Personal Data Leak Monitor

StarTribune data breach

2.19M accounts from StarTribune (startribune.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
October 10, 2019
Accounts
2,192,857
Added to the database
October 30, 2020

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersNamesPasswordsPhysical addressesUsernames

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  3. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  4. Expect scam emails that use your real name
  5. Be careful with unexpected mail or visitors

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About this breach

In October 2019, the Minnesota-based news service StarTribune suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold on the dark web. The breach exposed over 2 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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