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Breach occurred 2018-10-21Verifiedgoldsilver.com
What happened
In October 2018, the bullion education and dealer services site GoldSilver suffered a data breach that exposed 243k unique email addresses spanning customers and mailing list subscribers. An extensive amount of personal information on customers was obtained including names, addresses, phone numbers, purchases and passwords and answers to security questions stored as MD5 hashes. In a small number of cases, passport, social security numbers and partial credit card data was also exposed. The data breach and source code belonging to GoldSilver was publicly posted on a dark web service where it remained months later. When notified about the incident, GoldSilver advised that "all affected customers have been directly notified".
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The GoldSilver data breach occurred on October 21, 2018. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on December 27, 2018.
242,715 accounts were affected by the GoldSilver data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The GoldSilver breach exposed the following data types: Bank account numbers, Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Partial credit card data, Passport numbers, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Purchases, Security questions and answers, Social security numbers.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the GoldSilver breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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