Skip to content
Cyber Breaches
Search
Data breachResolved

Bitly data breach (2014)

In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.

Victim
Bitly
records
9.3M
SectorOther
CountryUnited States

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2014-05-08, Bitly was affected by a data breach. Approximately 9,313,136 accounts were exposed. In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Bitly
  2. bitly.comhttps://bitly.com

Related incidents

Data breachResolved

8tracks data breach (2017)

In June 2017, the online playlists service known as 8Tracks suffered a data breach which impacted 18 million accounts. In their disclosure, 8Tracks advised that "the vector for the attack was an employee’s GitHub account, which was not secured using two-factor authentication".

Victim
8tracks
Records
18.0M
Data breachResolved

Team SoloMid data breach (2014)

In December 2014, the electronic sports organisation known as Team SoloMid was hacked and 442k members accounts were leaked. The accounts included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted hashes of passwords.

Victim
Team SoloMid
Records
442.2K
Data breachResolved

JPMorgan Chase data breach

Attackers exploited a server missing two-factor authentication to breach more than 90 JPMorgan Chase servers and steal contact details for 76 million households and 7 million small businesses — one of the largest intrusions ever into a U.S. financial institution.

Victim
JPMorgan Chase
Records
83.0M