India's number one online guide for traffic has suffered a data breach.

A total of 22 breach events were found and analysed resulting in 1,777,418 exposed accounts containing a total of 16 different data types of personal datum . The breaches found publicly and freely available included Track Mill, Neo Seeker, Full Hyderabad, Anime Base (URL Redirected) and WoW Head. Sign in to view the full library of breach events which includes, where available, reference articles relating to each breach.

Data Breach Analysis

Track Mill: A long-standing game creation and sharing platform. Account exposures here could lead to phishing campaigns targeting hobbyist developers and younger users, especially where usernames, email addresses, and account credentials are reused across platforms.

Neo Seeker: A respected destination for gaming and tech discussion. With its combination of forum-based interactions and user-generated reviews, a breach can compromise reputation-based user accounts, enabling impersonation or spamming within gaming communities.

Full Hyderabad: A regional portal known for classifieds, events, and local discussion. Breaches here pose risks to location-specific targeting, potentially affecting users within India by enabling scams or misinformation campaigns anchored to verified-looking identities.

Anime Base (via URL Redirected): Although indirectly traced, the breach appears to affect a site catering to anime enthusiasts. These types of breaches can be particularly damaging in tight-knit fandoms, where pseudonym-based online identities are often reused across multiple forums and platforms, increasing the likelihood of impersonation and harassment.

WoW Head: A premier World of Warcraft resource. With millions of monthly users, any leak from WoW Head could enable targeted spear phishing against players, especially those engaged in guilds or premium account purchases. There’s also risk to users who may have integrated their WoW Head accounts with broader Blizzard or social media ecosystems.

These breaches highlight the growing vulnerability of community-centric platforms, which often house user bases that deeply invest in their digital identities but operate on platforms with less robust security infrastructures. The fallout from such exposures may not immediately reach the level of financial loss, but they are capable of eroding trust, fostering harassment, and enabling opportunistic attacks across broader online ecosystems.

For both individuals and site operators, the key lesson is clear: privacy and security must be considered essential even in non-commercial, enthusiast-driven spaces. Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, and regular account hygiene remain critical, even in communities built around games, hobbies, or local events.

Spotlight

A 'Desi' theme this week, first, an information and news site that advertises itself as India's number one online guide for traffic has suffered a data breach for one of their most popular locations. The website has been running since 2007 and they have a "super professional approach". Well, that's what they say. From our understanding the site wasn’t hacked too recently, there's a file in circulation containing over five hundred thousand unique email addresses and hashed passwords.

Another Indian data breach with 100 thousand unique email addresses and various datasets with hashed passwords has been dumped online. The company in question describes itself as a "complaint redressal mobile and web platform." Apparently, it is a "quantum leap in how complaints and grievances are processed." In our words, it's an app for complaining about cleanliness in cities across India.

An interesting update to the Uber and Rockstar data breach. A 17-year old from Oxfordshire has been arrested, A full dox of the hacker was posted on a popular hacking forum. However, we won’t pass comment on that because the age of the hacker and our dislike of doxing.

It's interesting to see the news that Iran has turned off sections of the internet and blocked access to social media platforms. It not surprising but does worry us how much the government has control of such a 'utility' for modern day life.