Personal Data Leak Monitor

FaceUP data breach

87.6K accounts from FaceUP (faceup.dk) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
January 1, 2013
Accounts
87,633
Added to the database
January 13, 2019

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersNamesPasswordsPhone numbersUsernames

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  3. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  4. Expect scam emails that use your real name
  5. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls

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About this breach

In 2013, the Danish social media site FaceUP suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 87k unique email addresses alongside genders, dates of birth, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. When notified of the incident, FaceUP advised they had identified a SQL injection vulnerability at the time and forced password resets on impacted customers.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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