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Jan 31, 2026

What to Do After a Data Breach: A Step-by-Step Guide

Discovering your data has been breached can be alarming. Here's a practical guide to securing your accounts and minimizing damage.

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Jan 30, 2026

Understanding Password Hashing: Why It Matters for Your Security

Not all password storage is created equal. Learn the difference between plaintext, MD5, SHA1, bcrypt, and modern hashing algorithms.

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Nov 13, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of FriendFinder Networks Hack

Sexual secrets for hundreds of millions exposed in largest hack of 2016 November 13th, 2016 Quick links What happened? Who are we? Deleted Users Passwords Emails Languages Site Growth and Usage...

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Oct 20, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of Weebly.com Hack

Tens of millions of websites at risk in latest mega breach October 20th, 2016 Additionally we were just given the Adult Friend Finder data so once we verify it, we'll add that as well.

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Oct 11, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of Evony.com Hack

October 11th, 2016 33 Million gamer accounts stolen Surprisingly they also stored the passwords in unsalted SHA1 next to the MD5 which makes no sense but anyway, here is the top list of most...

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Sep 6, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of Rambler.ru Hack

September 6th, 2016 Specifically we sent three of her friends the first portion of the passwords found attached to their accounts in this breach, and they were able to accurately fill in the rest...

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Sep 1, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of Last.fm Hack

September 1st, 2016 Table of Contents About Us Summary Passwords Emails Site Growth About us LeakedSource has exposed every single mega breach of 2016 including LinkedIn, MySpace, and VK.com but...

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Aug 24, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of Sites Hosted by Mail.ru

August 24th, 2016 Specifically they are: cfire.mail.ru - 12,881,787 users, 6,226,196 passwords cracked at the time of this post. parapa.mail.ru (main game) - 5,029,530 users, 3,329,532 passwords...

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Aug 16, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of SocialBlade Hack

August 16th, 2016 Leafyishere sub botting controversy Summary Socialblade.com was hacked in August of 2016. Their main website contains 273,086 users while their forums contains only 13,009. Each...

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Jul 13, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of Shadi.com Hack

July 13th, 2016Preface Shortly after the hack of MuslimMatch.com, Shadi.com another dating site was hacked around July 10th, 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its...

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Jul 8, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of WebHostingTalk Network Hack

July 8th, 2016Preface WebHostingTalk.com, Mac-Forums.com, DbForums.com and ABestWeb.com all owned by Penton were hacked on July 4th, 2016. Hotscripts.com and all the other websites they own were also...

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Jun 14, 2016

LeakedSource Analysis of VerticalScope Network Hack

June 14th, 2016Preface Verticalscope.com and all of their domains were hacked in February of 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of...

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