Adopt Me Trading Values data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the July 2022 breach of Adopt Me Trading Values. For every breach, see Breaches.

The Adopt Me Trading Values data breach exposed 86,136 accounts from adoptmetradingvalues.com in July 2022. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, email addresses and IP addresses.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 10 Feb 2025, 3 years later. It is the 585th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Adopt Me Trading Values’s breach included 4 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:

DataWhat it’s used for
PasswordsCriminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them.
UsernamesHalf of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.
IP addressesRoughly where you were when you used the service.

What to do

  1. Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Adopt Me Trading Values among them, without showing the data.
  2. Change your Adopt Me Trading Values password.If the account still exists, sign in at Adopt Me Trading Values (adoptmetradingvalues.com) and change it.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Distrust messages that mention Adopt Me Trading Values.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.

Timeline

  • : the breach, as best it can be dated.
  • : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 3 years later.

Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.

Similar breaches

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

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

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “Adopt Me Trading Values”, Have I Been Pwned, added 10 Feb 2025. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.