Beautiful People data breach
In November 2015, Beautiful People suffered a data breach that exposed beauty ratings, car ownership statuses, dates of birth, drinking habits, education levels, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, home ownership statuses, income levels, ip addresses, job titles, names, passwords, personal descriptions, personal interests, physical attributes, sexual orientations, smoking habits, and website activity. The breach affected 1,100,089 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
- November 11, 2015
- Added to this tracker
- April 25, 2016
- Accounts affected
- 1,100,089
- Company domain
- beautifulpeople.com
- Data exposed
- Beauty ratings, car ownership statuses, dates of birth, drinking habits, education levels, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, home ownership statuses, income levels, ip addresses, job titles, names, passwords, personal descriptions, personal interests, physical attributes, sexual orientations, smoking habits, and website activity
Was my information in the Beautiful People breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with Beautiful People before November 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 Beautiful People breach, the exposed data was beauty ratings, car ownership statuses, dates of birth, drinking habits, education levels, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, home ownership statuses, income levels, ip addresses, job titles, names, passwords, personal descriptions, personal interests, physical attributes, sexual orientations, smoking habits, and website activity.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at Beautiful People 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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