Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries high risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
- Social media account targeting and impersonation
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In approximately mid-2020, Mashable suffered a data breach that subsequently turned up publicly in November 2020. The data included 1.4 million unique email addresses along with names, genders, expired auth tokens, physical locations, links to social media profiles and days and months of birth. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
About Mashable
Digital media and news platform.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 1.4M records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In June 2020, Mashable experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 1.4M records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as auth token, date of birth:partial, email address, full name, gender.
Approximately 1.4M records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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