Patreon Data Breach (2015)
Patreon
highXposedOrNot
Disclosed
October 1, 2015
3830 days ago
Records
2.3M
Confirmed
Root Cause
Hacking
Industry
Transportation
Description
Patreon, an artist crowdfunding platform, had a significant data breach in September 2015 due to a publicly available debug version of their website. The breach compromised registered names, email addresses, posts, and some shipping and billing addresses of 2.3 million unique users.
Exposed Data Types
Exposed Data
PasswordsPhysical addressesEmail addressesPrivate messages