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Mathway data breach (2020)

In January 2020, the math solving website Mathway suffered a data breach that exposed over 25M records. The data was subsequently sold on a dark web marketplace and included names, Google and Facebook IDs, email addresses and salted password hashes.

Victim
Mathway
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25.7M
SectorRetail

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 2020-01-13, Mathway was affected by a data breach. Approximately 25,692,862 accounts were exposed. In January 2020, the math solving website Mathway suffered a data breach that exposed over 25M records. The data was subsequently sold on a dark web marketplace and included names, Google and Facebook IDs, email addresses and salted password hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Mathway
  2. mathway.comhttps://mathway.com

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