ZAP-Hosting 2021 Data Breach
Platform · Game server hosting and infrastructure · Hosting services provider · Global
ZAP-Hosting German Game Server Provider Breach (2021): 747K User Accounts Including Contact Details Exposed
Game server and cloud hosting provider.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
19/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Lower: limited current risk based on data value and recency.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
747KRecords
2021Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Crucial data exposed
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
In November 2021, web host ZAP-Hosting suffered a data breach exposing about 60GB of data containing 746,682 unique email addresses. The exposed data also included IP addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, browser user-agent details, purchases, and chat logs. The breach was disclosed publicly in March 2022.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
9 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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747K records analyzed
About ZAP-Hosting
ZAP-Hosting is a German provider of game, web, and dedicated server hosting.
Why They Hold Your Data
Hosting providers collect user accounts, billing records, service configurations, IP-related metadata, and server-management details tied to hosted game and infrastructure services.
Data Points Exposed
8 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
IP Address
Messages And Chat
Phone Number
Physical address High
Transaction History
User Agent
Breach Impact
The combination of contact, address, purchase, and support-chat data supports detailed customer profiling, targeted phishing, and social-engineering of hosting accounts; no passwords were reported in the set.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.
What You Should Do
- Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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