2024 VK — 390M user profiles leaked
Data compromised
Names, gender, profile URLs, location, some emails
Technical writeup
Hacker 'HikkI-Chan' leaked personal data of ~390 million VK users on Breach Forums. Dataset included full names, gender, profile picture URLs, country, city, and some email addresses. No passwords or phone numbers. Described as second-order breach from compromised third party; VK claimed data was scraped from public profiles.
Root cause
Second-order breach; data from compromised third party or web scraping