Where mailing lists leaked
93 times a list of people's email addresses, or the account that mails them, ended up with someone else.
Breaches that came in through a third party doubled to 30% in Verizon's 2025 report, and stood at 48% in 2026. Verizon DBIR 2025 · Verizon DBIR 2026
2026 8
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Brevo
A flaw in Brevo's single sign-on let an attacker into 138 customer accounts. Contacts were exported from 43, including 347,149 Trezor newsletter addresses, and 6 sent phishing.
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Canva
Someone got into Canny, a feedback tool connected to Canva's Salesforce, and reached enterprise customers' business contact details.
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Klaviyo
A misconfigured sign-up form passed new customers' emails, passwords and phone numbers to third-party ad pixels, likely from February 2024 to November 2025.
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HungerRush
A vendor's stolen credentials opened HungerRush's email marketing account, which mailed extortion emails to restaurant patrons.
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SUCCESS magazine
A breach exposed 250,000 email addresses, and its system was used to send newsletters falsely attributed to contributors.
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Aura
900,000 email addresses leaked, mostly from a marketing tool belonging to a company Aura had acquired.
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Substack
An outside party got users' email addresses and phone numbers in October 2025. Substack found it on February 3.
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Betterment
Social engineering opened a third-party marketing platform. Customer contact data was taken and a crypto scam mailed from a Betterment address; 1.4 million emails.
BleepingComputer
2025 23
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WIRED
2.3 million WIRED user records, mostly email addresses and display names, were published online.
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OpenAI via Mixpanel
An attacker exported names and emails of OpenAI API users from its analytics vendor.
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Discord via 5CA
Attackers broke into a support contractor and reached users' emails, contact details and about 70,000 ID photos.
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postmark-mcp
A fake npm copy of Postmark's MCP email connector for AI assistants quietly Bcc'd every email it sent to the attacker.
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Cloudflare
Through the Salesloft Drift Salesforce integration, an attacker took support case text and customer contact data, including requester email addresses and phone numbers.
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Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks said the Drift-linked breach was limited to its Salesforce CRM and mostly exposed business contact information plus sales account and case data.
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Workiva
Workiva said attackers used a connected third-party application to reach its CRM and took business contacts' names, email addresses, phone numbers and support ticket content.
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Stellantis
Stellantis said a third-party platform for its North American customer service was breached, exposing customer data limited to names and email addresses.
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Salesloft Drift
Stolen OAuth tokens were used to export many companies' Salesforce data and to read mail in some Google Workspace accounts.
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Workday
Social engineering opened a third-party CRM, and business contact names, emails and phone numbers were taken.
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Google
Voice phishing led to data stolen from a corporate Salesforce instance holding business contacts.
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Cisco
A voice-phishing attack gave an attacker access to a third-party CRM, from which names, email addresses, phone numbers and addresses of Cisco.com users were exported.
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Chanel
Chanel said a database at a third-party provider was accessed, exposing names, email addresses, mailing addresses and phone numbers of US client care contacts.
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Pandora
Pandora told customers their contact information was accessed through a third-party platform; BleepingComputer reported the source was its Salesforce database.
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Air France-KLM
Attackers reached an external customer service platform and took customer names, email addresses, phone numbers and loyalty program details.
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Zscaler
Stolen Drift OAuth tokens gave access to Zscaler's Salesforce, exposing customer names, business email addresses, job titles, phone numbers and support case header fields.
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Allianz Life
Customer data stored in Salesforce was taken through social engineering; 1.1 million emails.
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Qantas
A contact centre's third-party platform was breached and 5.7 million customer records taken, about 4 million with emails.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot
A crafted email could make Copilot send internal data to an attacker with no click. Fixed, with no known use in real attacks.
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Coinbase
Bribed support contractors took customers' names, emails, addresses and ID images.
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Adidas
Adidas said contact information of customers who had contacted its help desk was taken from a third-party customer service provider.
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PoisonSeed
Copied login pages took over Mailchimp, SendGrid, HubSpot, Mailgun and Zoho accounts to export lists and mail wallet scams.
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Troy Hunt via Mailchimp
A phishing page relayed his password and one-time code. His list of about 16,000 was exported in two minutes, 7,535 of them people who had unsubscribed.
Troy Hunt
2024 13
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Internet Archive via Zendesk
A support API token, exposed in a config file since 2022, was used to email people with old support tickets.
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Finsure via ActivePipe
Almost 300,000 email addresses were taken from a real estate marketing platform.
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Burger King Russia via Mindbox
An attack on a marketing automation platform exposed 3.2 million customer email addresses.
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Trello
Atlassian confirmed that 15 million Trello users' email addresses were collected through an unauthenticated REST API lookup, which it closed in January 2024.
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HubSpot
Attackers got into fewer than 50 customer accounts.
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CoinGecko via GetResponse
A hijacked GetResponse employee account was used to export 1,916,596 CoinGecko contacts and phish 23,723 addresses.
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Ticketmaster via Snowflake
Customer names and contact details were taken from a third-party data warehouse.
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Dropbox Sign
Attackers reached Dropbox Sign's production systems and took customer emails, usernames, phone numbers, hashed passwords and API keys, plus names and emails of non-users.
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Decrypt via MailerLite
Its newsletter key was taken and a fake airdrop mailed to subscribers.
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SendGrid customers
At least nine companies' SendGrid accounts sent phishing imitating SendGrid itself, passing SPF and DKIM.
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DemandScience
122 million business contact records leaked from a decommissioned system of the B2B data company.
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MailerLite
A phished support manager gave attackers the admin panel. 70 accounts were reached and 4 sent wallet-drainer phishing.
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Spoutible
A misconfigured API exposed email addresses, names, phone numbers, bcrypt password hashes and 2FA secrets for about 207,000 accounts.
Have I Been Pwned
2023 5
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Okta
Okta said intruders in its customer support system took the names and email addresses of all its support system users.
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Duolingo
Data on 2.6M users, including non-public email addresses, was scraped through an exposed API and released on a hacking forum.
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Namecheap
DHL and MetaMask phishing went to customers through its email sender.
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Mailchimp
Phished staff credentials opened an internal admin tool, and data in 133 accounts was accessed, WooCommerce's among them.
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T-Mobile
An attacker pulled names, email addresses, billing addresses and phone numbers for about 37 million customer accounts through an API.
BleepingComputer
2022 8
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Mailchimp
Social engineering of staff reached 214 accounts and exposed DigitalOcean customers' emails.
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Klaviyo
A phished employee login was used to download marketing lists from 38 accounts.
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Twitter
Twitter confirmed that a now-patched flaw let attackers link email addresses and phone numbers to accounts; the attacker's dataset covered about 5.4M users.
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DoorDash
Attackers used stolen credentials from a third-party vendor to reach internal tools, exposing names, email addresses, delivery addresses and phone numbers of customers and couriers.
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Vultr via ActiveCampaign
An incident at its email marketing provider exposed 188,000 unique email addresses.
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OpenSea via Customer.io
An employee of the email vendor downloaded users' and subscribers' emails and shared them.
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Mailchimp
319 accounts were accessed, audience data exported from 102, and Trezor subscribers phished.
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HubSpot
A social-engineered employee login was used to export contacts from crypto customers such as BlockFi, Swan and Circle.
HubSpot
2021 4
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Kaspersky via Amazon SES
A contractor's stolen SES token sent Office 365 phishing from a kaspersky.com address.
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Robinhood
An attacker talked a support employee into granting access to customer support systems and took a list of about five million customer email addresses.
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Chipotle via Mailgun
Its marketing account sent 121 phishing and malware emails over four days.
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USAID via Constant Contact
Attackers got into USAID's Constant Contact account and sent phishing to about 3,000 accounts at over 150 organizations.
Microsoft
2020 5
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Gravatar
A scraping method published by a researcher was used to collect names, usernames and email hashes for 167M profiles; about 114M addresses were later cracked.
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SendGrid
Customer accounts with reused passwords were taken over to send phishing, and over 400 were offered for sale.
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Ledger
An API key opened its marketing database and exposed about 1 million emails.
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Ghost(Pro)
Unpatched SaltStack flaws let attackers into Ghost's server infrastructure and took the hosted service down.
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Slickwraps
A breach exposed 858,000 unique email addresses from customer records and newsletter subscribers.
Have I Been Pwned
2019 4
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People Data Labs data
An unprotected server holding 1.2 billion records sourced from People Data Labs exposed 622 million unique email addresses; PDL did not own the server.
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LimeLeads
The B2B leads service exposed 17.8 million unique email addresses through an unsecured database.
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Intelimost
An exposed spam server held more than three million email addresses and passwords used to send spam from hijacked mailboxes.
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Verifications.io
An email validation service left a database open, exposing 763 million email addresses.
Have I Been Pwned
2018 5
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Data & Leads
An unprotected database linked to marketing company Data & Leads exposed over 44 million unique email addresses with names and employment data.
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud
An API bug let some calls read or write data across customer accounts.
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Apollo
Sales engagement startup Apollo left a database exposed without a password, and 126 million unique email addresses from it reached Have I Been Pwned.
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Exactis
A marketing data firm left a database open with about 340 million records of emails, addresses and phone numbers.
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Trik Spam Botnet
A misconfigured server for the Trik spam botnet exposed the email addresses of more than 43 million people.
Have I Been Pwned
2017 4
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Mailchimp customers
Hijacked accounts, Red Bull Records' among them, mailed malware to their own lists for months.
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Onliner Spambot
A spam server exposed 711 million records, with the email logins used to send spam.
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River City Media
A backup with no password exposed 1.37 billion rows, about 393 million unique addresses.
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Dun & Bradstreet
33.7 million business contacts from its NetProspex list leaked.
Troy Hunt
2016 1
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Mailchimp customers
Accounts were taken over to mail malware invoices to their own subscribers.
WeLiveSecurity
2015 3
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Special K spam list
A spam list with 30.7 million identities was found.
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SendGrid
An employee account reached customer credentials and servers holding recipient lists.
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Eight US email service providers
US prosecutors charged hackers who broke into at least eight email providers from 2009, took over a billion addresses and used the providers' servers to spam.
The Register
2013 1
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Zendesk
Emails of people who wrote to Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr support were taken.
TechCrunch
2012 1
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Dropbox
A reused password opened an employee account holding a list of user emails, which led to spam.
Krebs on Security
2011 1
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Epsilon
Customer names and emails for Citibank, Chase, Capital One, Marriott and others were taken from the email marketer.
The Register
2010 5
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Silverpop
Spear-phishing hit staff at over 100 email providers, and some Silverpop customer accounts were reached.
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deviantART via Silverpop
Its email database, reported as 13 million addresses, was taken from its email provider.
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Walgreens
Its newsletter list was taken and used for phishing.
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McDonald's
Customer emails and other promotion sign-up data leaked from a hacked email database firm working for McDonald's agency Arc Worldwide.
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Honda and Acura
An unnamed email vendor's breach exposed about 4.9 million Owner Link and My Acura records, including email addresses, names and VINs.
American Banker
2009 1
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Campaign Monitor
Attackers broke into Campaign Monitor servers, got into some customer accounts and sent spam from both existing and imported lists.
The Register
2007 1
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TD Ameritrade
Contact details for more than 6.3 million accounts were taken, emails included.
The Register