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FaceUP data breach (2013)

In 2013, the Danish social media site FaceUP suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 87k unique email addresses alongside genders, dates of birth, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.

Victim
FaceUP
records
87.6K
SectorRetail
CountryDenmark

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 2013-01-01, FaceUP was affected by a data breach. Approximately 87,633 accounts were exposed. In 2013, the Danish social media site FaceUP suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 87k unique email addresses alongside genders, dates of birth, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#FaceUP
  2. faceup.dkhttps://faceup.dk

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