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Breach occurred 2017-03-09Verifiedsterkinekor.co.za
What happened
In 2016, the South African cinema company Ster-Kinekor had a security flaw which leaked a large amount of customer data via an enumeration vulnerability in the API of their old website. Whilst more than 6 million accounts were leaked by the flaw, the exposed data only contained 1.6 million unique email addresses. The data also included extensive personal information such as names, addresses, birthdates, genders and plain text passwords.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Ster-Kinekor data breach occurred on March 9, 2017. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 13, 2017.
1,619,544 accounts were affected by the Ster-Kinekor data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Ster-Kinekor breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Spoken languages.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Ster-Kinekor breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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