Personal Data Leak Monitor

Snapchat data breach

4.61M accounts from Snapchat (snapchat.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included geographic locations, phone numbers and usernames.

Breach date
January 1, 2014
Accounts
4,609,615
Added to the database
January 2, 2014

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What leaked

Geographic locationsPhone numbersUsernames

What to do now

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About this breach

In January 2014 just one week after Gibson Security detailed vulnerabilities in the service, Snapchat had 4.6 million usernames and phone number exposed. The attack involved brute force enumeration of a large number of phone numbers against the Snapchat API in what appears to be a response to Snapchat's assertion that such an attack was "theoretical". Consequently, the breach enabled individual usernames (which are often used across other services) to be resolved to phone numbers which users usually wish to keep private.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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