Not SOCRadar
August 3, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2024, over 332M rows of email addresses were posted to a popular hacking forum. The post alleged the addresses were scraped from cybersecurity firm SOCRadar, however an investigation on their behalf concluded that "the actor merely utilised functionalities inherent in the platform's standard offerings, designed to gather information from publicly available sources". There is no suggestion the incident compromised SOCRadar's security or posed any risk to their customers. In total, the data set contained 282M unique addresses of valid email address format.
Daily Quiz
January 13, 2021
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, the quiz website Daily Quiz suffered a data breach that exposed over 8 million unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
AndroidLista
July 28, 2021
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2021, the Android applications and games review site AndroidLista suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 6.6M user records containing email addresses, names, usernames and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes, all of which were subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum. AndroidLista did not respond when contacted about the breach.
Kickstarter
February 16, 2014
•[ hack, technology ]
In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.
xat
November 4, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In November 2015, the online chatroom known as "xat" was hacked and 6 million user accounts were exposed. Used as a chat engine on websites, the leaked data included usernames, email and IP addresses along with hashed passwords.
Wishbone (2016)
August 7, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults.
Sony
June 2, 2011
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In 2011, Sony suffered breach after breach after breach — it was a very bad year for them. The breaches spanned various areas of the business ranging from the PlayStation network all the way through to the motion picture arm, Sony Pictures. A SQL Injection vulnerability in sonypictures.com lead to tens of thousands of accounts across multiple systems being exposed complete with plain text passwords.
Programming Forums
December 1, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
Lifebear
February 28, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In early 2019, the Japanese schedule app Lifebear appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace amongst a raft of other hacked websites. The breach exposed almost 3.7M unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "nano@databases.pw".
Insanelyi
July 22, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2014, the iOS forum Insanelyi was hacked by an attacker known as Kim Jong-Cracks. A popular source of information for users of jailbroken iOS devices running Cydia, the Insanelyi breach disclosed over 104k users' emails addresses, user names and weakly hashed passwords (salted MD5).
Tuned Global
March 16, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In January 2021, data from a number of breached services including Tuned Global were released to a public hacking forum. The breach appears to date back to 2016 and includes 985k records containing email addresses, names, a small number of physical addresses and phone numbers and passwords stored in plain text.
SaverSpy
September 18, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a massive collection of personal details exposed in an unprotected Mongo DB instance. The data appears to have been used in marketing campaigns (possibly for spam purposes) but had little identifying data about it other than a description of "Yahoo_090618_ SaverSpy". The data set provided to HIBP had almost 2.5M unique email addresses (all of which were from Yahoo!) alongside names, genders and physical addresses.
Hopamedia
August 30, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2024, data relating to an unknown service referred to as "Hopamedia" and dating back to 2020 appeared in a publicly exposed database. The data included almost 24M records of email address, name, phone number, the country of the individual and their telecommunications carrier.
Armor Games
January 1, 2019
•[ hack, technology ]
In January 2019, the game portal website Armor Games suffered a data breach. A total of 10.6 million email addresses were impacted by the breach which also exposed usernames, IP addresses, birthdays of administrator accounts and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
WildStar
July 11, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the IP.Board forum for the gaming website WildStar suffered a data breach that exposed over 738k forum members' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and passwords.
WHMCS
May 21, 2012
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2012, the web hosting, billing and automation company WHMCS suffered a data breach that exposed 134k email addresses. The breach included extensive information about customers and payment histories including partial credit card numbers.
Boxee
March 29, 2014
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.
Shadi.com
July 9, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2016, the Muslim dating site Shadi.com suffered a data breach that exposed over 2M members' email addresses. The breach also exposed passwords stored as MD5 hashes alongside their plain text equivalents. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "fall1984@protonmail.com".
IIMJobs
December 31, 2018
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
In December 2018, the Indian job portal IIMJobs suffered a data breach that exposed 4.1 million unique email addresses. The data also included names, phone numbers, geographic locations, dates of birth, job titles, job applications and cover letters plus passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Comcast
November 8, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In November 2015, the US internet and cable TV provider Comcast suffered a data breach that exposed 590k customer email addresses and plain text passwords. A further 27k accounts appeared with home addresses with the entire data set being sold on underground forums.
