Special K Data Feed Spam List

What Happened

In mid to late 2015, a spam list known as the Special K Data Feed was discovered containing almost 31M identities. The data includes personal attributes such as names, physical and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and phone numbers. Read more about spam lists in HIBP.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Email addresses
Genders
IP addresses
Names
Physical addresses

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    30.7 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    October 2015

  • Added to HIBP:

    24 Nov 2016

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If you haven't changed your Special K Data Feed Spam List password since 2015, do so immediately.

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