FaceUP

What Happened

In 2013, the Danish social media site FaceUP suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 87k unique email addresses alongside genders, dates of birth, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. When notified of the incident, FaceUP advised they had identified a SQL injection vulnerability at the time and forced password resets on impacted customers.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Email addresses
Genders
Names
Passwords
Phone numbers
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    87.6 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    January 2013

  • Added to HIBP:

    13 Jan 2019

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven't changed your FaceUP password since 2013, do so immediately.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

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