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Breach occurred 2015-07-16Verifiedsoundwave.com
What happened
In approximately mid 2015, the music tracking app Soundwave suffered a data breach. The breach stemmed from an incident whereby "production data had been used to populate the test database" and was then inadvertently exposed in a MongoDB. The data contained 130k records and included email addresses, dates of birth, genders and MD5 hashes of passwords without a salt.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Soundwave data breach occurred on July 16, 2015. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 17, 2017.
130,705 accounts were affected by the Soundwave data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Soundwave breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, Names, Passwords, Social connections.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Soundwave breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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