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AhaShare.com

AhaShare Data Breach (2013)

AhaShare.com

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Disclosed

May 1, 2013

4713 days ago

Records

180.5K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Other

Description

AhaShare.com, a torrent site, experienced a data breach in May 2013 that resulted in the public exposure of over 180,000 user accounts. The breach included various personal information of registered users, and notably, despite assurances of not distributing personally identifiable information, the site inadvertently leaked the IP addresses linked to the registered accounts.

Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsIP AddressesGeographic locationsUsernamesEmail addressesWebsite activity
AhaShare.com Data Breach (2013) - 180K Records | ExposedMap