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Kickstarter Data Breach (2014)

Kickstarter

highXposedOrNot
Disclosed

February 1, 2014

4437 days ago

Records

5.2M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

Kickstarter, a popular crowdfunding platform, suffered a data breach in 2014 where personal information of over 5.2 million users was exposed, including email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. The company took measures to notify users, reset all users' passwords as a precautionary measure and secure the platform to prevent further breaches.

Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsEmail addresses