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Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
8.6M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
3
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2013
WeHeartIt

Breach History

WeHeartIt
Nov 2013Critical
8.6M
Records exposed
3
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In November 2013, the image-based social network We Heart It suffered a data breach. The incident wasn't discovered until October 2017 when 8.6 million user records were sent to HIBP. The data contained user names, email addresses and password hashes, 80% of which were salted SHA-256 with the remainder being MD5 with no salt.

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