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Breach occurred 2021-06-01Verifiedstart.film
What happened
In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Russian streaming service "START". The incident led to the exposure of 44M records containing 7.4M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included the subscriber's country and password hash. START subsequently acknowledged the incident in a Telegram post and stated that the data dated back to 2021.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The START data breach occurred on June 1, 2021. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on August 30, 2022.
7,455,386 accounts were affected by the START data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The START breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Geographic locations, Names, Passwords.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the START breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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