Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries critical risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Financial fraud using exposed financial profile data
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In March 2021, the Brazilian EdTech company Descomplica suffered a data breach which was subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included almost 5 million email addresses, names, the first 6 and last 4 digits and the expiry date of credit cards, purchase histories and password hashes.
About Descomplica
Brazilian online education platform.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 4.8M records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In March 2021, Descomplica experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 4.8M records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as credit card:partial, email address, full name, password, transaction history:purchase.
Approximately 4.8M records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A public-facing individual
- A high-profile executive
- A customer of Descomplica
- Or concerned about credential reuse
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