In mid-2022, "the ultimate hub of memes" MemeChat suffered a data breach that exposed 7.4M records. Alleged to be due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch instance, the data contained 4.3M unique email addresses alongside usernames.
Sample:{"_index":"users","_type":"_doc","_id":"13314","_score":1,"_source":{"uname":"vaibhavrast23","email":"vaibhavrast17@gmail.com","id":13314}}
{"_index":"users","_type":"_doc","_id":"13177","_score":1,"_source":{"uname":"shivbh","email":"shivambhuvir@gmail.com","id":13177}}
{"_index":"users","_type":"_doc","_id":"12979","_score":1,"_source":{"uname":"imprince","email":"msprince1435@gmail.com","id":12979}}
{"_index":"users","_type":"_doc","_id":"13521","_score":1,"_source":{"uname":"menden","email":"menox3den@gmail.com","id":13521}}
{"_index":"users","_type":"_doc","_id":"12868","_score":1,"_source":{"uname":"cheeta","email":"rishabhsharma.28796@gmail.com","id":12868}}
{"_index":"users","_type":"_doc","_id":"13182","_score":1,"_source":{"uname":"criminal1233","email":"mskhuttan6@gmail.com","id":13182}}
{"_index":"users","_type":"_doc","_id":"13523","_score":1,"_source":{"uname":"reverseflash","email":"harshvivek802@gmail.com","id":13523}}
{"_index":"users","_type":"_doc","_id":"13524","_score":1,"_source":{"uname":"lulla","email":"amitmagade.am@gmail.com","id":13524}}
{"_index":"users","_type":"_doc","_id":"13320","_score":1,"_source":{"uname":"hsjsisjdbdshsifiejicisifvdiskxnch","email":"viveksagars11@gmail.com","id":13320}}
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