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Breach occurred 2018-07-09Verifiedsharethis.com
What happened
In July 2018, the social bookmarking and sharing service ShareThis suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 41 million unique email addresses alongside names and in some cases, dates of birth and password hashes. In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The ShareThis data breach occurred on July 9, 2018. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 3, 2019.
40,960,499 accounts were affected by the ShareThis data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The ShareThis breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Names, Passwords.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the ShareThis breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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