At the end of 2020, the credit analysis company known as Serasa Experian had its data leaked online. The breach included CPF Numbers, Full names, Genders and Dates of birth. In total, 223 million users were affected. A hacker known as JBR was the one who initially posted the file.
In October 2016, the adult entertainment company Friend Finder Networks suffered a massive data breach. The incident impacted multiple separate online assets owned by the company, the largest of which was the Adult FriendFinder website alleged to be "the world's largest sex & swinger community". Exposed data included usernames, passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes and 170 million unique email addresses. This incident is separate to the 2015 data breach Adult FriendFinder also suffered
In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
In approximately August 2021, Intelligence X (intelx.io) was targeted by an attacker who scraped the "Pastes" section on their website. This data was scraped by searching common email domains and then exporting the results. The released archive contained over 80,000 pastes that were scraped from pastebin.com, pastie.org, and skidpaste.org by either IntelX or third parties they bought the data from. In total, 46 Million Unique Email addresses were present in the archive, many of the files being email:password combolists or small databases people posted on the pasting websites. The data uncompressed is around 6GB.