In December 2014, the Russian hacker community Lolzteam suffered a data breach. The platform is known for its involvement in various underground internet activities. The breach exposed approximately 25,000 users. Some of the leaked data includes usernames, email addresses, genders, social profiles, birthdates, IP addresses and passwords.
In late March 2022, the Sri Lankan payment gateway PayHere experienced a significant data breach. The platform, which facilitates online payments for merchants and businesses, reportedly had more than 65GB of payment records exposed. The breach affected over 1.5 million unique email addresses. Among the compromised data were names, phone numbers, geographic locations, IP addresses, purchase histories, and partially obfuscated credit card details, including card type, the first six and last four digits, and expiry dates. Additional exposed information is believed to include social media profiles, government-issued identification numbers, birthdates, and business-related information.
In September 2020, ChqBook, an Indian banking platform that provides financial services to small business owners and professionals, suffered a data breach affecting approximately 4.8 million users. Among the compromised data were email addresses, full names, phone numbers, physical locations, financial income, social media profiles, birthdates, genders, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
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In March 2025, New York University (NYU) suffered a data breach when its website was compromised for over two hours by a hacker protesting alleged race-based admissions. The attacker published data from over 3 million applicants dating back to 1989. NYU restored the site, launched an internal investigation, and began notifying affected individuals. At least 10 class action lawsuits have been filed. Although much of the data was redacted, it reportedly included names, email addresses, test scores, GPAs, geographic locations, financial aid details, ethnicities, and, in some cases, Social Security numbers.
Sometime in 2015, TTNET A.Ş., operating under the Türk Telekom brand and recognized as the largest Internet service provider in Turkey, experienced a data breach. The incident reportedly led to the exposure of approximately 5 million user records. Some of the leaked data includes names of institutions and individuals, phone numbers, email addresses, physical locations, and details related to internet subscription plans offered by Türk Telekom.
In December 2017, the virtual keyboard application ai.type, known for offering customizable keyboard features, reportedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that the incident affected over 20 million users. Among the compromised data were names, birthdates, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, geographic locations, device identifiers and information, genders, profile photos, social media profiles, and details about telecom providers.
In approximately 2015, Mop.com, a Chinese gaming website and online forum, suffered a data breach exposing over 2.1 million user records. The incident reportedly compromised more than 1.8 million unique email addresses along with plaintext passwords.
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