Animoto data breach
In July 2018, Animoto suffered a data breach that exposed dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, names, and passwords. The breach affected 22,437,749 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
- July 10, 2018
- Added to this tracker
- July 18, 2019
- Accounts affected
- 22,437,749
- Company domain
- animoto.com
- Data exposed
- Dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, names, and passwords
Was my information in the Animoto breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with Animoto before July 2018, 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 Animoto breach, the exposed data was dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, names, and passwords.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at Animoto 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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