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Breach occurred 2020-06-23Verifiedswvl.com
What happened
In June 2020, the Egyptian bus operator Swvl suffered a data breach which impacted over 4 million members of the service. The exposed data included names, email addresses, phone numbers, profile photos, partial credit card data (type and last 4 digits) and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes, all of which was subsequently shared extensively throughout online hacking communities. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Swvl data breach occurred on June 23, 2020. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 31, 2020.
4,195,918 accounts were affected by the Swvl data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Swvl breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Names, Partial credit card data, Passwords, Phone numbers, Profile photos.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Swvl breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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