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Daily Quiz Data Breach

dailyquiz.me
Significant exposure
Verified breach Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed 8,032,404
Breach date 13 Jan 2021
Added to tracker 21 May 2021
Data classes 4

What happened

In January 2021, the quiz website Daily Quiz suffered a data breach that exposed over 8 million unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored in plain text.

Exposed data

Email addresses IP addresses Passwords Usernames

Recommended actions

  • Change your Daily Quiz 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 Daily Quiz โ€” attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
  • Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
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