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ShareThis data breach (2018)

In July 2018, the social bookmarking and sharing service ShareThis suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 41 million unique email addresses alongside names and in some cases, dates of birth and password hashes.

Victim
ShareThis
records
41.0M
SectorRetail
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 2018-07-09, ShareThis was affected by a data breach. Approximately 40,960,499 accounts were exposed. In July 2018, the social bookmarking and sharing service ShareThis suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 41 million unique email addresses alongside names and in some cases, dates of birth and password hashes.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#ShareThis
  2. sharethis.comhttps://sharethis.com

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