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MemeChat data breach (2022)

In mid-2022, "the ultimate hub of memes" MemeChat suffered a data breach that exposed 7.4M records. Alleged to be due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch instance, the data contained 4.3M unique email addresses alongside usernames.

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MemeChat
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4.3M
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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 2022-06-01, MemeChat was affected by a data breach. Approximately 4,348,570 accounts were exposed. In mid-2022, "the ultimate hub of memes" MemeChat suffered a data breach that exposed 7.4M records. Alleged to be due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch instance, the data contained 4.3M unique email addresses alongside usernames.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#MemeChat
  2. memechat.apphttps://memechat.app

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