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Breach occurred 2013-11-03Verifiedweheartit.com
What happened
In November 2013, the image-based social network We Heart It suffered a data breach. The incident wasn't discovered until October 2017 when 8.6 million user records were sent to HIBP. The data contained user names, email addresses and password hashes, 80% of which were salted SHA-256 with the remainder being MD5 with no salt.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The We Heart It data breach occurred on November 3, 2013. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on October 14, 2017.
8,600,635 accounts were affected by the We Heart It data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The We Heart It breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the We Heart It breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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