Personal Data Leak Monitor

Avvo data breach

4.1M accounts from Avvo (avvo.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
December 17, 2019
Accounts
4,101,101
Added to the database
April 15, 2022

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What leaked

Email addressesPasswords

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service

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About this breach

In approximately December 2019, an alleged data breach of the lawyer directory service Avvo was published to an online hacking forum and used in an extortion scam (it's possible the exposure dates back earlier than that). The data contained 4.1M unique email addresses alongside SHA-1 hashes, most likely representing user passwords. Multiple attempts at contacting Avvo over the course of a week were unsuccessful and the authenticity of the data was eventually verified with common Avvo and HIBP subscribers.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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