YouNow

What Happened

In February 2019, data from the live broadcasting service YouNow appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace. Whilst it's not clear what date the actual breach occurred on, the impacted data included 18M unique email addresses, IP addresses, names, usernames and links to social media profiles. As authentication is performed via social providers, no passwords were exposed in the breach. Many records didn't have associated email addresses thus the unique number is lower than the reported total number of accounts. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".

Compromised Data

Email addresses
IP addresses
Names
Social media profiles
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    18.2 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    February 2019

  • Added to HIBP:

    18 Jul 2019

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven't changed your YouNow password since 2019, do so immediately.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

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Check Other Accounts

If you used the same password elsewhere, change those too.

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