Dueling Network
March 29, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2017, the Flash game based on the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game Dueling Network suffered a data breach. The site itself was taken offline in 2016 due to a cease-and-desist order but the forum remained online for another year. The data breach exposed usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "burger vault".
FashionFantasyGame
December 1, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In late 2016, the fashion gaming website Fashion Fantasy Game suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 2.3 million unique user accounts and corresponding MD5 password hashes with no salt. The data was contributed to Have I Been Pwned courtesy of rip@creep.im.
CoinTracker
December 1, 2022
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In December 2022, the Crypto & NFT taxes service CoinTracker reported a data breach that impacted over 1.5M of their customers. The company later attributed the breach to a compromise SendGrid in an attack that targeted multiple customers of the email provider. The breach exposed email addresses and partially redacted phone numbers, with CoinTracker advising that the later did not originate from their service.
Hjedd
July 18, 2022
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2022, the Chinese adult website Hjedd was found to be leaking more than 13M customer records which subsequently appeared on a popular hacking forum. The exposed data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
Brand New Tube
August 14, 2022
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2022, the streaming website Brand New Tube suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of almost 350k subscribers. The impacted data included email and IP addresses, usernames, genders, passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes and private messages.
Artvalue
June 19, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In June 2019, the France-based art valuation website Artvalue.com left their 158k member subscriber base publicly exposed in a text file on their website. The exposed data included names, usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The site operator did not respond when contacted about the incident, although the exposed file was subsequently removed.
ApexSMS
April 15, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2019, news broke of a massive SMS spam operation known as "ApexSMS" which was discovered after a MongoDB instance of the same name was found exposed without a password. The incident leaked over 80M records with 23M unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and carriers, geographic locations (state and country), genders and IP addresses.
Switch
October 1, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2024, the Hungarian IT headhunting service Switch inadvertently exposed thousands of customer records via a public GitHub repository. The exposed data contained job applications with names, email addresses and in some cases, commentary on the applicant.
Real Estate Mogul
September 6, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
In September 2016, the real estate investment site Real Estate Mogul had a Mongo DB instance compromised and 5GB of data downloaded by an unauthorised party. The data contained real estate listings including addresses and the names, phone numbers and 308k unique email addresses of the sellers. Real Estate Mogul was advised of the incident in September 2018 and stated that they "found no instance of user account credentials like usernames and passwords nor billing information within this file".
OGUsers (2021 breach)
April 11, 2021
•[ hack, misconfiguration ]
In April 2021, the account hijacking and SIM swapping forum OGusers suffered a data breach, the fourth since December 2018. The breach was subsequently sold on a rival hacking forum and contained usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either salted MD5 or argon2 hashes. A total of 348k unique email addresses appeared in the breach.
Thingiverse
October 13, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2021, a database backup taken from the 3D model sharing service Thingiverse began extensively circulating within the hacking community. Dating back to October 2020, the 36GB file contained 228 thousand unique email addresses, mostly alongside comments left on 3D models. The data also included usernames, IP addresses, full names and passwords stored as either unsalted SHA-1 or bcrypt hashes. In some cases, physical addresses was also exposed. Thingiverse's owner, MakerBot, is aware of the incident but at the time of writing, is yet to issue a disclosure statement. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Straffic
February 14, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2020, Israeli marketing company Straffic exposed a database with 140GB of personal data. The publicly accessible Elasticsearch database contained over 300M rows with 49M unique email addresses. Exposed data also included names, phone numbers, physical addresses and genders. In their breach disclosure message, Straffic stated that "it is impossible to create a totally immune system, and these things can occur".
Linux Forums
May 1, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2018, the Linux Forums website suffered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 276k unique email addresses. Running on an old version of vBulletin, the breach also disclosed usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. Linux Forums did not respond to multiple attempts to contact them about the breach.
Lead Hunter
March 4, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In March 2020, a massive trove of personal information referred to as "Lead Hunter" was provided to HIBP after being found left exposed on a publicly facing Elasticsearch server. The data contained 69 million unique email addresses across 110 million rows of data accompanied by additional personal information including names, phone numbers, genders and physical addresses. At the time of publishing, the breach could not be attributed to those responsible for obtaining and exposing it. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Fantasy Football Hub
October 2, 2021
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2021, the fantasy premier league (soccer) website Fantasy Football Hub suffered a data breach that exposed 66 thousand unique email addresses. The data included names, usernames, IP addresses, transactions and passwords stored as WordPress MD5 hashes.
Anti Public Combo List
December 16, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In December 2016, a huge list of email address and password pairs appeared in a "combo list" referred to as "Anti Public". The list contained 458 million unique email addresses, many with multiple different passwords hacked from various online systems. The list was broadly circulated and used for "credential stuffing", that is attackers employ it in an attempt to identify other online systems where the account owner had reused their password. For detailed background on this incident, read Password reuse, credential stuffing and another billion records in Have I Been Pwned.
NetProspex
September 1, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2016, a list of over 33 million individuals in corporate America sourced from Dun & Bradstreet's NetProspex service was leaked online. D&B believe the targeted marketing data was lost by a customer who purchased it from them. It contained extensive personal and corporate information including names, email addresses, job titles and general information about the employer.
FlipaClip
November 18, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2024, the animation app FlipaClip suffered a data breach that exposed almost 900k records due to an exposed Firebase server. The impacted data included name, email address, country and date of birth. FlipaClip advised the issue has since been rectified.
Modern Business Solutions
October 8, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2016, a large Mongo DB file containing tens of millions of accounts was shared publicly on Twitter (the file has since been removed). The database contained over 58M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, names, home addresses, genders, job titles, dates of birth and phone numbers. The data was subsequently attributed to "Modern Business Solutions", a company that provides data storage and database hosting solutions. They've yet to acknowledge the incident or explain how they came to be in possession of the data.
MemeChat
June 1, 2022
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In mid-2022, "the ultimate hub of memes" MemeChat suffered a data breach that exposed 7.4M records. Alleged to be due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch instance, the data contained 4.3M unique email addresses alongside usernames.
