Mashable data breach
The Mashable breach happened on June 1, 2020 and exposed 1,414,677 accounts. 8 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- mashable.com
- Breach date
- June 1, 2020
- Recorded on
- November 10, 2020
- Accounts exposed
- 1,414,677
- Exposed data
- Auth tokens, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Partial dates of birth, Social media profiles
- 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 Auth tokens, Email addresses, Names.
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
- Preen.Me (2020-05-25, 236,105 accounts)
- Nulled.ch (2020-05-20, 43,491 accounts)
- Acuity (2020-06-18, 14,055,729 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Mashable 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 November 15, 2023. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.