AndroidLista 2021 Data Breach
Platform · Android app discovery, reviews, and download services · Android apps and games review platform · Global
AndroidLista Android App Review Site Breach (2021): 6.6 Million User Accounts Including Passwords Exposed
Android app and game reviews community site.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
8/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Lower: limited current risk based on data value and recency.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
6.6MRecords
2021Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Breach Summary
In July 2021, the Android app/game review site AndroidLista (androidlista.com) suffered a data breach exposing 6.6 million user records including email addresses, names, usernames, and salted SHA-1 password hashes; the data was posted to a hacking forum and later added to Have I Been Pwned (October 2023). AndroidLista did not respond to inquiries. The credentials are usable for credential stuffing.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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6.6M records analyzed
About AndroidLista
AndroidLista (androidlista.com) is an Android applications and games review/download website with user accounts for reviews and community features.
Why They Hold Your Data
Android app-discovery platforms collect user accounts, emails, browsing activity, and engagement records tied to app reviews, downloads, and mobile-software discovery.
Recent Developments
AndroidLista was breached on July 28, 2021; the data was posted to a hacking forum and added to Have I Been Pwned in October 2023 (about 49% of emails were already known). AndroidLista did not respond to inquiries.
Data Points Exposed
4 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
Password High
Username
Breach Impact
The exposure of emails, names, usernames, and salted SHA-1 passwords for 6.6 million users enables credential-stuffing and account-takeover where passwords were reused, plus targeted phishing. Salted SHA-1 offers limited protection against cracking.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Credential stuffing and account takeover against reused passwords (salted SHA-1) | • Targeted phishing using exposed emails
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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