In 2024, the 40+ dating website Senior Dating suffered a data breach. Attributed to an exposed Firebase database, the breach included extensive personal information on 766k users of the service including email addresses, photos, genders, links to Facebook accounts, dates of birth and precise latitude and longitude, among other personal attributes. The website was shut down after the breach was acknowledged by the site operator in December, along with a breach of the "ladies.com" website run by the same organisation.
In 2024, the lesbian dating website ladies.com suffered a data breach. Attributed to an exposed Firebase database, the breach included extensive personal information on 119k users of the service including email addresses, photos, sexual orientation, genders, dates of birth and precise latitude and longitude, among other personal attributes. The website was shut down in mid-2024 and the breach later acknowledged by the site operator in December, along with a breach of the "Senior Dating" website run by the same organisation.
In October 2024, almost 300k unique email addresses from Australian mortgage broking group Finsure were obtained from the ActivePipe real estate marketing platform. The impacted data also included names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The incident did not directly affect any of Finsure's systems or expose any passwords or financial data.
In early 2024, a large corpus of data from DemandScience (a company owned by Pure Incubation), appeared for sale on a popular hacking forum. Later attributed to a leak from a decommissioned legacy system, the breach contained extensive data that was largely business contact information aggregated from public sources. Specifically, the data included 122M unique corporate email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, employers and job titles. It also included names and for many individuals, a link to their LinkedIn profile.
In October 2024, 421k unique email addresses from the virtual earth game Earth 2 were derived from embedded Gravatar images. Appearing alongside player usernames, the root cause was related to how Gravatar presents links to avatars as MD5 hashes within consuming services, a feature Earth 2 advised has now been disabled on their platform. This incident did not expose any further personal information, passwords or financial data.
In October 2024, almost 20GB of data containing 1.3M unique email addresses from motorcycle supplies store Dennis Kirk was circulated. Dating back to September 2021, the data also contained purchases from the online store along with customer names, phone numbers and postcodes. Dennis Kirk did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact about the breach. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "IntelBroker, almighty444 & EnergyWeaponUser".
In June 2022, the malicious "carding" (referring to credit card fraud) website Altenen suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 1.3M unique email addresses, usernames, bcrypt password hashes and cryptocurrency wallet addresses.
In June 2024, almost 10M user records from Z-lib were discovered exposed online. Now defunct, Z-lib was a malicious clone of Z-Library, a well-known shadow online platform for pirating books and academic papers. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses, countries of residence, Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrency wallet addresses, purchases and bcrypt password hashes.
In October 2018, the Russian Minecraft service VimeWorld suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 3.1M records of usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either MD5 or bcrypt hashes.
In July 2020, the Russian Minecraft service StreamCraft suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 1.8M records of usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either MD5 or bcrypt hashes.
In October 2024, The Club Penguin Experience (TCPE) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 6k subscribers' email addresses alongside usernames, age groups, passwords stored as bcrypt hashes and in some cases, plain text password hints. TCPE sent prompt disclosure notices to impacted customers following the breach.
In March 2024, the Canadian national citizens' campaign for proportional representation Fair Vote Canada suffered a data breach. The incident was attributed to "a well-meaning volunteer" who inadvertently exposed data from 2020 which included 134k unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, phone numbers and, for some individuals, date and amount of a donation.
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.