Data breaches in 2014
41 tracked incidents from 2014
Coupon Mom / Armor Games
In 2014, a file allegedly containing data hacked from Coupon Mom was created and included 11 million email addresses and plain text passwords. On further investigation, the file was also found to contain data indicating it had been sourced from Armor Games ....
CafeMom
In 2014, the social network for mothers CafeMom suffered a data breach. The data surfaced alongside a number of other historical breaches including Kickstarter, Bitly and Disqus and contained 2.6 million email addresses and plain text passwords.
Kickstarter
In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach . The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.
Bitly
In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach . The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.
Team SoloMid
In December 2014, the electronic sports organisation known as Team SoloMid was hacked and 442k members accounts were leaked. The accounts included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted hashes of passwords.
Malwarebytes
In November 2014, the Malwarebytes forum was hacked and 111k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Sumo Torrent
In June 2014, the torrent site Sumo Torrent was hacked and 285k member records were exposed. The data included IP addresses, email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes.
Yandex Dump
In September 2014, news broke of a massive leak of accounts from Yandex , the Russian search engine giants who also provides email services. The purported million "breached" accounts were disclosed at the same time as nearly 5M mail.ru accounts with both...
mail.ru Dump
In September 2014, several large dumps of user accounts appeared on the Russian Bitcoin Security Forum including one with nearly 5M email addresses and passwords, predominantly on the mail.ru domain. Whilst unlikely to be the result of a direct attack against...
