Data breaches in 2008

3 tracked incidents from 2008

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

BreachHave I Been PwnedOctober 24, 2018

Baby Names

In approximately 2008, the site to help parents name their children known as Baby Names suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 846k email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. When contacted in October 2018, Baby Names advised that "the...

846,742 accounts affectedOccurred 2008

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

BreachHave I Been PwnedMay 31, 2016

MySpace

In approximately 2008, MySpace suffered a data breach that exposed almost 360 million accounts . In May 2016 the data was offered up for sale on the "Real Deal" dark market website and included email addresses, usernames and SHA1 hashes of the first 10...

359,420,698 accounts affectedOccurred 2008

Sunday, November 22, 2015

BreachHave I Been PwnedNovember 22, 2015

Foxy Bingo

In April 2007, the online gambling site Foxy Bingo was hacked and 252,000 accounts were obtained by the hackers. The breached records were subsequently sold and traded and included personal information data such as plain text passwords, birth dates and home...

252,216 accounts affectedOccurred 2008