Recent cyber attacks and data breaches

In January 2026, data allegedly scraped via an Instagram API was posted to a popular hacking forum . The dataset contained 17M rows of public Instagram information, including usernames, display names, account IDs, and in some cases, geolocation data. Of these records, 6.2M included an associated email address, and some also contained a phone number. The scraped data appears to be unrelated to password reset requests initiated on the platform , despite coinciding in timeframe. There is no evidence that passwords or other sensitive data were compromised.

In October 2025, a reincarnation of the hacking forum BreachForums, which had previously been shut down multiple times, was taken offline by a coalition of law enforcement agencies . In the months leading up to the takedown, the site itself suffered a data breach that exposed a total of 672k unique email addresses across all tables, including within forum posts and private messages. The users table alone contained 324k unique email addresses, usernames, and Argon2 password hashes.

In December 2025, the dating website "for a Europid vision" WhiteDate suffered a data breach that was subsequently leaked online , initially exposing 6.1k unique email addresses. The leaked data included extensive personal information such as physical appearance, income, education and IQ. A more comprehensive dataset was later provided to HIBP, containing usernames, IP addresses, private messages, phpBB password hashes and a total of 20k unique email addresses.

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.