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.
PSX-Scene
February 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately February 2015, the Sony Playstation forum known as PSX-Scene was hacked and more than 340k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Gemplex
February 18, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In February 2021, the Indian streaming platform Gemplex suffered a data breach that exposed 4.6M user accounts. The impacted data included device information, names, phone numbers, email addresses and bcrypt password hashes.
Vedantu
July 8, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In mid-2019, the Indian interactive online tutoring platform Vedantu suffered a data breach which exposed the personal data of 687k users. The JSON formatted database dump exposed extensive personal information including email and IP address, names, phone numbers, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. When contacted about the incident, Vedantu advised that they were aware of the breach and were in the process of informing their customers.
Tracki
August 15, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2024, a slew of security vulnerabilities were identified with a conglomerate of online services which included the GPS tracking service Tracki. Multiple vulnerabilities exposed the personal records of 372k users of the service including names and email addresses.
Lookbook
August 24, 2012
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
In August 2012, the fashion site Lookbook suffered a data breach. The data later appeared listed for sale in June 2016 and included 1.1 million usernames, email and IP addresses, birth dates and plain text passwords.
Neiman Marcus
April 14, 2024
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
In May 2024, the American luxury retailer Neiman Marcus suffered a data breach which was later posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 31M unique email addresses, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, physical addresses and partial credit card data (note: this is insufficient to make purchases). The breach was traced back to a series of attacks against the Snowflake cloud service which impacted 165 organisations worldwide.
Audi
August 14, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In August 2019, Audi USA suffered a data breach after a vendor left data unsecured and exposed on the internet. The data contained 2.7M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and vehicle information including VIN. In a disclosure statement from Audi, they also advised some customers had driver's licenses, dates of birth, social security numbers and other personal information exposed.
IndiaMART
May 23, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In August 2021, 38 million records from Indian e-commerce company IndiaMART were found being traded on a popular hacking forum. Dated several months earlier, the data included over 20 million unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and physical addresses. It's unclear whether IndiaMART intentionally exposed the data attributes as part of the intended design of the platform or whether the data was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the service.
Funny Games
April 28, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2018, the online entertainment site Funny Games suffered a data breach that disclosed 764k records including usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. The incident was disclosed to Funny Games in July who acknowledged the breach and identified it had been caused by legacy code no longer in use. The record count in the breach constitute approximately half of the user base.
Bombuj.eu
December 7, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2018, the Slovak website for watching movies online for free Bombuj.eu suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 575k unique email addresses and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. No response was received from Bombuj.eu when contacted about the incident.
Sumo Torrent
June 21, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2014, the torrent site Sumo Torrent was hacked and 285k member records were exposed. The data included IP addresses, email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes.
Minefield
June 28, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2015, the French Minecraft server known as Minefield was hacked and 188k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
ForumCommunity
June 1, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid-2016, the Italian-based service for creating forums known as ForumCommunity suffered a data breach. The incident impacted over 776k unique email addresses along with usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes. No response was received from ForumCommunity when contacted.
Estante Virtual
February 28, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In February 2019, the Brazilian book store Estante Virtual suffered a data breach that impacted 5.4M customers. The exposed data included names, usernames, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and unsalted SHA-1 password hashes.
SoarGames
December 16, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming website SoarGames suffered a data breach that exposed 4.8M unique email addresses. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. A significant number of the email addresses appeared to have been generated as opposed to organically provided by the user.
Regpack
May 20, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In July 2016, a tweet was posted with a link to an alleged data breach of BlueSnap, a global payment gateway and merchant account provider. The data contained 324k payment records across 105k unique email addresses and included personal attributes such as name, home address and phone number. The data was verified with multiple Have I Been Pwned subscribers who confirmed it also contained valid transactions, partial credit card numbers, expiry dates and CVVs. A downstream consumer of BlueSnap services known as Regpack was subsequently identified as the source of the data after they identified human error had left the transactions exposed on a publicly facing server. A full investigation of the data and statement by Regpack is detailed in the post titled Someone just lost 324k payment records, complete with CVVs.
The Post Millennial
May 2, 2024
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2024, the conservative news website The Post Millennial suffered a data breach. The breach resulted in the defacement of the website and links posted to 3 different corpuses of data including hundreds of writers and editors (IP, physical address and email exposed), tens of thousands of subscribers to the site (name, email, username, phone and plain text password exposed), and tens of millions of email addresses from thousands of mailing lists alleged to have been used by The Post Millennial (this has not been independently verified). The mailing lists appear to be sourced from various campaigns not necessarily run by The Post Millennial and contain a variety of different personal attributes including name, phone and physical address (depending on the campaign). The data was subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum and extensively torrented.
MangaDex
March 22, 2021
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2021, the manga fan site MangaDex suffered a data breach that resulted in the exposure of almost 3 million subscribers. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was subsequently circulated within hacking groups.
OGUsers (2020 breach)
April 2, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2020, the account hijacking and SIM swapping forum OGUsers suffered their second data breach in less than a year. As with the previous breach, the exposed data included email and IP addresses, usernames, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. A total of 263k email addresses across user accounts and other tables were posted to a rival hacking forum.
