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Breach occurred 2008-10-24Verifiedbabynames.com
What happened
In approximately 2008, the site to help parents name their children known as Baby Names suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 846k email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. When contacted in October 2018, Baby Names advised that "the breach happened at least ten years ago" and that members were notified at the time.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Baby Names data breach occurred on October 24, 2008. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on October 24, 2018.
846,742 accounts were affected by the Baby Names data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Baby Names breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Baby Names breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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