Personal Data Leak Monitor

Gawker data breach

1.25M accounts from Gawker (gawker.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
December 11, 2010
Accounts
1,247,574
Added to the database
December 4, 2013

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What leaked

Email addressesPasswordsUsernames

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
  3. Verify you have not reused that login anywhere

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About this breach

In December 2010, Gawker was attacked by the hacker collective "Gnosis" in retaliation for what was reported to be a feud between Gawker and 4Chan. Information about Gawkers 1.3M users was published along with the data from Gawker's other web presences including Gizmodo and Lifehacker. Due to the prevalence of password reuse, many victims of the breach then had their Twitter accounts compromised to send Acai berry spam.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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