MemeChat Data Breach
What Happened
In mid-2022, "the ultimate hub of memes" MemeChat suffered a data breach that exposed 7.4M records. Alleged to be due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch instance, the data contained 4.3M unique email addresses alongside usernames.
Compromised Data
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Affected Accounts:
4.3 million
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Breach Occurred:
June 2022
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Added to HIBP:
29 Oct 2023
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Change Your Password
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