Wishbone (2016)

What Happened

In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults.

Compromised Data

Auth tokens
Dates of birth
Email addresses
Genders
Names
Phone numbers
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    2.2 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    August 2016

  • Added to HIBP:

    15 Mar 2017

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