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Wishbone (2016)

Wishbone (2016)

Wishbone (2016)

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Disclosed

August 7, 2016

3519 days ago

Records

2.2M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Unauthorized Access

Industry

Technology

Description

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.

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Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

Email AddressesPhone NumbersDate of BirthNamesUsernamesGender
Wishbone (2016) Data Breach (2016) - 2.2M Records | ExposedMap