HuntStand 2024 Data Breach
Platform · Hunting and land management tools · Mobile app for outdoor navigation · USA
HuntStand Hunting & Land Management App Data Scrape (2024): 2.8 Million User Records Including Location & DOB Exposed
Hunting and land management mobile app.
Scrape · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
19/100
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.
2.8MRecords
2024Year
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Breach Summary
HuntStand, a mobile app used by hunters and land managers across the United States, had data scraped from its platform and publicly posted to a hacking forum in March 2024. The scrape was not a direct system breach but involved automated collection of publicly accessible or poorly protected profile data. Approximately 2.8 million unique user records were exposed in the incident. The exposed data included email addresses, names, dates of birth, and country of residence. For HuntStand users, the risk extends beyond typical identity theft concerns. The platform tracks GPS locations, property boundaries, and hunting activity, meaning that even indirect exposure of user identities can help bad actors infer private land access points, recurring movement patterns, and home-area routines. This creates a real potential for physical-world targeting. HuntStand has not made prominent public statements about the incident, and no regulatory action or litigation has been documented. Affected users should treat their email address as compromised, watch for phishing attempts that reference outdoor or hunting activity, and consider whether any location-linked data in their profile is visible to others. Anyone who reuses the same password across accounts should change it immediately.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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2.8M records analyzed
About HuntStand
HuntStand is a mobile application providing hunting and land management tools including GPS mapping, property boundary overlays, trail cameras integration, weather forecasting, and hunting log features. The platform serves hunters and outdoor enthusiasts in the United States who use digital mapping to plan hunts and manage private land. It operates on a freemium model with paid subscription tiers for premium mapping and data features.
Why They Hold Your Data
Outdoor navigation and land-management apps collect user accounts, device data, precise location history, map annotations, property boundaries, and activity records tied to hunting and land use.
Recent Developments
HuntStand continues to operate as a hunting and land management app. The platform has maintained its position in the outdoor recreation app market. No major organizational changes have been publicly reported.
Data Points Exposed
4 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
Geographic location
Breach Impact
In March 2024 millions of records scraped from HuntStand were posted to a hacking forum. The exposed dataset contained approximately 2.8 million unique email addresses, with many records also including names, dates of birth, and country. The incident was a scraping event rather than a direct system breach. HuntStand has not made prominent public statements about the incident. No regulatory action or litigation specific to this scrape has been documented.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • 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 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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