Trik Spam Botnet data breach
The Trik Spam Botnet breach happened on June 12, 2018 and exposed 43,432,346 accounts. Only one kind of data was exposed: Email addresses.
Overview
- Breach date
- June 12, 2018
- Recorded on
- June 14, 2018
- Accounts exposed
- 43,432,346
- Exposed data
- Email addresses
- Risk score
- 10 out of 100
This data is a list collected for sending spam, not a breach of the service itself.
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 10 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by 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
- Estonian Citizens (via Estonian Cybercrime Bureau) (2018-06-07, 655,161 accounts)
- Mortal Online (2018-06-17, 606,637 accounts)
- Exactis (2018-06-01, 131,577,763 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.
This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of January 5, 2022. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.