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
- Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using government-issued IDs
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In November 2013, Vodafone in Iceland suffered an attack attributed to the Turkish hacker collective "Maxn3y". The data was consequently publicly exposed and included user names, email addresses, social security numbers, SMS message, server logs and passwords from a variety of different internal sources.
About Vodafone
Global telecommunications provider offering mobile, broadband, and enterprise services.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 56K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
Recommended Actions
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Frequently Asked Questions
In November 2013, Vodafone experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 56K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as credit card, email address, full name, government id, ip address.
Approximately 56K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A high-profile executive
- A customer of Vodafone
- Or concerned about credential reuse
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