Netlog

What Happened

In July 2018, the Belgian social networking site Netlog identified a data breach of their systems dating back to November 2012 (PDF). Although the service was discontinued in 2015, the data breach still impacted 49 million subscribers for whom email addresses and plain text passwords were exposed.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Passwords

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    49 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    November 2012

  • Added to HIBP:

    15 Jul 2019

  • Attribution:

    JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com

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