Personal Data Leak Monitor

Baby Names data breach

847K accounts from Baby Names (babynames.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
October 24, 2008
Accounts
846,742
Added to the database
October 24, 2018

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What leaked

Email addressesPasswords

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
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About this breach

In approximately 2008, the site to help parents name their children known as Baby Names suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 846k email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. When contacted in October 2018, Baby Names advised that "the breach happened at least ten years ago" and that members were notified at the time.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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