ShellCodeX Breach Report
Paddy Power Data Breach
paddypower.com
Verified breach
Accounts exposed
590,954
Breach date
25 Oct 2010
Added to tracker
11 Oct 2015
Data classes
10
What happened
In October 2010, the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power suffered a data breach that exposed 750,000 customer records with nearly 600,000 unique email addresses. The breach was not disclosed until July 2014 and contained extensive personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and plain text security questions and answers.
Exposed data
Account balances
Dates of birth
Email addresses
IP addresses
Names
Phone numbers
Physical addresses
Security questions and answers
Usernames
Website activity
Recommended actions
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Paddy Power — 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
