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Oxfam - 1,834,006 breached accounts March 2, 2021

In January 2021, Oxfam Australia was the victim of a data breach which exposed 1.8M unique email addresses of supporters of the charity. The data was put up for sale on a popular hacking forum and also included names, phone numbers, addresses, genders and dates of birth. A small number of people also had partial […]

Ticketcounter - 1,921,722 breached accounts March 1, 2021

In August 2020, the Dutch ticketing service Ticketcounter inadvertently published a database backup to a publicly accessible location where it was then found and downloaded in February 2021. The data contained 1.9M unique email addresses which were offered for sale on a hacking forum alongside names, physical and IP addresses, genders, dates of birth, payment […]

SuperVPN & GeckoVPN - 20,339,937 breached accounts February 28, 2021

In February 2021, a series of "free" VPN services were breached including SuperVPN and GeckoVPN, exposing over 20M records. The data appeared together in a single file with a small number of records also included from FlashVPN, suggesting that all three brands may share the same platform. Impacted data also included email addresses, the country […]

Filmai.in - 645,786 breached accounts February 23, 2021

In approximately 2019 or 2020, the Lithuanian movie streaming service Filmai.in suffered a data breach exposing 645k email addresses, usernames and plain text passwords.

NurseryCam - 10,585 breached accounts February 23, 2021

In February 2021, a series of egregiously bad security flaws were identified in the NurseryCam system designed for parents to remotely monitor their children whilst attending nursery. The flaws led to the exposure of over 10k parent records before the service was shut down. The email addresses alone were provided to Have I Been Pwned […]

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