Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries high risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Financial fraud using exposed financial profile data
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In March 2016, the DDoS protection service Staminus was "massively hacked" resulting in an outage of more than 20 hours and the disclosure of customer credentials (with unsalted MD5 hashes), support tickets, credit card numbers and other sensitive data. 27k unique email addresses were found in the data which was subsequently released to the public. Staminus is no longer in operation.
About Staminus
Staminus is an organization whose data was exposed in this breach. The dataset has been verified by ObscureIQ intelligence and indexed across breach notification platforms.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 27K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
Recommended Actions
⚠️ Do not assume this is low sensitivity.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In March 2016, Staminus experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 27K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as credit card, customer service records:support ticket, email address, ip address, password.
Approximately 27K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A high-profile executive
- A customer of Staminus
- Or concerned about credential reuse
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