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We Heart It data breach (2013)

In November 2013, the image-based social network We Heart It suffered a data breach. The incident wasn't discovered until October 2017 when 8.6 million user records were sent to HIBP.

Victim
We Heart It
records
8.6M
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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 2013-11-03, We Heart It was affected by a data breach. Approximately 8,600,635 accounts were exposed. In November 2013, the image-based social network We Heart It suffered a data breach. The incident wasn't discovered until October 2017 when 8.6 million user records were sent to HIBP.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#WeHeartIt
  2. weheartit.comhttps://weheartit.com

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