Famm Data Breach

What happened

In late 2020, the Japanese family photos website Famm suffered a data breach that subsequently exposed 1.3M customer records, including 535k unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Famm 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 Famm — 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.