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Breach occurred 2012-03-22Verifiedlast.fm
What happened
In March 2012, the music website Last.fm was hacked and 43 million user accounts were exposed. Whilst Last.fm knew of an incident back in 2012, the scale of the hack was not known until the data was released publicly in September 2016. The breach included 37 million unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Last.fm data breach occurred on March 22, 2012. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on September 20, 2016.
37,217,682 accounts were affected by the Last.fm data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Last.fm breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames, Website activity.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Last.fm breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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