LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource.com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords a...

LeakedSource Founder Arrested for Selling 3 Billion Stolen Credentials

Canadian authorities have arrested and charged an Ontario man for operating a website that collected 'stolen' personal identity records and credentials from some three billion online accounts and sold them for profit. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP, the 27-year-old Jordan Eva...

Hello Kitty Database of 3.3 Million Users Surfaces

A cache of data including 3.3 million user credentials belonging to Hello Kitty parent company Sanrio surfaced over the weekend. The breach was originally reported in December 2015, but at the time Sanrio denied any data was stolen as part of the breach. The breach was tied to a misconfigured...

DailyMotion Hacked — 85 Million User Accounts Stolen

Another day, another data breach. This time a popular video sharing platform DailyMotion has allegedly been hacked and tens of millions of users information have been stolen. Breach notification service LeakedSource announced the data breach on Monday after the company obtained 85.2 Million recor...

51 Million iMesh Accounts Available on Black Market

LeakedSource, an aggregator of data stolen in breaches, is advertising the availability of the account information of 51 million users of the now defunct iMesh peer-to-peer file-sharing music service. According to LeakedSource, the data is from a 2013 breach and includes email addresses, username...

Over 51 Million Accounts Leaked from iMesh File Sharing Service

How many more data dumps does this hacker have with him that has yet to be exposed? Well, no one knows the answer, but we were recently made aware of another data breach from Peace – the same Russian hacker who was behind the massive breaches in some of the most popular social media sites includi...

Twitter Forces Password Reset on Some Exposed Accounts

Twitter has forced a password reset on an unnamed number of accounts exposed this week in a dump of 32.8 million account names and credentials. A Russian hacker known as Tessa88 has been involved in a number of recent password disclosures with Twitter being the most recent. He shared the cache of...

Stolen Twitter Credentials Latest Dataset For Sale

Tens of millions of Twitter account records including cleartext passwords are up for sale on a black market site, the latest cache of bundled credentials for major online services to be made available. The Twitter records have been analyzed by LeakedSource, which said in a post yesterday that a...

VK.com HACKED! 100 Million Clear Text Passwords Leaked Online

Another day, another Data Breach! Now, Russia's biggest social networking site VK.com is the latest in the line of historical data breaches targeting social networking websites. The same hacker who previously sold data dumps from MySpace, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Fling.com, is now selling more than...

LinkedIn Slams Breach Data Reseller With Cease and Desist Order

LinkedIn is striking back against a website attempting to monetize the 117 million usernames and passwords stolen from the company as part of a 2012 data breach. Website LeakedSource is reporting lawyers representing LinkedIn have served the company a cease and desist order on Wednesday alleging...