Y
Y
Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
18.2M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
5
0 high risk
Latest Breach
2019
YouNow

Breach History

YouNow
Feb 2019Medium
18.2M
Records exposed
5
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In February 2019, data from the live broadcasting service YouNow appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace. Whilst it's not clear what date the actual breach occurred on, the impacted data included 18M unique email addresses, IP addresses, names, usernames and links to social media profiles. As authentication is performed via social providers, no passwords were exposed in the breach. Many records didn't have associated email addresses thus the unique number is lower than the reported total number of accounts.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesIP addressesNamesSocial media profilesUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
NamesLow risk
Social media profilesLow risk
UsernamesLow risk