Nival data breach
In February 2016, Nival suffered a data breach that exposed avatars, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, spoken languages, usernames, and website activity. The breach affected 1,535,473 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
- February 29, 2016
- Added to this tracker
- March 3, 2016
- Accounts affected
- 1,535,473
- Company domain
- nival.com
- Data exposed
- Avatars, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, spoken languages, usernames, and website activity
Was my information in the Nival breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with Nival before February 2016, 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 Nival breach, the exposed data was avatars, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, spoken languages, usernames, and website activity.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at Nival 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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