8
8
Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
18.0M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
2
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2017
8tracks

Breach History

8tracks
Jun 2017Critical
18M
Records exposed
2
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In June 2017, the online playlists service known as 8Tracks suffered a data breach which impacted 18 million accounts. In their disclosure, 8Tracks advised that "the vector for the attack was an employee’s GitHub account, which was not secured using two-factor authentication". Salted SHA-1 password hashes for users who didn't sign up with either Google or Facebook authentication were also included. The data was provided to HIBP by whitehat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies and contained almost 8 million unique email addresses. The complete set of 18M records was later provided by JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com and updated in HIBP accordingly.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesPasswords
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk