Verifications.io data breach
In February 2019, Verifications.io suffered a data breach that exposed dates of birth, email addresses, employers, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, job titles, names, phone numbers, and physical addresses. The breach affected 763,117,241 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 25, 2019
- Added to this tracker
- March 9, 2019
- Accounts affected
- 763,117,241
- Company domain
- verifications.io
- Data exposed
- Dates of birth, email addresses, employers, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, job titles, names, phone numbers, and physical addresses
Was my information in the Verifications.io breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with Verifications.io before February 2019, 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 Verifications.io breach, the exposed data was dates of birth, email addresses, employers, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, job titles, names, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at Verifications.io 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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