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Breach occurred 2016-09-04Verifiedclixsense.com
What happened
In September 2016, the paid-to-click site ClixSense suffered a data breach which exposed 2.4 million subscriber identities. The breached data was then posted online by the attackers who claimed it was a subset of a larger data breach totalling 6.6 million records. The leaked data was extensive and included names, physical, email and IP addresses, genders and birth dates, account balances and passwords stored as plain text.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The ClixSense data breach occurred on September 4, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on September 11, 2016.
2,424,784 accounts were affected by the ClixSense data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The ClixSense breach exposed the following data types: Account balances, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Payment histories, Payment methods, Physical addresses, Usernames, Website activity.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the ClixSense breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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