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Kickstarter

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
5.2M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
2
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2014
Kickstarter

Breach History

Kickstarter
Feb 2014Critical
5.2M
Records exposed
2
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.

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