Personal Data Leak Monitor

Kickstarter data breach

5.18M accounts from Kickstarter (kickstarter.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
February 16, 2014
Accounts
5,176,463
Added to the database
October 6, 2017

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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 February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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