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Breach occurred 2016-11-17Verifiedcashcrate.com
What happened
In June 2017, news broke that CashCrate had suffered a data breach exposing 6.8 million records. The breach of the cash-for-surveys site dated back to November 2016 and exposed names, physical addresses, email addresses and passwords stored in plain text for older accounts along with weak MD5 hashes for newer ones.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The CashCrate data breach occurred on November 17, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on April 20, 2018.
6,844,490 accounts were affected by the CashCrate data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The CashCrate breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Physical addresses.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the CashCrate breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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