Hopamedia 2020 Data Breach
Telecommunications / Telecommunications
Hopamedia 2020 Circulating Data Breach
A telecommunications service in the telecommunications sector.
Compilation · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
28/100
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.
23.8MRecords
2020Year
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 2024, data relating to an unknown service referred to as "Hopamedia" and dating back to 2020 appeared in a publicly exposed database. The data included almost 24M records of email address, name, phone number, the country of the individual and their telecommunications carrier.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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23.8M records analyzed
About Hopamedia
Hopamedia is a telecommunications service in the telecommunications sector.
Why They Hold Your Data
Hopamedia is a telecommunications service in the telecommunications sector. Services like this typically hold country, email addresses, names, mobile carrier, phone numbers through account registration and normal operations.
Recent Developments
The Hopamedia dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
Data Points Exposed
5 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
Geographic location
Phone Number
Telecom Carrier
Breach Impact
The exposure created downstream fraud and phishing risk for those affected and drew scrutiny of Hopamedia's data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A telecom breach: subscriber and device data supports SIM-swap, account takeover and location inference. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- 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 and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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