ShellCodeX Breach Report
Beautiful People Data Breach
beautifulpeople.com
Verified breach
Sensitive
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
1,100,089
Breach date
11 Nov 2015
Added to tracker
25 Apr 2016
Data classes
20
What happened
In November 2015, the dating website Beautiful People was hacked and over 1.1M accounts were leaked. The data was being traded in underground circles and included a huge amount of personal information related to dating.
Exposed data
Beauty ratings
Car ownership statuses
Dates of birth
Drinking habits
Education levels
Email addresses
Genders
Geographic locations
Home ownership statuses
Income levels
IP addresses
Job titles
Names
Passwords
Personal descriptions
Personal interests
Physical attributes
Sexual orientations
Smoking habits
Website activity
Recommended actions
- Change your Beautiful People password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
- Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Beautiful People — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
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