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Breach occurred 2013-01-01Verifiedfaceup.dk
What happened
In 2013, the Danish social media site FaceUP suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 87k unique email addresses alongside genders, dates of birth, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. When notified of the incident, FaceUP advised they had identified a SQL injection vulnerability at the time and forced password resets on impacted customers.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The FaceUP data breach occurred on January 1, 2013. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on January 13, 2019.
87,633 accounts were affected by the FaceUP data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The FaceUP breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the FaceUP breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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