Soundwave data breach
The Soundwave breach happened on July 16, 2015 and exposed 130,705 accounts. 7 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- soundwave.com
- Breach date
- July 16, 2015
- Recorded on
- March 17, 2017
- Accounts exposed
- 130,705
- Exposed data
- Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, Names, Passwords, Social connections
- Risk score
- 74 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 74 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Dates of birth, Email 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
- Seedpeer (2015-07-12, 281,924 accounts)
- WildStar (2015-07-11, 738,556 accounts)
- Hemmakväll (2015-07-08, 47,297 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Soundwave 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 March 17, 2017. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.