The Club Penguin Experience
October 14, 2024
•[ leak, technology ]
In October 2024, The Club Penguin Experience (TCPE) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 6k subscribers' email addresses alongside usernames, age groups, passwords stored as bcrypt hashes and in some cases, plain text password hints. TCPE sent prompt disclosure notices to impacted customers following the breach.
JobStreet
March 7, 2012
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2017, the Malaysian website lowyat.net ran a story on a massive set of breached data affecting millions of Malaysians after someone posted it for sale on their forums. The data spanned multiple separate breaches including the JobStreet jobs website which contained almost 4 million unique email addresses. The dates in the breach indicate the incident occurred in March 2012. The data later appeared freely downloadable on a Tor hidden service and contained extensive information on job seekers including names, genders, birth dates, phone numbers, physical addresses and passwords.
Exvagos
July 21, 2022
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2022, the direct download website Exvagos suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 2.1M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and MD5 password hashes.
Eatigo
October 16, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In October 2018, the restaurant reservation service Eatigo suffered a data breach that exposed 2.8 million accounts. The data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, social media profiles, genders and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
BreachForums Clone
June 17, 2023
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2023, a clone of the previously shuttered popular hacking forum "BreachForums" suffered a data breach that exposed over 4k records. The breach was due to an exposed backup of the MyBB database which included email and IP addresses, usernames and Argon2 password hashes.
Yam
June 2, 2013
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2013, the Taiwanese website Yam.com suffered a data breach which was shared to a popular hacking forum in 2021. The data included 13 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth and unsalted MD5 password hashes.
Taringa
August 1, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In September 2017, news broke that Taringa had suffered a data breach exposing 28 million records. Known as "The Latin American Reddit", Taringa's breach disclosure notice indicated the incident dated back to August that year. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords.
Lanwar
July 28, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2018, staff of the Lanwar gaming site discovered a data breach they believe dates back to sometime over the previous several months. The data contained 45k names, email addresses, usernames and plain text passwords. A Lanwar staff member self-submitted the breach to HIBP and has also contacted the relevant authorities about the incident after identifying a phishing attempt to extort Bitcoin from a user.
LandAirSea
January 12, 2025
•[ hack, technology ]
In January 2025, the GPS tracking service LandAirSea suffered a data breach that exposed 337k unique customer email addresses alongside names, usernames and password hashes. The breach also exposed partial credit card data (card type, last 4 digits and expiration), and GPS device identifiers and locations. LandAirSea is aware of the breach and has remediated the underlying vulnerability. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "zathienaephi@proton.me".
Genesis Market
April 5, 2023
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
In April 2023, the stolen identity marketplace Genesis Market was shut down by the FBI and a coalition of law enforcement agencies across the globe in "Operation Cookie Monster". The service traded in "browser fingerprints" which enabled criminals to impersonate victims and access their online services. As many of the impacted accounts did not include email addresses, "8M" is merely an approximation intended to indicate scale. Other personal data compromised by the service included names, addresses and credit card information, although not all individuals had each of these fields exposed.
Dubsmash
December 1, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2018, the video messaging service Dubsmash suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 162 million unique email addresses alongside usernames and PBKDF2 password hashes. 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".
myRepoSpace
July 6, 2015
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In July 2015, the Cydia repository known as myRepoSpace was hacked and user data leaked publicly. Cydia is designed to facilitate the installation of apps on jailbroken iOS devices. The repository service was allegedly hacked by @its_not_herpes and 0x8badfl00d in retaliation for the service refusing to remove pirated tweaks.
Elance
January 1, 2009
•[ leak, malware, technology ]
Sometime in 2009, staffing platform Elance suffered a data breach that impacted 1.3 million accounts. Appearing online 8 years later, the data contained usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and SHA1 hashes of passwords, amongst other personal data.
DragonNest
August 23, 2013
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In August 2013, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORGP) DragonNest suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed over 500k unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses and plain text passwords. The service later suffered a massive data loss.
Android Forums
October 30, 2011
•[ hack, technology ]
In October 2011, the Android Forums website was hacked and 745k user accounts were subsequently leaked publicly. The compromised data included email addresses, user birth dates and passwords stored as a salted MD5 hash.
ZAP-Hosting
November 22, 2021
•[ leak, technology ]
In November 2021, web host ZAP-Hosting suffered a data breach that exposed over 60GB of data containing 746k unique email addresses. The breach also contained support chat logs, IP addresses, names, purchases, physical addresses and phone numbers.
Yahoo
July 11, 2012
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In July 2012, Yahoo! had their online publishing service "Voices" compromised via a SQL injection attack. The breach resulted in the disclosure of nearly half a million usernames and passwords stored in plain text. The breach showed that of the compromised accounts, a staggering 59% of people who also had accounts in the Sony breach reused their passwords across both services.
Evite
August 11, 2013
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2019, the social planning website for managing online invitations Evite identified a data breach of their systems. Upon investigation, they found unauthorised access to a database archive dating back to 2013. The exposed data included a total of 101 million unique email addresses, most belonging to recipients of invitations. Members of the service also had names, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored in plain text exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
Battlefield Heroes
June 26, 2011
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In June 2011 as part of a final breached data dump, the hacker collective "LulzSec" obtained and released over half a million usernames and passwords from the game Battlefield Heroes. The passwords were stored as MD5 hashes with no salt and many were easily converted back to their plain text versions.
Russian America
January 1, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2017, the website for Russian speakers in America known as Russian America suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 183k unique records including names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored in both plain text and as MD5 hashes. Russian America was contacted about the breach but did not respond.
