Paddy Power data breach

The Paddy Power breach happened on October 25, 2010 and exposed 590,954 accounts. 10 kinds of data were exposed.

Overview

Site

paddypower.com

Breach date

October 25, 2010

Recorded on

October 11, 2015

Accounts exposed

590,954

Exposed data

Account balances, Dates of birth, Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Security questions and answers, Usernames, Website activity

Risk score

77 out of 100

Risk based on the exposed data

This breach scores 77 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Security questions and answers, Account balances, Phone numbers.

Breaches from the same period

• Gawker (2010-12-11, 1,247,574 accounts)
• 7k7k (2011-01-01, 9,121,434 accounts)
• Duowan.com (2011-01-01, 2,639,894 accounts)

What affected users should do

• Passwords were not exposed, but you may receive fake emails aimed at the exposed email addresses.
• Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
• Phone numbers were exposed, so watch out for impersonation by text message or phone call.
• Answers to security questions were exposed, so change the answers on any service that uses the same questions.

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