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REvil/Sodinokibi operators detonated against Travelex on New Year's Eve 2019 after dwelling in the network for six months via an unpatched Pulse Secure VPN. Travelex paid $2.3 million; parent Finablr failed; PwC put Travelex into administration with the loss of over 1,300 jobs.
In December 2019, the booking website Sonicbids suffered a data breach which they attributed to "a data privacy event involving our third-party cloud hosting services". The breach contained 752k user records including names and usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes.
In December 2019, a large collection of data from Nigerian gambling company Surebet247 was sent to HIBP. Alongside the Surebet247, database backups from gambling sites BetAlfa, BetWay, BongoBongo and TopBet was also included.
TA505 used Clop ransomware to encrypt 267 Maastricht University servers over Christmas 2019 after two phishing emails on 15โ16 October had compromised the network. The university paid 30 BTC (~$220,000). The ransom Bitcoin โ later seized from a money mule โ was returned and had appreciated, leaving the university ahead by ~$300,000.
In approximately December 2019, an alleged data breach of the lawyer directory service Avvo was published to an online hacking forum and used in an extortion scam (it's possible the exposure dates back earlier than that).
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming platform GameSprite suffered a data breach that exposed over 6M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
In December 2019, the now defunct German gaming website Go Ninja suffered a data breach that exposed 5M unique email addresses. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
Canada's largest medical-testing laboratory disclosed that attackers had accessed health data on roughly 15 million customers, paid an undisclosed ransom to retrieve the stolen records, and was later found by privacy regulators to have failed to safeguard the information.
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming website SoarGames suffered a data breach that exposed 4.8M unique email addresses. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
In December 2019, the forum for the JoyGames website suffered a data breach that exposed 4.5M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming website Unigame (maker of Hunter Online) suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 844k email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
An EmotetโTrickBotโRyuk malware chain crippled the Rudolf and Stefanie Hospital in Beneลกov, Czech Republic, knocking out X-ray, ultrasound, and laboratory systems and paralysing the facility for weeks. The hospital did not pay the ransom and reported no patient-record loss.
In November 2019, the Vietnamese education website TaiLieu allegedly suffered a data breach exposing 7.3M customer records. Impacted data included names and usernames, email addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
DoppelPaymer ransomware paralysed corporate IT systems at Mexican state oil company Pemex, freezing payments and communications for weeks. Attackers demanded 565 BTC (~$5M). Pemex refused to pay; total recovery cost reached approximately $71 million.
In November 2019, the Serbian technology news website Benchmark suffered a breach of its forum that exposed 93k customer records. The breach exposed IP and email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
In mid-2021, reports emerged of a data breach of Indonesia's telecommunications company, IndiHome. Over 26M rows of data alleged to have been sourced from the company was posted to a popular hacking forum and contained 12.6M unique email addresses alongside names, IP addresses, genders andโฆ
In approximately November 2019, the Russian "Remote preparatory faculty for IT specialties" Universarium suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 565k email addresses and passwords in plain text. Universarium did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact over a period of many weeks.
In November 2019, the website for Indian Rail left more than 2M records exposed on an unprotected Firebase database instance. The exposed data included 583k unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored in plain text.
In October 2019, security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko identified an unprotected Elasticsearch server holding 1.2 billion records of personal data.
In October 2019, the Dutch prostitution forum Hookers.nl suffered a data breach which exposed the personal information of sex workers and their customers.
In October 2019, the Minnesota-based news service StarTribune suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold on the dark web. The breach exposed over 2 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
In September 2019, the Halloween costume store The Halloween Spot suffered a data breach. Originally misattributed to fancy dress store Smiffys, the breach contained 13GB of data with over 10k unique email addresses alongside names, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers and order histories.
In September 2019, the zoophilia and bestiality forum Zooville suffered a data breach. The usernames and email addresses of 71k members were accessed via an unpatched vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software then subsequently distributed online.
In September 2019, Polish torrent site AgusiQ-Torrents.pl suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 90k member records including email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
An unsecured Elasticsearch server run by Ecuadorian consultancy Novaestrat exposed 20.8 million records covering nearly the entire population of Ecuador, including 6.7 million children, financial records, and vehicle data.
In September 2019, the forum for discussing "lolcows" (people who can be milked for laughs) Kiwi Farms suffered a data breach. The disclosure notice advised that email and IP addresses, dates of birth and content created by members were all exposed in the incident.
A ransomware-style cyber incident forced Danish hearing-aid giant Demant to shut down IT systems worldwide, crippling production and order processing and causing an estimated loss of up to $95 million โ one of the costliest single ransomware events on record.
In September 2019, the RuneScape bot provider EpicBot suffered a data breach that impacted 817k subscribers. Data from the breach was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and included usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either salted MD5 or bcrypt hashes.
In September 2019, the hacker Gnosticplayers breached game developer Zynga, accessing data for nearly 173 million Words With Friends and Draw Something players. Exposed data included emails, usernames, phone numbers, and salted SHA-1 password hashes.
In 2019, the snow sports tracking app AlpineReplay suffered a data breach that exposed 900k unique email addresses. Later rolled into the Trace service, the breach included names, usernames, genders, dates of birth, weights and passwords stored as either unsalted MD5 or bcrypt hashes.
In August 2019, the comic strip creation website ToonDoo suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum in November where the personal information of over 6M subscribers was shared.
In August 2019, the German Mastercard bonus program "Priceless Specials" suffered a data breach. Personal data on almost 90k program members was subsequently extensively circulated online and included names, email and IP addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card data.
In August 2019, Audi USA suffered a data breach after a vendor left data unsecured and exposed on the internet. The data contained 2.7M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and vehicle information including VIN.
In August 2019, the now defunct European jobs website europa.jobs (Google cache link) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 226k unique email addresses alongside extensive personal information including names, dates of birth, job applications and passwords.
In August 2019, a data breach from the Spanish online pharmacy Promofarma appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace. The breach exposed over 2.7M records and contained almost 1.3M unique customer email addresses. The data also included customer names and was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Former AWS engineer Paige Thompson exploited a misconfigured Web Application Firewall to extract personal data on roughly 106 million Capital One credit-card applicants and customers from S3.
In July 2019, the children's gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten (CPRewritten) suffered a data breach (note: CPRewritten is an independent recreation of Disney's Club Penguin game).
In July 2019, the fashion and sneaker trading platform StockX suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold via a dark webmarketplace. The exposed data included 6.8 million unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, purchases and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
In July 2019, MGM Resorts discovered a data breach of one of their cloud services. The breach included 10.6M guest records with 3.1M unique email addresses stemming back to 2017.
In July 2019, MGM Resorts discovered a data breach of one of their cloud services. The breach included 10.6M guest records with 3.1M unique email addresses stemming back to 2017.
In July 2019, the hacking website Cracked.to suffered a data breach. There were 749k unique email addresses spread across 321k forum users and other tables in the database.
In July 2019, the music-based rhythm game Flash Flash Revolution suffered a data breach. The 2019 breach imapcted almost 1.9 million members and is in addition to the 2016 data breach of the same service.
In July 2019, a massive data breach of the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency began circulating with data on 5 million people. Allegedly obtained in June, the data was broadly shared online and included taxation information alongside names, phone numbers, physical addresses and 471 thousand uniqueโฆ
A single SQL injection against a rarely-used VAT service let an attacker exfiltrate tax, income, health and pension records on more than 6 million people โ almost the entire adult population of Bulgaria.
In July 2019, the hacking website BlackSpigotMC suffered a data breach. The XenForo forum based site was allegedly compromised by a rival hacking website and resulted in 8.5GB of data being leaked including the database and website itself.
In mid-2019, the Indian interactive online tutoring platform Vedantu suffered a data breach which exposed the personal data of 687k users. The JSON formatted database dump exposed extensive personal information including email and IP address, names, phone numbers, genders and passwords stored asโฆ
In approximately July 2019, the forums for the Planet Calypso game suffered a data breach. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
In 2019, online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles Quidd suffered a data breach. The breach exposed almost 4 million users' email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
In July 2019, the forum for webcomic XKCD suffered a data breach that impacted 562k subscribers. The breached phpBB forum leaked usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored in MD5 phpBB3 format. The data was provided to HIBP by white hat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
An insider at Desjardins โ the largest financial cooperative in Canada โ exfiltrated personal data on 9.7 million members and businesses over two years before being caught. The defining Canadian insider-threat case.
In June 2019, the France-based art valuation website Artvalue.com left their 158k member subscriber base publicly exposed in a text file on their website. The exposed data included names, usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
In June 2019, the "Art of Human Hacking" site Social Engineered suffered a data breach. The breach of the MyBB forum was published on a rival hacking forum and included 89k unique email addresses spread across 55k forum users and other tables in the database.
In June 2019, the hacking website Void.to suffered a data breach. There were 95k unique email addresses spread across 86k forum users and other tables in the database.
In June 2019, the library of Vienna (Wiener Bรผchereien) suffered a data breach. The compromised data included 224k unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. The breached data was subsequently posted to Twitter by the alleged perpetrator of the breach.
A sophisticated, likely state-sponsored actor breached the Australian National University's administrative systems in late 2018, exfiltrating up to 19 years of staff and student records in an intrusion praised by ANU's own report for its extraordinary operational security.
In October 2019, 1.4M accounts from the cryptocurrency wallet service GateHub were posted to a popular hacking forum. GateHub had previously acknowledged a data breach in June, albeit with a smaller number of impacted accounts.
In June 2019, now defunct website Condo.com suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The impacted data included 1.5M email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and for a small number of records, physical addresses.
The serial hacker GnosticPlayers breached Australian design platform Canva in May 2019, stealing data on roughly 137 million users including emails, names, locations and bcrypt-hashed passwords.
An insecure direct object reference (IDOR) flaw on First American Financial's website exposed roughly 885 million title-insurance and mortgage documents โ including Social Security numbers, bank account details, and driver's-license images โ dating back to 2003, accessible to anyone without authentication.
In May 2019, the Minecraft server website Minehut suffered a data breach. The company advised a database backup had been obtained after which they subsequently notified all impacted users. 397k email addresses from the incident were provided to HIBP.
In May 2019, the Lawyers Order of Rome suffered a data breach by a group claiming to be Anonymous Italy. Data on tens of thousands of Roman lawyers was taken from the breached system and redistributed online.
In May 2019, the online food ordering service EatStreet suffered a data breach affecting 6.4 million customers. An extensive amount of personal data was obtained including names, phone numbers, addresses, partial credit card data and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
In May 2019, the Chinese literature website Read Novel allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed 22M unique email addresses. Data also included usernames, genders, phone numbers and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
In mid-2019, the video game cheats website "Aimware" suffered a data breach that exposed hundreds of thousands of subscribers' personal information. Data included email and IP addresses, usernames, forum posts, private messages, website activity and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
A 2019 snapshot of Deezer user data, retained by a former third-party partner in violation of its contract, was leaked in November 2022 and exposed roughly 229 million records โ including names, emails, dates of birth, and locations. No passwords or payment data were affected.
In May 2019, news broke of a massive SMS spam operation known as "ApexSMS" which was discovered after a MongoDB instance of the same name was found exposed without a password.
In 2019, the public records search service Instant Checkmate suffered a data breach that later came to light in early 2023. The data included almost 12M unique customer email addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as scrypt hashes.
In 2019, the public records search service TruthFinder suffered a data breach that later came to light in early 2023. The data included over 8M unique customer email addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as scrypt hashes.
In mid-2019, the e-commerce website Storenvy suffered a data breach that exposed millions of customer records. A portion of the breached records were subsequently posted to a hacking forum with cracked password hashes, whilst the entire corpus of 23M rows was put up for sale.
In April 2019, the PDF management service Lumin PDF suffered a data breach. The breach wasn't publicly disclosed until September when 15.5M records of user data appeared for download on a popular hacking forum.
In October 2020, the Finnish psychotherapy service Vastaamo was the subject of a ransomware attack targeting first the company itself, followed by their patients directly.
In March 2019, the Japanese solder-related business Hakko Corporation suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 10k customer records including email and physical addresses, phone numbers, names, usernames, genders, dates of birth and plain text passwords.
In March 2019, the multiplayer platform game Everybody Edits suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 871k unique email addresses alongside usernames and IP addresses. The data was subsequently distributed online across a collection of files.
In August 2020, news broke of a data breach of Russian airline Utair that dated back to the previous year. The breach contained over 400k unique email addresses along with extensive personal information including names, physical addresses, dates of birth, passport numbers and loyalty programโฆ
Aluminium producer Norsk Hydro lost most of its global IT estate to the LockerGoga ransomware. Hydro publicly refused to pay, ran operations on paper for weeks, and set the editorial standard for transparent incident communication.
In March 2019, the online gaming website MindJolt suffered a data breach that exposed 28M unique email addresses. Also impacted were names and dates of birth, but no passwords.
In approximately March 2019, the online Brazilian travel agency Hurb (formerly Hotel Urbano) suffered a data breach. The data subsequently appeared online for download the following year and included over 20 million customer records with email and IP addresses, names, dates of birth, phone numbersโฆ
In March 2019, a spam operation known as "Intelimost" sent millions of emails appearing to come from people the recipients knew. Security researcher Bob Diachenko found over 3 million unique email addresses in an exposed Elasticsearch database, alongside plain text passwords used to access theโฆ
In early 2019, the Malaysian airline Malindo Air suffered a data breach that exposed tens of millions of customer records. Containing 4.3M unique email addresses, the breach also exposed extensive personal information including names, dates of birth, genders, physical addresses, phone numbers andโฆ
In February 2019, the Brazilian book store Estante Virtual suffered a data breach that impacted 5.4M customers. The exposed data included names, usernames, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and unsalted SHA-1 password hashes.
In early 2019, the Japanese schedule app Lifebear appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace amongst a raft of other hacked websites. The breach exposed almost 3.7M unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
In February 2019, the email address validation service verifications.io suffered a data breach. Discovered by Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia, the breach was due to the data being stored in a MongoDB instance left publicly facing without a password and resulted in 763 million unique email addressesโฆ
In February 2019, the education and game creation website Game Salad suffered a data breach. The incident impacted 1.5M accounts and exposed email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes.
In February 2019, the custom merchandise retailer CafePress suffered a data breach. The exposed data included 23 million unique email addresses with some records also containing names, physical addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes.
In February 2019, the hacking forum Demon Forums suffered a data breach. The compromise of the vBulletin forum exposed 52k unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
In February 2019, data from the live broadcasting service YouNow appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace. Whilst it's not clear what date the actual breach occurred on, the impacted data included 18M unique email addresses, IP addresses, names, usernames and links to social media profiles.
In August 2022, customer data of the Indian shopping site "LBB" (Little Black Book) was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained over 3M records with 39k unique email addresses alongside IP and physical addresses, names and device information with the most recent data dating back toโฆ
In February 2019, the devkitPro forum suffered a data breach. The phpBB based forum had 1,508 unique email addresses exposed in the breach alongside forum posts, private messages and passwords stored as weak salted hashes. The data breach was self-submitted to HIBP by the forum operator.
In January 2019, the Indonesian college and career platform Youthmanual suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1M records of data. The breached included 938k unique email addresses along with extensive personal information including names, genders, dates and places of birth, phone numbers, physicalโฆ
Confidential records of 14,200 HIV-positive people from Singapore's national HIV registry were stolen and leaked online by a foreigner who obtained them through his partner, a Ministry of Health doctor with privileged access.
In January 2019, the event organising platform Peatix suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 4.2M email addresses, names and salted password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
A 87GB aggregated credential dump posted to the MEGA cloud service exposed 772.9 million unique email addresses and 21.2 million unique passwords, assembled from thousands of prior breaches to fuel credential-stuffing attacks at industrial scale.
In January 2019, the travel and hotel booking site ixigo suffered a data breach. The data appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace the following month and included over 17M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, phone numbers, connections to Facebook profiles and passwords stored asโฆ
In January 2019, the game portal website Armor Games suffered a data breach. A total of 10.6 million email addresses were impacted by the breach which also exposed usernames, IP addresses, birthdays of administrator accounts and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.
In January 2020, motorcycle maker Royal Enfield left a database publicly exposed that resulted in the inadvertent publication of over 400k customers. The impacted data included email and physical addresses, names, motorcycle information, social media profiles, passwords, and other personalโฆ