Money Bookers 2009 Data Breach
Financial Services / Financial Services
Money Bookers 2009 Data Breach
A financial services service in the financial services sector.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
41/100
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.
3.3MRecords
2009Year
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
March 16th 2025, 8:00 pm EDT, In 2009, Moneybookers, now known as Skrill, experienced a significant data breach that compromised the personal information of approximately 4.5 million customers. The exposed data included names, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and IP addresses. The breach remained undisclosed until October 2015, when the compromised data surfaced on the dark web.
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 Money Bookers
Money Bookers is a financial services service in the financial services sector.
Why They Hold Your Data
Money Bookers is a financial services service in the financial services sector. Services like this typically hold dates of birth, email addresses, names, IP addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses through account registration and normal operations.
Recent Developments
The Money Bookers dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
Data Points Exposed
6 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
IP Address
Phone Number
Physical address High
Breach Impact
The exposure created downstream fraud and phishing risk for those affected and drew scrutiny of Money Bookers's data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A financial-institution breach: account, wealth or payment data supports direct fraud and highly credible financial-impersonation scams. 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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