Apollo data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the July 2018 breach of Apollo. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Apollo data breach exposed 125,929,660 accounts from apollo.io in July 2018. The data taken includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and social media profiles and 4 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 5 Oct 2018, 2 months later. It is the 18th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Apollo’s breach included 8 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
| Social media profiles | A way to reach you with scams. |
| Employers | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Geographic locations | Roughly where you live. |
| Job titles | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Salutations | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Apollo among them, without showing the data.
- Distrust messages that mention Apollo.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 2 months later.
- : the entry was last updated.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Adapt, November 2018, 9.4 million accounts
- Eatigo, October 2018, 2.8 million accounts
- Data Enrichment Exposure From PDL Customer, October 2019, 622 million accounts
- ai.type, December 2017, 21 million accounts
- ixigo, January 2019, 17 million accounts
- EatStreet, May 2019, 6.4 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- apollo.io, Apollo’s website