Recent cyber attacks and data breaches

In December 2025, 2.3M records of WIRED magazine users allegedly obtained from parent company Condé Nast were published online . The most recent data dated back to the previous September and exposed email addresses and display names, as well as, for a small number of users, their name, phone number, date of birth, gender, and geographic location or full physical address. The WIRED data allegedly represents a subset of Condé Nast brands the hacker also claims to have obtained.

In August 2020, news broke of a data breach of Russian airline Utair that dated back to the previous year . The breach contained over 400k unique email addresses along with extensive personal information including names, physical addresses, dates of birth, passport numbers and loyalty program details.

In April 2022, Russian pharmaceutical company Gemotest suffered a data breach that exposed 31 million patients . The data contained 6.3 million unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, dates of birth, passport and insurance numbers. Gemotest was later fined for the breach.

In March 2025, the French vehicle inspection company AUTOSUR suffered a data breach exposing over 10M customer records, though only 487k unique email addresses were present. The compromised data included names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and vehicle details such as make and model, VIN, and registration plate. AUTOSUR later issued a disclosure notice with further details.

In August 2012, the forum for making money with botting "The Botting Network" suffered a data breach that exposed 96k user records . The now defunct vBulletin forum leaked 96k email addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.

In July 2016, the Web Hosting Talk forum suffered a data breach that was subsequently listed for sale . The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed 515k user records including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

In March 2021, the Russian online streaming service KinoKong suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data . The breach exposed over 800k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, IP addresses and MD5 password hashes.

In November 2025, data breached from the Zilvia.net Nissan 240SX Silvia and Z Fairlady car forum was leaked. The breach exposed 288k unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes sourced from the vBulletin based platform. Attempts to contact Zilvia.net about the incident were unsuccessful.

In 2011, the China Software Developer Network (CSDN) suffered a data breach that exposed over 6M user records . The data included email addresses alongside usernames and plain text passwords.

In November 2025, the online coding practice tool CodeStepByStep suffered a data breach that exposed 17k records which were subsequently published online . The following month, a further corpus of data was released bringing the total to 103k. The impacted data included names, usernames and email addresses.