Cannabis.com data breach
The Cannabis.com breach happened on February 5, 2014 and exposed 227,746 accounts. 10 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- cannabis.com
- Breach date
- February 5, 2014
- Recorded on
- June 1, 2014
- Accounts exposed
- 227,746
- Exposed data
- Dates of birth, Email addresses, Geographic locations, Historical passwords, Instant messenger identities, IP addresses, Passwords, Private messages, Usernames, Website activity
- Risk score
- 90 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 90 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Historical passwords, Private messages.
The risk score is a guide to how dangerous a breach is, judged by the kinds of data exposed. The number of accounts is not included.
Breaches from the same period
- Coupon Mom / Armor Games (2014-02-08, 11,010,525 accounts)
- Bell (2014 breach) (2014-02-01, 20,902 accounts)
- Tesco (2014-02-12, 2,239 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Cannabis.com password, and also change it on any other service where you used the same password. You can create a new one with the password generator.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of July 21, 2020. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.