Sport 2000 Data Breach

What happened

In April 2024, the French sporting equipment manufacturer Sport 2000 announced it had suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently put up for sale on a popular hacking forum and included 4.4M rows with 3.2M unique email addresses alongside names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and purchases made by store name.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Sport 2000 — 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.