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Mashable Data Breach

mashable.com
Significant exposure
Verified breach
Accounts exposed 1,414,677
Breach date 01 Jun 2020
Added to tracker 10 Nov 2020
Data classes 8

What happened

In approximately mid-2020, Mashable suffered a data breach that subsequently turned up publicly in November 2020. The data included 1.4 million unique email addresses along with names, genders, expired auth tokens, physical locations, links to social media profiles and days and months of birth. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Auth tokens Email addresses Genders Geographic locations IP addresses Names Partial dates of birth Social media profiles

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