Personal Data Leak Monitor

MediaWorks data breach

163K accounts from MediaWorks (mediaworks.co.nz) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included dates of birth, genders and phone numbers.

Breach date
March 15, 2023
Accounts
162,710
Added to the database
March 22, 2024

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersPhone numbersPhysical addresses

What to do now

  1. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  2. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  3. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls
  4. Be careful with unexpected mail or visitors

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About this breach

In March 2024, millions of rows of data from the New Zealand media company MediaWorks was publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The incident exposed 163k unique email addresses provided by visitors who filled out online competitions and included names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and the responses to questions in the competition. Some victims of the breach subsequently received ransom demands requesting payment to have their data deleted.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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