ShellCodeX Breach Report
Mate1.com Data Breach
mate1.com
Verified breach
Sensitive
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
27,393,015
Breach date
29 Feb 2016
Added to tracker
14 Apr 2016
Data classes
25
What happened
In February 2016, the dating site mate1.com suffered a huge data breach resulting in the disclosure of over 27 million subscribers' information. The data included deeply personal information about their private lives including drug and alcohol habits, incomes levels and sexual fetishes as well as passwords stored in plain text.
Exposed data
Astrological signs
Dates of birth
Drinking habits
Drug habits
Education levels
Email addresses
Ethnicities
Fitness levels
Genders
Geographic locations
Income levels
Job titles
Names
Parenting plans
Passwords
Personal descriptions
Physical attributes
Political views
Relationship statuses
Religions
Sexual fetishes
Travel habits
Usernames
Website activity
Work habits
Recommended actions
- Change your Mate1.com 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 Mate1.com — 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.
Am I affected?
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