MyVidster (2015) data breach (2015)

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2015-08-15, MyVidster (2015) was affected by a data breach. Approximately 19,863 accounts were exposed. In August 2015, the social video sharing and bookmarking site MyVidster was hacked and nearly 20,000 accounts were dumped online. The dump included usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords.

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Data breachResolvedDecember 6, 2015

Aternos data breach (2015)

In December 2015, the service for creating and running free Minecraft servers known as Aternos suffered a data breach that impacted 1.4 million subscribers. The data included usernames, email and IP addresses and hashed passwords.

Victim: Aternos
Records: 1.4M

Data breachResolvedNovember 7, 2015

Ancestry data breach (2015)

In November 2015, an Ancestry service known as RootsWeb suffered a data breach. The breach was not discovered until late 2017 when a file containing almost 300k email addresses and plain text passwords was identified.

Victim: Ancestry
Records: 297.8K

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Mac-Torrents data breach (2015)

In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no salt.

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Special K Data Feed Spam List data breach (2015)

In mid to late 2015, a spam list known as the Special K Data Feed was discovered containing almost 31M identities. The data includes personal attributes such as names, physical and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and phone numbers. Read more about spam lists in HIBP.

Victim: Special K Data Feed Spam List
Records: 30.7M

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Aternos data breach (2015)

Ancestry data breach (2015)

Mac-Torrents data breach (2015)

Special K Data Feed Spam List data breach (2015)