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Beautiful People Data Breach

beautifulpeople.com
Significant exposure
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.
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