addresses from customers who'd made credit card payments in order to obtain breached data hosted by WeLeakInfo. The data was subsequently leaked publicly and also included names, payment histories, IP addresses, billing addresses, partial credit card data and the organisation making the purchase.
Pampling
January 4, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
In January 2020, the online clothing retailer Pampling suffered a data breach that exposed 383k unique customer email addresses. The data was later shared on a popular hacking forum and also included names, usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
French Citizens
September 25, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In September 2024, over 90M rows of data on French Citizens was found left exposed in a publicly facing database. Compiled from various data breaches, the corpus contained 28M unique email addresses with the various source breaches each exposing different fields including name, physical and IP address, phone number and partial credit card data including payment type and last 4 digits.
Benchmark
November 1, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2019, the Serbian technology news website Benchmark suffered a breach of its forum that exposed 93k customer records. The breach exposed IP and email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. A forum administrator subsequently advised that the breach was due to the forum previously running on an outdated vBulletin instance. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "ZAN @ BF".
Zooville
September 27, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2019, the zoophilia and bestiality forum Zooville suffered a data breach. The usernames and email addresses of 71k members were accessed via an unpatched vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software then subsequently distributed online. A second data set was later provided to HIBP which contained a complete vBulletin database dump including IP addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The site administrator advised that following the breach, all data had been deleted from the forum and a new one had been stood up on the XenForo platform. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "burger vault".
Xbox-Scene
February 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately February 2015, the Xbox forum known as Xbox-Scene was hacked and more than 432k accounts were exposed. The IP.Board forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Universarium
November 1, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In approximately November 2019, the Russian "Remote preparatory faculty for IT specialties" Universarium suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 565k email addresses and passwords in plain text. Universarium did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact over a period of many weeks. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
WedMeGood
January 6, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, the Indian wedding planning platform WedMeGood suffered a data breach that exposed 1.3 million customers. The breach exposed 41.5GB of data including email and physical addresses, names, genders, phone numbers and password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Not Acxiom
June 21, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2020, a corpus of data containing almost a quarter of a billion records spanning over 400 different fields was misattributed to database marketing company Acxiom and subsequently circulated within the hacking community. On review, Acxiom concluded that "the claims are indeed false and that the data, which has been readily available across multiple environments, does not come from Acxiom and is in no way the subject of an Acxiom breach". The data contained almost 52M unique email addresses.
Life360
March 1, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2024, data scraped from a misconfigured Life360 API was posted online after being obtained several months earlier. The records included 443k unique email addresses and in most cases, corresponding names and phone numbers (some records were null or obfuscated). Life360 promptly notified impacted users after the incident was discovered.
Horse Isle
September 19, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In June 2020 then again in September that same year, Horse Isle "The Secrent Land of Horses" suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 28k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, IP addresses, genders, purchases and plain text passwords. The system also stored and exposed failed password attempts for each user with the password retained in plain text.
University of California
December 24, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
In December 2020, the University of California suffered a data breach due to vulnerability in in a third-party provider, Accellion. The breach exposed extensive personal data on both students and staff including 547 thousand unique email addresses, names, dates of birth, genders, social security numbers, ethnicities and other academic related data attributes. Further analysis is available in Exploring the Impact of the UC Data Breach. The data was provided to HIBP courtesy of Cyril Gorlla.
Snail
March 14, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2015, the gaming website Snail suffered a data breach that impacted 1.4 million subscribers. The impacted data included usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
League of Legends
June 11, 2012
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2012, the multiplayer online game League of Legends suffered a data breach. At the time, the service had more than 32 million registered accounts and the breach affected various personal data attributes including "encrypted" passwords. In 2018, a 339k record subset of the data emerged with email addresses, usernames and plain text passwords, likely cracked from the original cryptographically protected ones.
devkitPro
February 3, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2019, the devkitPro forum suffered a data breach. The phpBB based forum had 1,508 unique email addresses exposed in the breach alongside forum posts, private messages and passwords stored as weak salted hashes. The data breach was self-submitted to HIBP by the forum operator.
Tappware
April 23, 2024
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2024, a substantial volume of data was taken from the Bangladeshi IT services provider Tappware and published to a popular hacking forum. Comprising of 95k unique email addresses, the data also included extensive labour information on local citizens including names, physical addresses, job titles, dates of birth, genders and scans of government issued national identity (NID) cards.
Spoutible
January 31, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2024, Spoutible had 207k records scraped from a misconfigured API that inadvertently returned excessive personal information. The data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses, phone numbers (where provided to the platform), genders and bcrypt password hashes. The incident also exposed 2FA secrets and backup codes along with password reset tokens.
Senior Dating
November 23, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2024, the 40+ dating website Senior Dating suffered a data breach. Attributed to an exposed Firebase database, the breach included extensive personal information on 766k users of the service including email addresses, photos, genders, links to Facebook accounts, dates of birth and precise latitude and longitude, among other personal attributes. The website was shut down after the breach was acknowledged by the site operator in December, along with a breach of the "ladies.com" website run by the same organisation.
Pokébip
July 28, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2015, the French Pokmon site Pokbip suffered a data breach which exposed 657k subscriber identities. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
Fling
March 10, 2011
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2011, the self-proclaimed "World's Best Adult Social Network" website known as Fling was hacked and more than 40 million accounts obtained by the attacker. The breached data included highly sensitive personal attributes such as sexual orientation and sexual interests as well as email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
