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Peatix Data Breach

peatix.com
Significant exposure
Verified breach Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed 4,227,907
Breach date 20 Jan 2019
Added to tracker 06 Dec 2020
Data classes 3

What happened

In January 2019, the event organising platform Peatix suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 4.2M email addresses, names and salted password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Email addresses Names Passwords

Recommended actions

  • Change your Peatix 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 Peatix โ€” attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
  • Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected? Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
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