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Breach occurred 2016-08-07Verifiedwishbone.io
What happened
In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Wishbone (2016) data breach occurred on August 7, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 15, 2017.
2,247,314 accounts were affected by the Wishbone (2016) data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Wishbone (2016) breach exposed the following data types: Auth tokens, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Phone numbers, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Wishbone (2016) breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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