Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries critical risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Financial fraud using exposed financial profile data
- Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using government-issued IDs
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In October 2018, the bullion education and dealer services site GoldSilver suffered a data breach that exposed 243k unique email addresses spanning customers and mailing list subscribers. An extensive amount of personal information on customers was obtained including names, addresses, phone numbers, purchases and passwords and answers to security questions stored as MD5 hashes. In a small number of cases, passport, social security numbers and partial credit card data was also exposed. The data breach and source code belonging to GoldSilver was publicly posted on a dark web service where it remained months later. When notified about the incident, GoldSilver advised that "all affected customers have been directly notified".
About GoldSilver
Precious metals dealer and investment education company.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 243K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
Recommended Actions
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Frequently Asked Questions
In October 2018, GoldSilver experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 243K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as bank account number, credit card:partial, email address, full name, ip address.
Approximately 243K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A customer of GoldSilver
- Or concerned about credential reuse
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