Breaches
Data breaches as they’re disclosed and verified, newest additions first — who was breached, how many accounts, and what was exposed.
- Bitcoin Talk 501K accounts
In May 2015, the Bitcoin forum Bitcoin Talk was hacked and over 500k unique email addresses were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of a raft of personal data including usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates, security questions and MD5 hashes of their answers plus hashes of the passwords themselves.
Dates of birth · Email addresses · Genders · IP addresses · Passwords · Security questions and answers · Usernames · Website activity
- Evony 29.4M accounts
In June 2016, the online multiplayer game Evony was hacked and over 29 million unique accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of usernames, email and IP addresses and MD5 hashes of passwords (without salt).
Email addresses · IP addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- HLTV 611K accounts
In June 2016, the "home of competitive Counter Strike" website HLTV was hacked and 611k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of names, usernames, email addresses and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
Email addresses · Names · Passwords · Usernames · Website activity
- SweClockers.com 255K accounts
In early 2015, the Swedish tech news site SweClockers was hacked and 255k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of usernames, email addresses and salted hashes of passwords stored with a combination of MD5 and SHA512.
Email addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- Torrent Invites 352K accounts
In December 2013, the torrent site Torrent Invites was hacked and over 352k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum contained usernames, email and IP addresses, birth dates and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
Dates of birth · Email addresses · IP addresses · Passwords · Usernames · Website activity
- CrimeAgency vBulletin Hacks 942K accounts
In January 2016, a large number of unpatched vBulletin forums were compromised by an actor known as "CrimeAgency". A total of 140 forums had data including usernames, email addresses and passwords (predominantly stored as salted MD5 hashes), extracted and then distributed. Refer to the complete list of the forums for further information on which sites were impacted.
Email addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- Soundwave 131K accounts
In approximately mid 2015, the music tracking app Soundwave suffered a data breach. The breach stemmed from an incident whereby "production data had been used to populate the test database" and was then inadvertently exposed in a MongoDB. The data contained 130k records and included email addresses, dates of birth, genders and MD5 hashes of passwords without a salt.
Dates of birth · Email addresses · Genders · Geographic locations · Names · Passwords · Social connections
- Wishbone (2016) 2.2M accounts
In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults.
Auth tokens · Dates of birth · Email addresses · Genders · Names · Phone numbers · Usernames
- Ster-Kinekor 1.6M accounts
In 2016, the South African cinema company Ster-Kinekor had a security flaw which leaked a large amount of customer data via an enumeration vulnerability in the API of their old website. Whilst more than 6 million accounts were leaked by the flaw, the exposed data only contained 1.6 million unique email addresses. The data also included extensive personal information such as names, addresses, birthdates, genders and plain text passwords.
Dates of birth · Email addresses · Genders · Names · Passwords · Phone numbers · Physical addresses · Spoken languages
- BTC-E 568K accounts
In October 2014, the Bitcoin exchange BTC-E was hacked and 568k accounts were exposed. The data included email and IP addresses, wallet balances and hashed passwords.
Account balances · Email addresses · IP addresses · Passwords · Usernames · Website activity
- Little Monsters 996K accounts
In approximately January 2017, the Lady Gaga fan site known as "Little Monsters" suffered a data breach that impacted 1 million accounts. The data contained usernames, email addresses, dates of birth and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
Dates of birth · Email addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- CloudPets 584K accounts
In January, the maker of teddy bears that record children's voices and sends them to family and friends via the internet CloudPets left their database publicly exposed and it was subsequently downloaded by external parties (the data was also subject to 3 different ransom demands). 583k records were provided to HIBP via a data trader and included email addresses and bcrypt hashes, but the full extent of user data exposed by the system was over 821k records and also included children's names and references to portrait photos and voice recordings.
Email addresses · Family members' names · Passwords
- Funimation 2.5M accounts
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.
Dates of birth · Email addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- Elance 1.3M accounts
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.
Email addresses · Employers · Geographic locations · Passwords · Phone numbers · Usernames
- HongFire 1000K accounts
In March 2015, the anime and manga forum HongFire suffered a data breach. The hack of their vBulletin forum led to the exposure of 1 million accounts along with email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 passwords.
Dates of birth · Email addresses · IP addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- Freedom Hosting II 381K accounts
In January 2017, the free hidden service host Freedom Hosting II suffered a data breach. The attack allegedly took down 20% of dark web sites running behind Tor hidden services with the attacker claiming that of the 10,613 impacted sites, more than 50% of the content was child pornography. The hack led to the exposure of MySQL databases for the sites which included a vast amount of information on the hidden services Freedom Hosting II was managing. The impacted data classes far exceeds those listed for the breach and differ between the thousands of impacted sites.
Email addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- CD Projekt RED 1.9M accounts
In March 2016, Polish game developer CD Projekt RED suffered a data breach. The hack of their forum led to the exposure of almost 1.9 million accounts along with usernames, email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords.
Email addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- PSP ISO 1.3M accounts
In approximately September 2015, the PlayStation PSP forum known as PSP ISO was hacked and almost 1.3 million accounts were exposed. Along with email and IP addresses, the vBulletin forum also exposed salted MD5 password hashes.
Email addresses · IP addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- Xbox 360 ISO 1.3M accounts
In approximately September 2015, the XBOX 360 forum known as XBOX360 ISO was hacked and 1.2 million accounts were exposed. Along with email and IP addresses, the vBulletin forum also exposed salted MD5 password hashes.
Email addresses · IP addresses · Passwords · Usernames
- Non Nude Girls 75K accounts
In May 2013, the non-consensual voyeurism site "Non Nude Girls" suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 75k accounts along with email and IP addresses, names and plain text passwords.
Email addresses · IP addresses · Names · Passwords · Usernames · Website activity