Soundwave 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 2015-07-16, Soundwave was affected by a data breach. Approximately 130,705 accounts were exposed. 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.

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Data breachResolvedDecember 1, 2015

DaniWeb data breach (2015)

In late 2015, the technology and social site DaniWeb suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of 1.1 million accounts including email and IP addresses which were also accompanied by salted MD5 hashes of passwords.

Victim: DaniWeb
Records: 1.1M

Data breachResolvedNovember 11, 2015

Beautiful People data breach (2015)

In November 2015, the dating website Beautiful People was hacked and over 1.1M accounts were leaked. The data was being traded in underground circles and included a huge amount of personal information related to dating.

Victim: Beautiful People
Records: 1.1M

Data breachResolvedNovember 4, 2015

InterPals data breach (2015)

In late 2015, the online penpal site InterPals had their website hacked and 3.4 million accounts exposed. The compromised data included email addresses, geographical locations, birthdates and salted hashes of passwords.

Victim: InterPals
Records: 3.4M

Data breachResolvedNovember 4, 2015

xat data breach (2015)

In November 2015, the online chatroom known as "xat" was hacked and 6 million user accounts were exposed. Used as a chat engine on websites, the leaked data included usernames, email and IP addresses along with hashed passwords.

Victim: xat
Records: 6.0M

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DaniWeb data breach (2015)

Beautiful People data breach (2015)

InterPals data breach (2015)

xat data breach (2015)