Steemit
July 14, 2016
•[ hack, financial, technology ]
Social media site Steemit temporarily shuts down after a major hack. The attackers compromise 260 accounts and make off with $85,000 worth of cryptocurrency.
ubuntuforums
July 14, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Popular Ubuntu Forum ubuntuforums.org is hacked and 2 million user details that includes usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses are stolen.
acparadise
July 12, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
SonnySpooks leaks the entire database of acparadise.com made of 55K records including username and passwords.
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".
Datadog
July 8, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
Datadog, the software-as-a-service monitoring and analytics platform, is hit by hackers and strongly suggests that customers initiate password resets.
Netia
July 7, 2016
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
A Ukrainian hacker going by the handle of Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) breaches the servers of Poland's telecom company Netia SA and leak a 14GB file containing customers' details.
WikiLeaks
July 6, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Because of a spat with the Anonymous, OurMine take down the Wikileaks website.
LeafyIsHere YouTube Channel
July 4, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp hacks LeafyIsHere, a popular YouTube Channel with over 3 million subscribers and defaces the main page.
Mac Forums
July 3, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In July 2016, the self-proclaimed "Ultimate Source For Your Mac" website Mac Forums suffered a data breach. The vBulletin-based system exposed over 326k usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was later discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum. Mac Forums did not respond when contacted about the incident via their contact us form.
crackingforum
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
The entire database of crackingforum.com (658,644 entries) is leaked on the darknet.
topbutton
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
The database of topbutton.com is leaked on the Dark Net.
libero
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
The database of the Italian portal libero.it is leaked online (about 750,000 users).
MTN Irancell
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
Law enforcers in Iran arrest a 19-year-old IT graduate for leaking personal data belonging to 20m 'MTN Irancell' customers in an elaborate scheme orchestrated with the help of the smartphone application Telegram. The database was allegedly stolen 3 years ago.
CrackingForum
July 1, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
In approximately mid-2016, the cracking community forum known as CrackingForum suffered a data breach. The vBulletin based forum exposed 660k email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes.
Funimation
July 1, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
In July 2016, the anime site Funimation suffered a data breach that impacted 2.5 million accounts. The data contained usernames, email addresses, dates of birth and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.
OnRPG
July 1, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In July 2016, the now defunct free online games list website OnRPG suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The incident exposed just over 1M email and IP addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Muslim Match
June 30, 2016
•[ leak, technology ]
A niche dating website called Muslim Match has suffered a data breach exposing roughly 150,000 user accounts and more than half a million private messages.
Lilly Singh's YouTube Channel
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
PoodleCorp defaces another popular YouTube Channel: Lilly Singh.
Twitter account of Brendan Iribe, CEO of virtual reality company Oculus
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Brendan Iribe, CEO of Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus, is the latest victim of the trail of Twitter accounts hjiacks.
StreetEasy
June 28, 2016
•[ hack, technology ]
In approximately June 2016, the real estate website StreetEasy suffered a data breach. In total, 988k unique email addresses were included in the breach alongside names, usernames and SHA-1 hashes of passwords, all of which appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace in February 2019. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
