Personal Data Leak Monitor

GoldSilver data breach

243K accounts from GoldSilver (goldsilver.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included bank account numbers, partial credit card data, passport numbers and social security numbers, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
October 21, 2018
Accounts
242,715
Added to the database
December 27, 2018

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What leaked

Bank account numbersEmail addressesIP addressesNamesPartial credit card dataPassport numbersPhone numbersPhysical addressesPurchasesSecurity questions and answersSocial security numbers

What to do now

  1. Inspect your bank statements for unknown withdrawals
  2. Call your card company and inspect for charges you don't recognise
  3. Watch for accounts or mail opened in your name; contact the issuer
  4. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  5. Expect scam emails that use your real name

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About this breach

In October 2018, the bullion education and dealer services site GoldSilver suffered a data breach that exposed 243k unique email addresses spanning customers and mailing list subscribers. An extensive amount of personal information on customers was obtained including names, addresses, phone numbers, purchases and passwords and answers to security questions stored as MD5 hashes. In a small number of cases, passport, social security numbers and partial credit card data was also exposed. The data breach and source code belonging to GoldSilver was publicly posted on a dark web service where it remained months later. When notified about the incident, GoldSilver advised that "all affected customers have been directly notified".

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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