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Breach occurred 2020-06-01Verifiedmashable.com
What happened
In approximately mid-2020, Mashable suffered a data breach that subsequently turned up publicly in November 2020. The data included 1.4 million unique email addresses along with names, genders, expired auth tokens, physical locations, links to social media profiles and days and months of birth. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Mashable data breach occurred on June 1, 2020. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on November 10, 2020.
1,414,677 accounts were affected by the Mashable data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Mashable breach exposed the following data types: Auth tokens, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Partial dates of birth, Social media profiles.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Mashable breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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