MemeChat

What Happened

In mid-2022, "the ultimate hub of memes" MemeChat suffered a data breach that exposed 7.4M records. Alleged to be due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch instance, the data contained 4.3M unique email addresses alongside usernames.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    4.3 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    June 2022

  • Added to HIBP:

    29 Oct 2023

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Change Your Password

If you haven't changed your MemeChat password since 2022, do so immediately.

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