Mashable

What Happened

In approximately mid-2020, Mashable suffered a data breach that subsequently turned up publicly in November 2020. The data included 1.4 million unique email addresses along with names, genders, expired auth tokens, physical locations, links to social media profiles and days and months of birth. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Compromised Data

Auth tokens
Email addresses
Genders
Geographic locations
IP addresses
Names
Partial dates of birth
Social media profiles

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    1.4 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    June 2020

  • Added to HIBP:

    10 Nov 2020

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