Guntrader Data Breach

What happened

In July 2021, the United Kingdom based website Guntrader suffered a data breach that exposed 112k unique email addresses. Extensive personal information was also exposed including names, phone numbers, geolocation data, IP addresses and various physical address attributes (cities for all users, complete addresses for some). Passwords stored as bcrypt hashes were also exposed.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Guntrader 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 Guntrader — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.