ClickASnap 2022 Data Breach
Arts & Creative / Photography
ClickASnap 2022 Data Breach
An online photo sharing platform.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
23/100
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.
3.3MRecords
2022Year
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 September 2022, the online photo sharing platform ClickASnap suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 3.3M personal records including email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as SHA-512 hashes. Further, a collection of paid subscriptions were also included and contained names, physical addresses and amounts paid.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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3.3M records analyzed
About ClickASnap
ClickASnap is an online photo sharing platform.
Why They Hold Your Data
ClickASnap is an online photo sharing platform. Services like this typically hold email addresses, names, passwords, physical addresses, social profiles, transaction history, usernames through account registration and normal operations.
Recent Developments
The ClickASnap dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
Data Points Exposed
7 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
Password High
Physical address High
Social Media Profile
Transaction History
Username
Breach Impact
The exposure of credentials alongside personal data heightened account-takeover and reuse risk for ClickASnap users and drew scrutiny of its data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure | • 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 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.
- Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
- 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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