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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

  • 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.

    BleepingComputer
  • Canva

    Someone got into Canny, a feedback tool connected to Canva's Salesforce, and reached enterprise customers' business contact details.

    Capital Brief
  • 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.

    TechCrunch
  • HungerRush

    A vendor's stolen credentials opened HungerRush's email marketing account, which mailed extortion emails to restaurant patrons.

    BleepingComputer
  • SUCCESS magazine

    A breach exposed 250,000 email addresses, and its system was used to send newsletters falsely attributed to contributors.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • Aura

    900,000 email addresses leaked, mostly from a marketing tool belonging to a company Aura had acquired.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • Substack

    An outside party got users' email addresses and phone numbers in October 2025. Substack found it on February 3.

    TechCrunch
  • 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

  • WIRED

    2.3 million WIRED user records, mostly email addresses and display names, were published online.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • OpenAI via Mixpanel

    An attacker exported names and emails of OpenAI API users from its analytics vendor.

    The Register
  • Discord via 5CA

    Attackers broke into a support contractor and reached users' emails, contact details and about 70,000 ID photos.

    Discord
  • 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.

    CSO
  • Cloudflare

    Through the Salesloft Drift Salesforce integration, an attacker took support case text and customer contact data, including requester email addresses and phone numbers.

    Cloudflare
  • 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.

    Cybersecurity Dive
  • 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.

    BleepingComputer
  • Stellantis

    Stellantis said a third-party platform for its North American customer service was breached, exposing customer data limited to names and email addresses.

    The Register
  • Salesloft Drift

    Stolen OAuth tokens were used to export many companies' Salesforce data and to read mail in some Google Workspace accounts.

    Google
  • Workday

    Social engineering opened a third-party CRM, and business contact names, emails and phone numbers were taken.

    BleepingComputer
  • Google

    Voice phishing led to data stolen from a corporate Salesforce instance holding business contacts.

    BleepingComputer
  • 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.

    TechCrunch
  • 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.

    BleepingComputer
  • Pandora

    Pandora told customers their contact information was accessed through a third-party platform; BleepingComputer reported the source was its Salesforce database.

    BleepingComputer
  • Air France-KLM

    Attackers reached an external customer service platform and took customer names, email addresses, phone numbers and loyalty program details.

    BleepingComputer
  • 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.

    Zscaler
  • Allianz Life

    Customer data stored in Salesforce was taken through social engineering; 1.1 million emails.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • Qantas

    A contact centre's third-party platform was breached and 5.7 million customer records taken, about 4 million with emails.

    SecurityWeek
  • 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.

    BleepingComputer
  • Coinbase

    Bribed support contractors took customers' names, emails, addresses and ID images.

    BleepingComputer
  • Adidas

    Adidas said contact information of customers who had contacted its help desk was taken from a third-party customer service provider.

    The Register
  • PoisonSeed

    Copied login pages took over Mailchimp, SendGrid, HubSpot, Mailgun and Zoho accounts to export lists and mail wallet scams.

    BleepingComputer
  • 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

  • Internet Archive via Zendesk

    A support API token, exposed in a config file since 2022, was used to email people with old support tickets.

    BleepingComputer
  • Finsure via ActivePipe

    Almost 300,000 email addresses were taken from a real estate marketing platform.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • Burger King Russia via Mindbox

    An attack on a marketing automation platform exposed 3.2 million customer email addresses.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • Trello

    Atlassian confirmed that 15 million Trello users' email addresses were collected through an unauthenticated REST API lookup, which it closed in January 2024.

    BleepingComputer
  • HubSpot

    Attackers got into fewer than 50 customer accounts.

    TechCrunch
  • CoinGecko via GetResponse

    A hijacked GetResponse employee account was used to export 1,916,596 CoinGecko contacts and phish 23,723 addresses.

    CoinGecko
  • Ticketmaster via Snowflake

    Customer names and contact details were taken from a third-party data warehouse.

    BleepingComputer
  • 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.

    BleepingComputer
  • Decrypt via MailerLite

    Its newsletter key was taken and a fake airdrop mailed to subscribers.

    Decrypt
  • SendGrid customers

    At least nine companies' SendGrid accounts sent phishing imitating SendGrid itself, passing SPF and DKIM.

    Netcraft
  • DemandScience

    122 million business contact records leaked from a decommissioned system of the B2B data company.

    BleepingComputer
  • MailerLite

    A phished support manager gave attackers the admin panel. 70 accounts were reached and 4 sent wallet-drainer phishing.

    MailerLite
  • 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

  • Okta

    Okta said intruders in its customer support system took the names and email addresses of all its support system users.

    Krebs on Security
  • Duolingo

    Data on 2.6M users, including non-public email addresses, was scraped through an exposed API and released on a hacking forum.

    BleepingComputer
  • Namecheap

    DHL and MetaMask phishing went to customers through its email sender.

    The Register
  • Mailchimp

    Phished staff credentials opened an internal admin tool, and data in 133 accounts was accessed, WooCommerce's among them.

    TechCrunch
  • 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

  • Mailchimp

    Social engineering of staff reached 214 accounts and exposed DigitalOcean customers' emails.

    BleepingComputer
  • Klaviyo

    A phished employee login was used to download marketing lists from 38 accounts.

    Klaviyo
  • 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.

    BleepingComputer
  • 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.

    BleepingComputer
  • Vultr via ActiveCampaign

    An incident at its email marketing provider exposed 188,000 unique email addresses.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • OpenSea via Customer.io

    An employee of the email vendor downloaded users' and subscribers' emails and shared them.

    The Register
  • Mailchimp

    319 accounts were accessed, audience data exported from 102, and Trezor subscribers phished.

    The Record
  • HubSpot

    A social-engineered employee login was used to export contacts from crypto customers such as BlockFi, Swan and Circle.

    HubSpot

2021 4

  • Kaspersky via Amazon SES

    A contractor's stolen SES token sent Office 365 phishing from a kaspersky.com address.

    Threatpost
  • 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.

    The Register
  • Chipotle via Mailgun

    Its marketing account sent 121 phishing and malware emails over four days.

    The Register
  • 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

  • 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.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • SendGrid

    Customer accounts with reused passwords were taken over to send phishing, and over 400 were offered for sale.

    Krebs on Security
  • Ledger

    An API key opened its marketing database and exposed about 1 million emails.

    Ledger
  • Ghost(Pro)

    Unpatched SaltStack flaws let attackers into Ghost's server infrastructure and took the hosted service down.

    CSO
  • Slickwraps

    A breach exposed 858,000 unique email addresses from customer records and newsletter subscribers.

    Have I Been Pwned

2019 4

  • 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.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • LimeLeads

    The B2B leads service exposed 17.8 million unique email addresses through an unsecured database.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • Intelimost

    An exposed spam server held more than three million email addresses and passwords used to send spam from hijacked mailboxes.

    TechCrunch
  • Verifications.io

    An email validation service left a database open, exposing 763 million email addresses.

    Have I Been Pwned

2018 5

  • Data & Leads

    An unprotected database linked to marketing company Data & Leads exposed over 44 million unique email addresses with names and employment data.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud

    An API bug let some calls read or write data across customer accounts.

    The Register
  • 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.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • Exactis

    A marketing data firm left a database open with about 340 million records of emails, addresses and phone numbers.

    Engadget
  • 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

  • Mailchimp customers

    Hijacked accounts, Red Bull Records' among them, mailed malware to their own lists for months.

    The Register
  • Onliner Spambot

    A spam server exposed 711 million records, with the email logins used to send spam.

    Troy Hunt
  • River City Media

    A backup with no password exposed 1.37 billion rows, about 393 million unique addresses.

    The Register
  • Dun & Bradstreet

    33.7 million business contacts from its NetProspex list leaked.

    Troy Hunt

2016 1

  • Mailchimp customers

    Accounts were taken over to mail malware invoices to their own subscribers.

    WeLiveSecurity

2015 3

  • Special K spam list

    A spam list with 30.7 million identities was found.

    Have I Been Pwned
  • SendGrid

    An employee account reached customer credentials and servers holding recipient lists.

    Krebs on Security
  • 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

  • Zendesk

    Emails of people who wrote to Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr support were taken.

    TechCrunch

2012 1

  • Dropbox

    A reused password opened an employee account holding a list of user emails, which led to spam.

    Krebs on Security

2011 1

  • Epsilon

    Customer names and emails for Citibank, Chase, Capital One, Marriott and others were taken from the email marketer.

    The Register

2010 5

  • Silverpop

    Spear-phishing hit staff at over 100 email providers, and some Silverpop customer accounts were reached.

    The Register
  • deviantART via Silverpop

    Its email database, reported as 13 million addresses, was taken from its email provider.

    Krebs on Security
  • Walgreens

    Its newsletter list was taken and used for phishing.

    SecurityWeek
  • McDonald's

    Customer emails and other promotion sign-up data leaked from a hacked email database firm working for McDonald's agency Arc Worldwide.

    Krebs on Security
  • 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

  • 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

  • TD Ameritrade

    Contact details for more than 6.3 million accounts were taken, emails included.

    The Register