Western Union
February 14, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Western Union warns that some customers' information may have been accessed without authorization as a result of a computer intrusion against an external vendor system formerly used by Western Union for secure data storage.
Autocentrum.pl
February 4, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, automotive ]
In February 2018, data belonging to the Polish motoring website autocentrum.pl was found online. The data contained 144k email addresses and plain text passwords.
MyFitnessPal
February 1, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In February 2018, the diet and exercise service MyFitnessPal suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 144 million unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-1 and bcrypt hashes (the former for earlier accounts, the latter for newer accounts). In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
PropTiger
January 30, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2018, the Indian property website PropTiger suffered a data breach which resulted in a 3.46GB database file being exposed and subsequently shared extensively on a popular hacking forum 2 years later. The exposed data contained both user records and login histories with over 2M unique customer email addresses. Exposed data also included additional personal attributes such as names, dates of birth, genders, IP addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. PropTiger advised they believe the usability of the data is "limited" due to how certain data attributes were generated and stored. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
JoomlArt
January 30, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2018, the Joomla template website JoomlArt inadvertently exposed more than 22k unique customer records in a Jira ticket. The exposed data was from iJoomla and JomSocial, both services that JoomlArt acquired the previous year. The data included usernames, email addresses, purchases and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. When contacted, JoomlArt advised they were aware of the incident and had previously notified impacted parties.
DailyObjects
January 1, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In approximately January 2018, a collection of more than 464k customer records from the Indian online retailer DailyObjects were leaked online. The data included names, physical and email addresses, phone numbers and "pincodes" stored in plain text. After multiple attempts to contact them, DailyObjects responded and received a copy of the data for verification, however failed to respond to multiple contact attempts following that.
Elanic
January 1, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, retail ]
In January 2020, the Indian fashion marketplace Elanic had 2.8M records with 2.3M unique email addresses posted publicly to a popular hacking forum. Elanic confirmed that they had "verified the data and it was pulled from one of our test servers where this data was exposed publicly" and that the data was "old" (the hacking forum reported it as being from 2016-2018). When asked about disclosure to impacted customers, Elanic advised that they had "decided to not have as such any communication and public disclosure".
Lyrics Mania
December 21, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2017, the song lyrics website known as Lyrics Mania suffered a data breach. The data in the breach included 109k usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords. Numerous attempts were made to contact Lyrics Mania about the incident, however no responses were received.
