APOIA.se 2025 Data Breach
Company · Brazilian membership and crowdfunding platform for creators · Online platform · Brazil
APOIA.se Brazilian Creator Support Platform Breach (2025): 451K Supporter Records Including Contact Details Exposed
Brazilian membership and crowdfunding platform for creators.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
38/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
451KRecords
2025Year
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.
Crucial data exposed
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
In December 2025, a database from the Brazilian crowdfunding platform APOIA.se was posted to a forum; the company confirmed the breach in January 2026. It exposed about 451,000 unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, and phone numbers. Payment data was reportedly protected by encryption.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
9 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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451K records analyzed
About APOIA.se
APOIA.se is a Brazilian crowdfunding platform supporting creators and social causes.
Why They Hold Your Data
Membership and creator-crowdfunding platforms collect supporter and creator account data, emails, payment-adjacent records, usernames, and community participation details tied to recurring financial support.
Data Points Exposed
3 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
Physical address High
Breach Impact
The name/address/phone/email set supports phishing and physical-location profiling of donors and creators.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
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 this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.
What You Should Do
- Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
- 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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