Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries critical risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Financial fraud using exposed financial profile data
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In June 2020, the Egyptian bus operator Swvl suffered a data breach which impacted over 4 million members of the service. The exposed data included names, email addresses, phone numbers, profile photos, partial credit card data (type and last 4 digits) and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes, all of which was subsequently shared extensively throughout online hacking communities. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw.
About Swvl
Mass transit and mobility platform.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 4.2M 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, Swvl experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 4.2M records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as credit card:partial, email address, full name, password, phone number.
Approximately 4.2M records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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