Breach Intelligence
2,844
Total breached databases
Badoo 2013
Sensitive
In June 2016, a data breach reportedly linked to the social website Badoo was discovered circulating among data traders. Believed to have been obtained years earlier, the breach exposed 112 million unique email addresses, along with names, birthdates, and passwords hashed with MD5.
In July 2019, MGM Resorts discovered a data breach of one of their cloud services. The breach included 10.6M guest records with 3.1M unique email addresses stemming back to 2017. The exposed data included email and physical addresses, names, phone numbers and dates of birth and was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum in February 2020 where it was extensively redistributed.
In April 2018, the textbook rental service Chegg suffered a data breach that impacted 40 million subscribers. The exposed data included email addresses, usernames, names and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
In July 2020, the self-proclaimed "World's #1 Marketing Video Maker" Promo suffered a data breach which was then shared extensively on a hacking forum. The incident exposed 22 million records containing almost 15 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, genders, names and salted SHA-256 password hashes.
In January 2016, a significant number of unpatched vBulletin forums were compromised by an actor known as "CrimeAgency." A total of approximately 140 forums had data, including usernames, email addresses, and passwords (predominantly stored as salted MD5 hashes), extracted and subsequently distributed.