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Breach occurred 2022-03-27Verifiedpayhere.lk
What happened
In late March 2022, the Sri Lankan payment gateway PayHere suffered a data breach that exposed more than 65GB of payment records including over 1.5M unique email addresses. The data also included IP and physical addresses, names, phone numbers, purchase histories and partially obfuscated credit card data (card type, first 6 and last 4 digits plus expiry date). A month later, PayHere published a blog on the incident titled Ensuring Integrity on PayHere Cybersecurity Incident.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The PayHere data breach occurred on March 27, 2022. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on May 2, 2022.
1,580,249 accounts were affected by the PayHere data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The PayHere breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Partial credit card data, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Purchases.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the PayHere breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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