In August 2016, breached data from the vBulletin forum for GSM-Hosting appeared for sale alongside dozens of other hacked services. The breach impacted 2.6M users of the service and included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.
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In January 2019, the now defunct MMO and RPG game SwordFantasy suffered a data breach that exposed 2.7M unique email addresses. Other impacted data included username, IP address and salted MD5 password hashes.
In March 2024, millions of rows of data from the New Zealand media company MediaWorks was publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The incident exposed 163k unique email addresses provided by visitors who filled out online competitions and included names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and the responses to questions in the competition. Some victims of the breach subsequently received ransom demands requesting payment to have their data deleted.
In March 2024, tens of millions of records allegedly breached from AT&T were posted to a popular hacking forum. Dating back to August 2021, the data was originally posted for sale before later being freely released. AT&T maintains that there has not been a breach of their systems and that the data originated from elsewhere. The incident exposed names, email and physical addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and US social security numbers.
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In September 2022, the online photo sharing platform ClickASnap suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 3.3M personal records including email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as SHA-512 hashes. Further, a collection of paid subscriptions were also included and contained names, physical addresses and amounts paid.
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