Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries high risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
What happened in the , Patreon, Breach? March 3rd 2025, 7:00 pm EST, In October 2015, Patreon, a popular crowdfunding platform, experienced a significant data breach that exposed approximately 2.3 million user accounts. The breach occurred when hackers exploited an exposed mirror of the site intended for testing and development purposes.,
The compromised data included usernames, email addresses, posts, some shipping addresses, and a limited number of billing addresses. However, financial information, passwords, social security numbers, and tax form information remained encrypted and secure,
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Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 2.3M records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In October 2015, Patreon experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 2.3M records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as activity history:website activity, email address, messages and chat:private message, password, physical address.
Approximately 2.3M records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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