Uiggy 2016 Data Breach
Platform · Social gaming and Facebook-integrated entertainment services · Facebook social gaming application · Global
Uiggy Social App Breach (2016): 2.7 Million User Accounts Including Passwords Exposed
Facebook application; often referenced via integrations rather than a dedicated 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.
2.7MRecords
2016Year
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 June 2016, the Facebook app Uiggy was hacked, exposing about 4.3 million accounts (2.7 million with email addresses) including names, genders, Facebook IDs, and website activity.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
9 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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2.7M records analyzed
About Uiggy
Uiggy was a Facebook application.
Why They Hold Your Data
* Facebook-integrated social gaming application tied to app-based entertainment, account linking, and platform-mediated user interaction. The likely data context includes app account records, social-platform-linked identifiers, profile information, and gameplay or engagement metadata.
Data Points Exposed
5 verified field types
Activity History
Email Address
Full Name
Gender
Social Graph
Breach Impact
The identity and Facebook-ID data supports profiling and social-engineering; no passwords were exposed.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
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
- 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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