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Breach occurred 2018-09-05Verifiedknuddels.de
What happened
In September 2018, the German social media website Knuddels suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 808k unique email addresses alongside usernames, real names, the city of the person and their password in plain text. Knuddels was subsequently fined €20k for the breach.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Knuddels data breach occurred on September 5, 2018. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on April 8, 2019.
808,330 accounts were affected by the Knuddels data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Knuddels breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Geographic locations, Names, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Knuddels breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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