Kaneva
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration ]
In July 2016, now defunct website Kaneva, the service to "build and explore virtual worlds", suffered a data breach that exposed 3.9M user records. The data included email addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.
GLAMIRA
December 16, 2023
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
In late 2023, the online jewellery store GLAMIRA suffered a data breach they attributed to "an unauthorised individual [who] briefly accessed one of our servers". The data was subsequently published on a popular hacking forum and included 875k email addresses, names, phone numbers and purchases. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
AT&T
August 20, 2021
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2024, tens of millions of records allegedly breached from AT&T were posted to a popular hacking forum. Dating back to August 2021, the data was originally posted for sale before later being freely released. At the time, AT&T maintained that there had not been a breach of their systems and that the data originated from elsewhere. 12 days later, AT&T acknowledged that data fields specific to them were in the breach and that it was not yet known whether the breach occurred at their end or that of a vendor. AT&T also proceeded to reset customer account passcodes, an indicator that there was sufficient belief passcodes had been compromised. The incident exposed names, email and physical addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and US social security numbers.
HongFire
March 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In March 2015, the anime and manga forum HongFire suffered a data breach. The hack of their vBulletin forum led to the exposure of 1 million accounts along with email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 passwords.
Jefit
August 11, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2020, the workout tracking app Jefit suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently sold within the hacking community and included over 9 million email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as either vBulletin or argon2 hashes. Several million cracked passwords later appeared in broad circulation.
Verifications.io
February 25, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2019, the email address validation service verifications.io suffered a data breach. Discovered by Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia, the breach was due to the data being stored in a MongoDB instance left publicly facing without a password and resulted in 763 million unique email addresses being exposed. Many records within the data also included additional personal attributes such as names, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth and genders. No passwords were included in the data. The Verifications.io website went offline during the disclosure process, although an archived copy remains viewable.
Utah Gun Exchange
July 17, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, retail ]
In July 2020, the Utah Gun Exchange website suffered a data breach which included several other associated websites. In total, 235k unique email addresses were exposed before being traded online alongside names, usernames, genders, IP addresses and password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw.
Ticketek
May 31, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In May 2024, the Australian event ticketing company Ticketek reported a data breach linked to a third party cloud-based platform. The following month, the data appeared for sale on a popular hacking forum and was later linked to a series of breaches of the Snowflake cloud storage service. The data contained almost 30M rows with 17.6M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, dates of birth and hashed passwords.
Lizard Squad
January 16, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2015, the hacker collective known as "Lizard Squad" created a DDoS service by the name of "Lizard Stresser" which could be procured to mount attacks against online targets. Shortly thereafter, the service suffered a data breach which resulted in the public disclosure of over 13k user accounts including passwords stored in plain text.
Hurb
March 14, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately March 2019, the online Brazilian travel agency Hurb (formerly Hotel Urbano) suffered a data breach. The data subsequently appeared online for download the following year and included over 20 million customer records with email and IP addresses, names, dates of birth, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Roblox
July 31, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2016, Roblox disclosed a data breach that affected over 50k users. The security incident impacted email and IP addresses, usernames, purchases and Robux balances which were left exposed on a test server.
YouPorn
February 21, 2012
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2012, the adult website YouPorn had over 1.3M user accounts exposed in a data breach. The publicly released data included both email addresses and plain text passwords.
OMGPOP
January 1, 2013
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2013, the maker of the Draw Something game OMGPOP suffered a data breach. Formerly known as i'minlikewithyou or iilwy and later purchased by Zynga, the breach exposed over 7M email address and plain text password pairs which were later leaked in 2019.
Doxbin Scrape
January 24, 2025
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2025, 435k email addresses were scraped from the "doxing" service Doxbin. Posts to the service are usually intended to disclose the personal information of non-consensually third parties. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
Data Enrichment Exposure From PDL Customer
October 16, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2019, security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko identified an unprotected Elasticsearch server holding 1.2 billion records of personal data. The exposed data included an index indicating it was sourced from data enrichment company People Data Labs (PDL) and contained 622 million unique email addresses. The server was not owned by PDL and it's believed a customer failed to properly secure the database. Exposed information included email addresses, phone numbers, social media profiles and job history data.
Lazada RedMart
July 30, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In October 2020, news broke of Lazada RedMart data breach containing records as recent as July 2020 and being sold via an online marketplace. In all, the data contained 1.1 million customer email addresses alongside names, phone numbers, physical addresses, partial credit card numbers and passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes.
GeekedIn
August 15, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2016, the technology recruitment site GeekedIn left a MongoDB database exposed and over 8M records were extracted by an unknown third party. The breached data was originally scraped from GitHub in violation of their terms of use and contained information exposed in public profiles, including over 1 million members' email addresses. Full details on the incident (including how impacted members can see their leaked data) are covered in the blog post on 8 million GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB - here's how to see yours.
Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App
October 15, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2024, the flat earth sun, moon and zodiac app created by Flat Earth Dave was found to be leaking extensive personal information of its users. The data included 33k unique email addresses along with usernames, latitudes and longitudes (their position on the globe) and passwords stored in plain text. A small number of profiles also contained names, dates of birth and genders.
Tigo
March 31, 2023
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In Mid-2023, 300GB of data containing over 100M records from the Chinese video chat platform "Tigo" dating back to March that year was discovered. The data contained over 700k unique names, usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, profile photos and private messages. Tigo did not respond to multiple attempts to disclose the incident.
Movie Forums
November 24, 2022
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2022, the Movie Forums website suffered a data breach that affected 40k users. The breach exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and passwords stored as easily crackable salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently posted a popular clear web hacking forum.
