ShellCodeX Breach Report
Money Bookers Data Breach
moneybookers.com
Verified breach
Accounts exposed
4,483,605
Breach date
01 Jan 2009
Added to tracker
30 Nov 2015
Data classes
6
What happened
Sometime in 2009, the e-wallet service known as Money Bookers suffered a data breach which exposed almost 4.5M customers. Now called Skrill, the breach was not discovered until October 2015 and included names, email addresses, home addresses and IP addresses.
Exposed data
Dates of birth
Email addresses
IP addresses
Names
Phone numbers
Physical addresses
Recommended actions
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Money Bookers — 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.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
Check on HIBP
