000webhost data breach
In March 2015, 000webhost suffered a data breach that exposed email addresses, ip addresses, names, and passwords. The breach affected 14,936,670 accounts. If you had an account there, change your password there, never reuse it anywhere else, and check your email address with the free scan.
- Breach date
- March 1, 2015
- Added to this tracker
- October 26, 2015
- Accounts affected
- 14,936,670
- Company domain
- 000webhost.com
- Data exposed
- Email addresses, ip addresses, names, and passwords
Was my information in the 000webhost breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with 000webhost before March 2015, your information may have been included. The free Ghost Delete scan checks your email address against known data breaches, so run it to see whether your address shows up.
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What data was exposed?
In the 000webhost breach, the exposed data was email addresses, ip addresses, names, and passwords.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at 000webhost right away, and anywhere else you reused it.
- Never reuse passwords: give every account a unique password.
- Watch for phishing emails and messages that use the exposed data to look convincing, and go to the site directly instead of clicking links.
- Run the free breach scan to check your email address against other breaches.
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