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Hemmakvall

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
47K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
5
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2015
Hemmakvall

Breach History

Hemmakvall
Jul 2015Critical
47.3K
Records exposed
5
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In July 2015, the Swedish video store chain Hemmakväll was hacked and nearly 50k records dumped publicly. The disclosed data included various attributes of their customers including email and physical addresses, names and phone numbers. Passwords were also leaked, stored with a weak MD5 hashing algorithm.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addresses
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
NamesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Phone numbersMedium risk
Physical addressesMedium risk