OwnedCore
August 1, 2013
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately August 2013, the World of Warcraft exploits forum known as OwnedCore was hacked and more than 880k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Lord of the Rings Online
August 1, 2013
•[ leak, technology ]
In August 2013, the interactive video game Lord of the Rings Online suffered a data breach that exposed over 1.1M players' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and password hashes.
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.
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.
Badoo
June 1, 2013
•[ hack, technology ]
In June 2016, a data breach allegedly originating from the social website Badoo was found to be circulating amongst traders. Likely obtained several years earlier, the data contained 112 million unique email addresses with personal data including names, birthdates and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. Whilst there are many indicators suggesting Badoo did indeed suffer a data breach, the legitimacy of the data could not be emphatically proven so this breach has been categorised as "unverified".
AhaShare.com
May 30, 2013
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In May 2013, the torrent site AhaShare.com suffered a breach which resulted in more than 180k user accounts being published publicly. The breach included a raft of personal information on registered users plus despite assertions of not distributing personally identifiable information, the site also leaked the IP addresses used by the registered identities.
Dungeons & Dragons Online
April 2, 2013
•[ leak, technology ]
In April 2013, the interactive video game Dungeons & Dragons Online suffered a data breach that exposed almost 1.6M players' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and password hashes.
tumblr
February 28, 2013
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In early 2013, tumblr suffered a data breach which resulted in the exposure of over 65 million accounts. The data was later put up for sale on a dark market website and included email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA1 hashes.
Heroes of Gaia
January 4, 2013
•[ leak, technology ]
In early 2013, the online fantasy multiplayer game Heroes of Gaia suffered a data breach. The newest records in the data set indicate a breach date of 4 January 2013 and include usernames, IP and email addresses but no passwords.
FaceUP
January 1, 2013
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
In 2013, the Danish social media site FaceUP suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 87k unique email addresses alongside genders, dates of birth, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. When notified of the incident, FaceUP advised they had identified a SQL injection vulnerability at the time and forced password resets on impacted customers.
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.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
January 1, 2013
•[ hack, technology ]
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