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Breach details for MyHeritage

Title: MyHeritage
Domain: myheritage.com
Breach: 2017-10-26
Added: 2019-02-20T21:04:04Z
Modified: 2019-02-20T21:04:04Z
Data Count: 91991358
Description: In October 2017, the genealogy website MyHeritage suffered a data breach. The incident was reported 7 months later after a security researcher discovered the data and contacted MyHeritage. In total, more than 92M customer records were exposed and included email addresses and salted SHA-1 password hashes. In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
Type of Data: Email addresses, Passwords