Ge.tt 2017 Data Breach

Ge.tt File Sharing Service Breach (2017): 2.5 Million User Accounts Including Passwords Exposed

Platform · File sharing and cloud content transfer services · File sharing platform · Global

Ge.tt File Sharing Service Breach (2017): 2.5 Million User Accounts Including Passwords Exposed

File-sharing platform

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
10/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Lower: limited current risk based on data value and recency.
Data Sensitivity i
Standard
Exposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
2.5MRecords
2017Year

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Classification Tags
Documents & StorageFile SharingUsers2017

Breach Summary

In May 2017, the file-sharing platform Ge.tt suffered a data breach that surfaced for sale on a dark-web marketplace in February 2019 alongside numerous other breaches. It exposed about 2.48 million unique email addresses along with names, social-media profile identifiers, and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes.

Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.

9 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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2.5M records analyzed

About Ge.tt

Ge.tt was a file-sharing platform for quickly sharing files and links.

Why They Hold Your Data

File-sharing platform used for cloud-based content transfer and account-linked sharing activity. The likely data context includes user credentials, contact details, file-sharing metadata, and records associated with uploaded or shared content.

Data Points Exposed

4 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
Password High
Social Media Profile

Breach Impact

SHA-256 without salt is crackable at scale, exposing reused credentials; names and social profiles support profiling.

Exploitation & Downstream Threats

• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Social media account targeting and impersonation

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

  1. Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
  2. Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.

How ObscureIQ Can Help

  1. Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
  2. Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
  3. ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).

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