8tracks data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated 25 Aug 2019

This article is about the June 2017 breach of 8tracks. For every breach, see Breaches.

8tracks

The 8tracks data breach exposed 17,979,961 accounts from 8tracks.com in June 2017. The data taken includes passwords and email addresses.^[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 16 Feb 2018, 8 months later. It is the 99th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

8tracks’s breach included 2 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:

Data	What it’s used for
Passwords	Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them.
Email addresses	Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.

Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, 8tracks among them, without showing the data.
Change your 8tracks password.If the account still exists, sign in at 8tracks (8tracks.com) and change it.
Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
Distrust messages that mention 8tracks.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.

27 Jun 2017: the breach, as best it can be dated.
16 Feb 2018: Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 8 months later.
25 Aug 2019: the entry was last updated.

Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:

See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.

^ Troy Hunt. “8tracks”, Have I Been Pwned, added 16 Feb 2018. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.