In mid-2020, a 437GB corpus of data attributed to an entity named “Acuity” was created and later extensively distributed. However, the source could not be confidently verified as any known companies named Acuity. The data totalled over 14M unique email addresses with each row containing extensive personal information across more than 400 columns of data including names, phone numbers, physical addresses, genders and dates of birth.
In November 2022, the Moroccan e-commerce service Avito suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 2.7M customers. The data included name, email, phone, IP address and geographic location.
In November 2023, over 800k user records were scraped from the Chess website and posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included email address, name, username and the geographic location of the user.
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In November 2023, a post to a popular hacking forum alleged that millions of LinkedIn records had been scraped and leaked. On investigation, the data turned out to be a combination of legitimate data scraped from LinkedIn and email addresses constructed from impacted individuals’ names.
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In December 2020, India’s “largest esports community” GamingMonk (since acquired by and redirected to MPL Esports), suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 655k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth and bcrypt password hashes.
In October 2021, data from the German fitness supplies store Fitmart was obtained and later redistributed online. The data included 214k unique email addresses accompanied by plain text passwords, allegedly “dehashed” from the original stored version.
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