Gamigo[94][364]
January 1, 2012
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
Gamigo[94][369]
January 1, 2012
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
Gamigo[91][367]
January 1, 2012
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
Gamigo[91][368]
January 1, 2012
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
VK
January 1, 2012
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately 2012, the Russian social media site known as VK was hacked and almost 100 million accounts were exposed. The data emerged in June 2016 where it was being sold via a dark market website and included names, phone numbers email addresses and plain text passwords.
126
January 1, 2012
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2012, it's alleged that the Chinese email service known as 126 suffered a data breach that impacted 6.4 million subscribers. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains email addresses and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
Zhenai.com
December 21, 2011
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2011, the Chinese dating site known as Zhenai.com suffered a data breach that impacted 5 million subscribers. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains email addresses and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
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.
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.
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.
QIP
June 1, 2011
•[ hack, technology ]
In mid-2011, the Russian instant messaging service known as QIP (Quiet Internet Pager) suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of over 26 million unique accounts including email addresses and passwords with the data eventually appearing in public years later.
Fling
March 10, 2011
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In 2011, the self-proclaimed "World's Best Adult Social Network" website known as Fling was hacked and more than 40 million accounts obtained by the attacker. The breached data included highly sensitive personal attributes such as sexual orientation and sexual interests as well as email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.
