Lyrics Mania Data Breach

What happened

In December 2017, the song lyrics website known as Lyrics Mania suffered a data breach. The data in the breach included 109k usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords. Numerous attempts were made to contact Lyrics Mania about the incident, however no responses were received.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Lyrics Mania 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 Lyrics Mania — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.