MajorGeeks data breach
The MajorGeeks breach happened on November 15, 2015 and exposed 269,548 accounts. 4 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- majorgeeks.com
- Breach date
- November 15, 2015
- Recorded on
- March 3, 2016
- Accounts exposed
- 269,548
- Exposed data
- Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames
- Risk score
- 68 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 68 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Email addresses, IP addresses.
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
- VTech (2015-11-13, 4,833,678 accounts)
- Comcast (2015-11-08, 616,882 accounts)
- Ancestry (2015-11-07, 297,806 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your MajorGeeks 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 December 24, 2017. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.