MyFitnessPal Data Breach
| Breach: | MyFitnessPal |
| Date of breach: | 1 Feb 2018 |
| Number of accounts: | 143,606,147 |
| Compromised data: | Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames |
| Description: | In February 2018, the diet and exercise service MyFitnessPal suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 144 million unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-1 and bcrypt hashes (the former for earlier accounts, the latter for newer accounts). In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to “[email protected]“. |
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