MoneyBookers Data Breach (2008)
Money Bookers
highXposedOrNot
Disclosed
January 1, 2009
6294 days ago
Records
4.5M
Confirmed
Root Cause
Unauthorized Access
Industry
Finance
Description
Moneybookers, a subsidiary of Optimal Payments, experienced a data breach in 2009. The breach involved a compromised VPN, and as a result, user data from approximately 4.5 million Moneybookers accounts was exposed. The leaked information included user details such as addresses, emails, telephone numbers, and birth dates.
Exposed Data Types
Exposed Data
Phone NumbersIP AddressesPhysical addressesDates of birthNamesEmail addresses