WiredBucks Data Breach

What happened

In May 2022, the now defunct social media influencer platform WiredBucks suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The incident exposed over 900k email and IP addresses alongside names, usernames, earnings via the platform, physical addresses and passwords stored as plain text.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your WiredBucks 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 WiredBucks — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• 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.