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
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
What happened in the , Wanelo, Breach? March 3rd 2025, 7:00 pm EST, In December 2018, Wanelo, a digital shopping platform, experienced a data breach affecting approximately 23 million user accounts. The compromised data included email addresses, passwords stored as either MD5 or bcrypt hashes, names, physical addresses, and IP addresses. The breach was discovered in April 2019 when the data was found for sale on dark web marketplaces.,
The hacker known as "Gnosticplayers" claimed responsibility for this breach, along with attacks on 44 other firms. Gnosticplayers has been known to sell large quantities of stolen data on dark web marketplaces, contributing to a series of significant data breaches during that period.,
About Wanelo
Online shopping discovery platform.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 23.2M records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In December 2018, Wanelo experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 23.2M records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as email address, full name, ip address, password, physical address.
Approximately 23.2M records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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