BitView
December 14, 2024
•[ insider, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2024, the video sharing Community BitView suffered a data breach that exposed 63k customer records. Attributed to a backup taken by a previous administrator earlier in the year, the breach exposed email and IP addresses, bcrypt password hashes, usernames, bios, private messages, video comments and for some records, gender, date of birth and country of location.
WPSandbox
November 4, 2018
•[ leak, phishing, technology ]
In November 2018, the WordPress sandboxing service that allows people to create temporary websites WP Sandbox discovered their service was being used to host a phishing site attempting to collect Microsoft OneDrive accounts. After identifying the malicious site, WP Sandbox took it offline, contacted the 858 people who provided information to it then self-submitted their addresses to HIBP. The phishing page requested both email addresses and passwords.
Ubook
July 28, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2024, 700k unique email addresses from the audiobook platform Ubook were posted to a popular hacking forum. Allegedly scraped from the service, the data appears to be sourced from the Ubook Exchange (UBX) and also includes names, genders, dates of birth and links to profile photos.
ixigo
January 3, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2019, the travel and hotel booking site ixigo suffered a data breach. The data appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace the following month and included over 17M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, phone numbers, connections to Facebook profiles and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
MobiFriends
January 6, 2020
•[ leak, technology ]
In January 2020, the Barcelona-based dating app MobiFriends suffered a data breach that exposed 3.5 million unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, genders, dates of birth and MD5 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
KiwiFarms
September 10, 2019
•[ leak, technology ]
In September 2019, the forum for discussing "lolcows" (people who can be milked for laughs) Kiwi Farms suffered a data breach. The disclosure notice advised that email and IP addresses, dates of birth and content created by members were all exposed in the incident.
iD Tech
January 3, 2023
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In February 2023, the tech camps for kids service iD Tech had almost 1M records posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 415k unique email addresses, names, dates of birth and plain text passwords which appear to have been breached in the previous month. iD Tech did not respond to multiple attempts to report the incident.
Shotbow
May 9, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In May 2016, the multiplayer server for Minecraft service Shotbow announced they'd suffered a data breach. The incident resulted in the exposure of over 1 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA-256 password hashes.
Quantum Booter
March 18, 2014
•[ leak, ddos, technology ]
In March 2014, the booter service Quantum Booter (also referred to as Quantum Stresser) suffered a breach which lead to the disclosure of their internal database. The leaked data included private discussions relating to malicious activity Quantum Booter users were performing against online adversaries, including the IP addresses of those using the service to mount DDoS attacks.
Protemps
October 4, 2021
•[ hack, md5, technology ]
In October 2021, the Singaporean recruitment website Protemps suffered a data breach that exposed almost 50,000 unique email addresses. The impacted data includes names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, passport numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes, among troves of other jobseeker data. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "white_peacock@riseup.net".
Nexus Mods
July 22, 2013
•[ hack, technology ]
In December 2015, the game modding site Nexus Mods released a statement notifying users that they had been hacked. They subsequently dated the hack as having occurred in July 2013 although there is evidence to suggest the data was being traded months in advance of that. The breach contained usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as a salted hashes.
LinkedIn Scraped and Faked Data (2023)
November 4, 2023
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2023, a post to a popular hacking forum alleged that millions of LinkedIn records had been scraped and leaked. On investigation, the data turned out to be a combination of legitimate data scraped from LinkedIn and email addresses constructed from impacted individuals' names.
VNG
May 19, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2018, news broke of a massive data breach impacting the Vietnamese company known as VNG after data was discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum where it was extensively redistributed. The breach dated back to an incident in May of 2015 and included of over 163 million customers. The data in the breach contained a wide range of personal attributes including usernames, birth dates, genders and home addresses along with unsalted MD5 hashes and 25 million unique email addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
ILikeCheats
October 18, 2014
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2014, the game cheats website known as ILikeCheats suffered a data breach that exposed 189k accounts. The vBulletin based forum leaked usernames, IP and email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com.
Traderie
September 24, 2022
•[ leak, technology ]
In September 2022, the in-game trading marketplace Traderie suffered a data breach that exposed almost 400k records (this preceded a subsequent breach the following year). The incident exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and links to social media profiles. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "oathnet.ru".
ToonDoo
August 21, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In August 2019, the comic strip creation website ToonDoo suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum in November where the personal information of over 6M subscribers was shared. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, usernames, genders, the location of the individual and salted password hashes.
Funimation
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2016, the anime site Funimation suffered a data breach that impacted 2.5 million accounts. The data contained usernames, email addresses, dates of birth and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.
Z-lib
June 20, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2024, almost 10M user records from Z-lib were discovered exposed online. Now defunct, Z-lib was a malicious clone of Z-Library, a well-known shadow online platform for pirating books and academic papers. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses, countries of residence, Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrency wallet addresses, purchases and bcrypt password hashes.
Team Software
July 26, 2024
•[ leak, technology ]
Business software maker Team Software (WorkWave) revealed this week that a recent data breach impacts nearly 100,000 individuals.
Organizations in Israel
October 31, 2024
•[ espionage, malware, technology ]
Researchers at Check Point reveal that the threat actor dubber WIRTE, affiliated with Hamas has expanded its malicious cyber operations beyond espionage to carry out disruptive attacks with the SameCoin malware that exclusively target Israeli entities.
