We Heart It Data Breach

What happened

In November 2013, the image-based social network We Heart It suffered a data breach. The incident wasn't discovered until October 2017 when 8.6 million user records were sent to HIBP. The data contained user names, email addresses and password hashes, 80% of which were salted SHA-256 with the remainder being MD5 with no salt.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your We Heart It 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 We Heart It — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.