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Breach occurred 2012-11-01Verifiednetlog.com
What happened
In July 2018, the Belgian social networking site Netlog identified a data breach of their systems dating back to November 2012 (PDF). Although the service was discontinued in 2015, the data breach still impacted 49 million subscribers for whom email addresses and plain text passwords were exposed.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Netlog data breach occurred on November 1, 2012. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 15, 2019.
49,038,354 accounts were affected by the Netlog data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Netlog breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Netlog breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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