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Breach occurred 2019-02-15Verifiedyounow.com
What happened
In February 2019, data from the live broadcasting service YouNow appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace. Whilst it's not clear what date the actual breach occurred on, the impacted data included 18M unique email addresses, IP addresses, names, usernames and links to social media profiles. As authentication is performed via social providers, no passwords were exposed in the breach. Many records didn't have associated email addresses thus the unique number is lower than the reported total number of accounts.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The YouNow data breach occurred on February 15, 2019. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 18, 2019.
18,241,518 accounts were affected by the YouNow data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The YouNow breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Social media profiles, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the YouNow breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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