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.
Network Solutions
January 1, 2009
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
MySpace
July 1, 2008
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately 2008, MySpace suffered a data breach that exposed almost 360 million accounts. In May 2016 the data was offered up for sale on the "Real Deal" dark market website and included email addresses, usernames and SHA1 hashes of the first 10 characters of the password converted to lowercase and stored without a salt. The exact breach date is unknown, but analysis of the data suggests it was 8 years before being made public.
AT&T
January 1, 2008
•[ leak, technology ]
lost / stolen computer
Auction.co.kr
January 1, 2008
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
Monster.com
January 1, 2007
•[ hack, technology ]
hacked
Hewlett Packard
January 1, 2006
•[ leak, technology, retail ]
lost / stolen media
AOL
January 1, 2006
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
accidentally published, (sometimes referred to as a "Data Valdez",[175][176][177] due to its size)
AOL
January 1, 2006
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
accidentally published, (sometimes referred to as a "Data Valdez",[176][177][178] due to its size)
AOL
January 1, 2006
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
accidentally published, (sometimes referred to as a "Data Valdez",[177][178][179] due to its size)
AOL
January 1, 2006
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
accidentally published, (sometimes referred to as a "Data Valdez",[178][179][180] due to its size)
AOL
January 1, 2006
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
accidentally published, (sometimes referred to as a "Data Valdez",[182][183][184] due to its size)