ShellCodeX Breach Report
StoryBird Data Breach
storybird.com
Verified breach
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
1,047,200
Breach date
07 Aug 2015
Added to tracker
02 Feb 2021
Data classes
4
What happened
In August 2015, the storytelling service StoryBird suffered a data breach exposing 4 million records with 1 million unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, usernames and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Exposed data
Email addresses
Names
Passwords
Usernames
Recommended actions
- Change your StoryBird 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 StoryBird — 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.
Check on HIBP
