Hacktivism is the act of misusing a computer system or network for a socially or politically motivated reason. Individuals who […]
Hacktivism is the act of misusing a computer system or network for a socially or politically motivated reason. Individuals who […]
In January 2025, the eyewear seller Frame & Optic suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 16k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and geolocation data including country, state and postcode. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “oathnet.ru”.
In August 2024, the Dutch appliance store Welhof suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 100k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses and the value of purchases made. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “oathnet.ru”.
A private key, also known as a secret key, is a variable in cryptography used with an algorithm to encrypt […]
In July 2024, a threat actor gained access to the hotel management platform Otelier and retrieved customer data from well-known hotel brands including Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt. The data included 437k customer email addresses (a further 868k generated email addresses from the booking.com and Expedia platforms were not loaded into HIBP), names, physical addresses, phone numbers, booking information related to travel plans, purchases recorded by the platform and in a small number of cases, partial credit card data. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “ayame@xmpp.jp”.
In July 2024, MSI inadvertently exposed hundreds of thousands of customer records related to RMA claims that were subsequently found to be publicly accessible. The data included 250k unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers, physical addresses and warranty claims. When contacted about the incident, MSI advised that “there is no evidence the information was ever accessed” and that “the security incident we had did not trigger state data breach notification obligations” due to the absence of “(social security number, driver’s license number….etc)”.
In January 2025, a data breach from the Columbian website for Le Coq Sportif was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included almost 80k unique email addresses with the breach dating back to May 2023. Impacted data included physical and IP addresses, names, purchases, genders, dates of birth and bcrypt password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “oathnet.ru”.
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In January 2025, stealer logs with 71M email addresses were added to HIBP. Consisting of email address, password and the website the credentials were entered against, this breach marks the launch of a new HIBP feature enabling the retrieval of the specific websites the logs were collected against. The incident also resulted in 106M more passwords being added to the Pwned Passwords service.
In January 2025, a data breach of the publishing company Scholastic surfaced. The breach contained 4.2M unique email addresses with many of the records also including name, phone number and physical address.